Thank you for insightful journalism portraying the advances of our great nation, versus sensationalism that just portrays the worse case scenario. South Africa has many unresolved issues we need to work through, but we come a long way in our young democracy. A GREAT country, with GREAT people from different languages and cultures, RICH in heritage. Make sure you DO NOT MISS OUT by attending the soccer world cup!!!

So its OK to hate blacks in an African country or what?

I am at a loss to comprehend how a murder shows RSA's advance. South Africa has been in a low intensity civil war since 1994, when de Klerk handed over power. It rates second in murders only to Colombia, which puts it behind its' neighbours. Most of the ANC's leaders has sang calls to kill and perhaps they ought to be tried in an International Court. If you instruct people to kill, be it by song or plain tongue there is a price to pay in the justice system, but certainly in eternity.

I disagree. The power of the 'old hate' is certainly not gone. It is festering. It is naivete to think anything has changed in people's minds. The 'old hate' is is just awaiting an opportunity to rear it's ugly head again.......that is why you still have the anachronistic racist AWB as a recognised institution 16 years after democratic majority rule was instituted.

Interesting article.

Funny that guy called CNN "communist", they're owned by a major corporation just like every other major news network in the U.S.

Well, it seems these 'old' Afrikaners were right after all.

At least during apartheid most anyone could work, did not fear starvation, and the infrastructure was operable.

Now:

“When the country changed from Rhodesia to Zimbabwe, we were very excited,” one man, Kizita, told me in a village of mud-walled huts near this town in western Zimbabwe. “But we didn’t realize the ones we chased away (whites) were better and the ones we put in power (blacks) would oppress us.”

SA is now a morbid violent land: broke, destitute and futureless: just the way this mincing writer likes it - as long as its the white people who are powerless.

what i can say is When it goes well with the righteous, the city rejoices, and when the wicked perish there are shouts of gladness
you u get the point

If I'm not mistaken, South Africa, the so-called rainbow nation will be hosting the World Cup this summer?

S.A will always suffer from racism and nothing Im afraid can be done about it..

As much as I wish to share the optimism of a new dawn for South Africa, I am still reminded of the fact that AWB has never ever RENOUNCED its neo-nazi boer stance!! This is a sure sign that the boer-minded whites are bent on perpetuating their inhuman & highly dangerous objectives! It is but a time bomb! For I believe one day, a group of non-whites may as well come up with a similar thing but this time against the boers. How I wish for the spirit of non-racial S.Africa, advanced by Mr. Nelson Mandela & De Clerk and equally progressive-minded South Africans is wholly embraced by AWB and other crooked minds! A new peaceful & harmonious non-racial South Africa is both desirable and possible as long as every one in SA believes in it and is ready and willing to do his/her part! It can be done let each and every South African across the colour & any other divide, play his/her part!

Yes, South Africa is maturing.
The comments made in your report are correct.
South Afria is moving in line with World peace.

Send me news updates for south africa

I lived and worked in Pretoria in the early 70's. Apartheid was still in control and it was so unusual for me as an American. It was not as apparent as when I had first visited South Africa in 1969, with the separate benches and water fountains. But in 1973, I was still refused service when I wandered in to the Nie-blanke side of the postoffice and was only helped when i went out and came back in the 'right' door. I've heard that crime is rampant, especially rape. And I'm thinking I couldn't drive solo around the country like I did back in 1973. But I'm glad that the Terreblanches are waning as a group. I wouldn't wish ill on anybody, let alone their death. But if the old Afrikaaners are losing their battle for a white province, I don't think that's a bad thing.

Its sad to know the world only see a small part of whats the truth in the new south africa....as in most parts of the world their is crime and i suppose it will always be that way.....in south africa crime/murders is all about hate against the white minority....if a murder takes place in this country rape/brutal ways are alwyas a part of the murder.....most of us (white boere)is expats as the laws have change in such a way that white people are now the target....just go and do your homework and you will see who is the true racist in south africa.......

south africa will become the same as a Zim when all the white farmers has been removed from their land and now the world is saying nothing.......every one in this world had a problem with south africa and now that it is a democratic country and manage by black peolple it falls apart....

i dont understand how the world can stand and watch as the white minority is getting murdered .....2 farmers a week is getting murdered and nothing is happening.....our farmers wifes are getting raped and that ok????

i do believe your media is very one sided as why dont we see huge reports on this .....now its ok because the country belongs to the anc....look @ malema and his comments about the boer ( they say in their meetings and on national tv to kill the boer) and no one condem them???

i wander who is the true racist here????

Why is CNN insisting on Labling this group as Neo Nazi. They ARE NOT neo nazi. Nor white supremacist. They are white seperatist. That flag isnt a nazi flag, in case that gave your media that idea. I would like to think its that an not just a misleading lie to serve your own racial bias ideas to incite others against a cause?

apartheid should have never ended, countries like zimbarbwe and south africa would have been much better off with it

None can understand South Africa better than the South Africans themselves. Everybody else can merely try.

However, I believe that all human beings are fundamentally the same in respect of needs and wants, emotions and feelings, fears and worries, joys and pleasures. All these vary only in degree and form as molded by our environment, our geography, our weather.

Alan Paton's 'Cry, the Beloved Country' despite its distinctive characters that are pertinent to South Africa is not much different from the characters of Mikhail Shokolov's One Man's Destiny.

They both depict sufferings and sorrows from living their lives in another time and in another place. The circumstances are different but the pains are the same.

From the ashes of personal losses stirs the indomitable will of Man to overcome invariably without fanfare and remonstrations but with quiet stoicism and dignity.

The acceptance of one's lot and destiny and, as with Stephen Kumalo agonising alone quietly in the hills of Johannesburg the execution of his son on the morrow.

The irony and the symbolism of the dawn of a new day bringing with it the death of a young life is both poignant and powerful. If South African society has morphed and matured into peaceful coexistence , then nothing has not been in vain.

Another case of a group of people fighting against the winds of change.The apartheid system at that time gave the AWB a sense of security to vent their racial hatred on anything non white. But now that apartheid is more or less a thing of the past, and with the death of their leader Eugene Terre Blanche, the AWB should take the hint that this kind of manifestation belongs to a bygone era, and whether they like it or not, they should move on. In any case I believe that the future generation of afrikaaners will not embrace racial hatred, in the same manner as the future generation of blacks, dont be surprised to see in the years to come more and more interracial marriage in South Africa as a result of a different era of thinking.

I was also there. I am not a right winger, but support the Afrikaners in their struggle against violent attacks on farmers. We have lost about 3500 farmers in the last 15 years due to violence. The knowledge and experience of those farmers cannot be replaced, but more important, the persons themselves, fathers, husbands, grandfathers and so on. We feel that the ANC is not hearing our pleas, and are taking a passive stance on it. Julius Malema is destroying what so many have fought and died for, and nobody from the ANC is stopping him. We have had enough and have reach the end of our patience. We belong in this country as well. We have also paid for it in blood, sweat and tears. Mother Africa has brought me into life and raised me. This is my home.

Rain or shine South Africa is sitting on a huge gunpowder barrel and only time and wisdom will tell wether this racial hatred , ravaged nation will ever overcome its old demons and fully embrace the challenges of the 21st century.As much as the blame game on both sides is a convenient excuse ,Whire Folks' undeterred arrogance seems to do little to tone down the situation..Live and let go is the only way out ! Nobody is gonna kick you out of your own Country where you are living in large and proud stil ! C'mon 1

I lov ur programs so much pls keept it up thank u and GOD bLS.

If the white breath thesame air that the blacks breath and come to the knowledge that air is thesame everywhere,then they will know that there is no need for race fraka . Let peace take it place, we are one.

Great article. Congratulations.

" soth africa is belong to african not white settlers !!!"

The AWB is not a neo-Nazi movement. Yes, they are definitely a racist group, but they are not specifically neo-Nazi. Also, what you refer to as a three-armed swastika is actually three 7's. This is because seven is seen as a holy number, as opposed to six, especially triple six which is the number of the beast and refers to evil. I know it is difficult to understand racial problems in foreign countries, but if CNN chooses to write about these problems they should make a better effort of getting their facts straight before giving the rest of the world inaccurate information.

Its nice that CNN only gives a white western perspective. So much sympathy to murderers and psychopaths.

I am from South Africa

I wish that they can throw this old flag away. A lot has changed in the past 15 years. God has blessed this country for all its people, black and white. Today even after all of the hatespeech and anger that has surfaced by black and white, I still do feel that we have came along way and I still believe it will be better for everyone in the next 15 years....

Finally someone from the international media writes a sensible article about this whole incident. Most whites and Afrikaners never supported or even respected Eugene Terre'blanche, but his death was a shock to many, due to the crime situation and the racially loaded hatred that some ANC officials preach towards whites and farmers. Obviously whites (and many blacks even) are fed up with the ANC and their insensitive behaviour regarding race issues. However most South Africans, white and black have learned a lot of respect for each other and these incidents will not lead to a racial war as so many foreign media outlets speculate. We have moved away from racial hatred, and even the far right wing AWB, has proven to me that they have also adapted slightly, yet some still may have a long way to go. Very well written article!

"the power of the old hate has gone" Correct perhaps ,but is it being replaced with a new hate which may accelerate the mass murder of remaining whites ? Even in South Africa, many people dont understand the dangers of farming in the face of criminal elements.

The AWB are not Neo Nazis. That is a ridiculous claim.
Terreblanche never advocated a level of violence like the Nazis advocated. He never advocated a wholesale extermination of anyone.

He represented a people who were out numbered by english speakers ( who had put the afrikaans women and children in concentration camps where tens of thousands died during the anglo boer war.) and outnumbered 10 to 1 by blacks who sing songs of violence like "kill the boer – they are rapists" – a song that is sung by the ANC leadership today.

The international community will always cry racism when perpetrated by whites. Whites in SA are the minority.

Terreblanche was misguided. However, if South Africa does follow the rest of Africa into a morass of backwardness, disease, death and human rights abuses unfortunately Terreblanche may have been correct when he said that ceding power to the ANC would result in such catostrophe.

This has happened in almost every African country post colonialism.

I am a South African citizen as well as an Afrikaner that left the country because of the feeling of victimization, polarisation, fear and despair for my life and future. However I am not angry or bitter, life is too short to poison your well being and soul with negativity. I now live in the Balkans but every single day after work I read the biggest newspapers on line e.g. The Beeld, News24, The Citizen, The Sunday Times, Rapport, Mail & Guardian etc. I know what is happening in the country and I speak to my family in South Africa on a regular basis.

I am not a radicalist or a nationalist and never supported the AWB. The represent a small number of the Afrikaner community and even smaller part of the white South African community. However, I believe that their fears are legitimate. I don't want to go into detail on my theories on this forum, but I just want to make a few comments. South Africa is on a "Totalitarian sprint" (here I would like to quote Mr. David Icke) towards the same chaos as in Zimbabwe. All the things that have taken place since the mid 1980's that lead to the demise and now virtual distinction of the white community in Zimbabwe, is currently playing out in South Africa.

This is where my concern lies. The ANC made unrealistic promises that were never attainable to lure the common, ignorant and gullible masses. I do not mean this in an insulting or derogative way because the sad reality is that up to that point in S.A., the percentage of schooled blacks was very low. Here one needs to have a bit of an understanding of politics and economics to know, that South Africa, being heavily sanctioned and isolated by the world at large, were very dependant on credit and loans from the neutral and friendly countries. This meant that when the ANC took over the government it also took over the huge debt burden as well. So when the time came to start delivering on the promises of free houses, free water, free electricity, free education and free health care to name a few, there was just not enough resources available to deliver on the scale that was promised. The fact that corrupt councillors and officials saw this opportunity the reward themselves financially for their contribution to the struggle, did not make things any easier. This wide spread and severe case of self enrichment added to the speedy depletion of the resources.

15 years after the liberation of the country and the establishing of a free and fair South Africa in a celebrated democracy under the new and popular slogan: "South Africa – a better life for all", very few have indeed seen that promised better life. This benefited only a minority of black people and most of them were the comrades of the ANC. So when the masses started questioning the commitment of the government to deliver on its promises, the government started making excuses instead of taking responsibility. The excuses have always been – and will always be just like in Zimbabwe – that the whites still control everything. Or the whites do not want to share the wealth of the country. Peoples anger, who are illiterate, uneducated and ignorant that have been waiting for 15 years for basic necessities such as a flushing toilet, can (and it is happening) very easily be diverted and misguided. And make no mistake – the people are angry. Just look how frequent and violent protests about poor service delivery have become. Corrupt counsellors and municipal manager’s houses are being torched on numerous occasions. So by shifting the blame onto the white people, they are being wrongfully targeted.

For the writer to say that "the power of the old hate has gone" is an insult to every white South African and makes a mockery of the deaths of every single victim of racially motivated crime. Christi van der Westhuizen wrote an interesting article that stated that never in our history has the citizens been so angry with one another than now. Also, a closer look at the brutality of attacks on citizens will show that there is an underlying feeling of hatred and anger and a desire for revenge. Victims are being tortured for hours on end. They are being burned with irons in their faces. Husbands, boys and men are being forced to watch the rape of their wives, mothers and girlfriends. The list goes on and on...

What infuriates me most when I read articles such as the one above is the unbalanced view from where it originates. I read a lot of newspapers and I see this very often. I will by no means declare myself an expert, but I am Afrikaans and I have lived in South Africa my entire life so I think I have a fairly good understanding of the people. We see to often that people write articles without UNDERSTANDING the facts. It is easy to write about the facts, but is something else to understand the facts. Once reporters and writers understand the facts and the underlying circumstances, there will come a far more balanced (a perfectly balanced view is impossible as every writer does write to state his or her opinion) view of the situation that gives the reader INSIGHT into the issues involved as well as the causes.

So I beg of every future writer/reporter that writes about South Africa to be fair in their viewpoints and to balance the views that you express to equal measure and not to the demographic representivity of the country.

Kind regards,

HENNIE JOOSTE Jnr.

"Neo-Nazi".. a term used when you strive for a "homeland" for your nation. Does that thus qualify Yasser Arafat as a neo-nazi because he wanted a Palestinian homeland?

In the Balkans, in the old Soviet Union, Somalia and Eritrea, practically everywhere else, the international community (including the UN) support, even with force, the right of nations to their own homelands.

But not in South Africa. No, there peoples of different culture, different heritage, and yes different race has to be melted into one "nation".

Can anyone explain?

I was shock and was lost without a word for minutes. Looking from the Tv clips to the burial of the south african AWB leader and seeing some dumb guys standing and hold the neo nazi flag. It is a shame to us human. We've come along way with technologies, but some of us still uncivilized with the human race.
Shame on us for att there still some people out there thinking that they are the master race. It is my thinking that anyone with the master race idea be put away in jail. Be you white or black.
They guys was there standing and giving a nazi parade, but they've forgotten that they are still in south Africa. It would've been nice if they had move down to Germany with there nazi believes cos Germany is the birth place for the Nazi

Your reporters really did not do their home work. There was more guns than they would be able to count at ET's funeral. Please have a look at the rest of Africa each of the countries that either the English or French used to govern and was then given back to the "Black people" which one can you name that is not corrupt and is self sustainable. They murder their own without any remorse what do you think they feel for us whites? Or do you think they go around asking each white person if they are Afrikaans speaking people before they slaughter you. No my friend you live in a world of your own if this is yur thoughts. Please send your people to come to South-Africa to attend the 2010 World Foot Ball, and lets see how manny of them will be going home alive. You can not even trust our police. Have a look at the links below..We are not going to stand back anymore.

http://www.thezimbabwemail.com/zimbabwe/4904.html

http://www.thezimbabwemail.com/zimbabwe/4955.html

This minority group is not at all a reflection of how the average white South African feels about this country. The old SA flag is a disgrace to the new nation and the people that fly it are holding onto the past. The average member of a group like the AWB is poor and threatened by what blacks bring to society. They lived under Apartheid in a protected environment where jobs were secured by virtue of race. Not so any more!

In South Africa 3400 white farmers were murdered since 1994 when Apartheid stopped. What does that tell you. We as whites are not welcome in Africa. The blacks took the land of the white farmers in Zimbabwe, Lesotho and the rest of Africa and they are dying of hunger. There are more racism now in South Africa than before and you people want to come and watch the soccer. Ive got news for you. People are murdered daily for cellphones, cars and even for a few cents. There will be no benefitsf rom the soccer for the people of South Africa, only the politicians will drive more and more expensive cars like Malema and live a high lifestyle while the other blacks are dying of hunger. The Afrikaners build South Africa and gave it away . Our future is threatened.

What has happened is sad. My heart goes out to every-one ,that has been affected by these killings in S-africa.The world out there doesn't realise ,what living in S-Africa means. The president with 20 children,youth leader singing hatred songs- not a good reflection for the world -cup soccer coming up.We will keep on praying.

black have ruined that country. it is sad.

Good article Hamilton.

Just a pity people do not understand what you mention at the very start. The AWB is not supported by the majority of Afrikaners. Yet, what happened just helped everyone to stand together as more than 3000 white farmers were murdered and mostly tortured by black South Africans. The world, conveniently, did not speak out. Out hope is that now the world will become more aware. It is such a pity some ignorant liberals unfamiliar with SA culture, see it as we had it coming. They so easily forget we are but 8%. A minority, where if similar things happened anywhere else in the world it would have been big news. Political correctness? No. Double standards and spineless.

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It is the typical one sided race rhetoric that got us into this mess in the first place. The inability of the media and government to educate the masses that there are two sides to this racism, just added to this hate.

The South African government in the form of Minister of Police Nathi Mthethwa rightly said that "Farm and rural killings should not be politicised and all murders should be treated equally". He further stated that ""We do not see it as anything else political or racist, we see it as just crime."

So my question, thus the reason for this article: "Are all incidents treated equally,
and is all crime, "just crime"?

Firstly, let me give a brief summary to those who are not familiar with the South African government system. In South Africa the government system works like in any other country where there is a democracy.
The newest census figures states that 79.7% of the population is black, followed by whites 9.1% , Coloureds (mixed race) 8.8%, and the remainder 2.4% are categorised as Indian or Asian. In other words it is the opposite of the United Kingdom or United States. Minorities are protected in these 1st world countries and any attacks on minorities are dealt with in a harsh fashion by the media and government.
In South Africa, this is where things get a bit complicated for some strange reason when it comes to be a government that represent everyone on a fair and equal basis.

To start, let me give some examples of racism in South Africa. Last year an unfortunate case came to light where white, minority, students at the University of the Orange Free State shamelessly put black workers through an initiation. (The video can be found on Youtube.) The ladies were treated in a disrespectful way and as such the behaviour of these students were criticized, and rightly so. The incident was all over the news, locally and internationally. Most black people in South Africa became extremely angry which would be understandable with some ANC members using the issue to their selfish purposes, which just helped to encourage more racial hatred.

Let's go back another year, where a young (white) boy, traumatised by a personal incident of a farm attack, took matters in his own hands by going into a township and murdering black township dwellers indiscriminately. It was a cowardly act and once again made world headlines. The boy's actions received harsh treatment from the law and once again South Africans were up in arms and some politicians and parties played the race card. Inciting more hate.

Another year back, a white male with two black accomplices threw a worker into a lions den to get rid of him. An awful incident which should get everything justice throws at these perpetrators. The incident made international headlines and was shown as an example of a racist incident because one perpetrator was white while his accomplices that were black were disregarded. Politicians of the government were outspoken about this murder and we still hear this today, in forums, debates, as a prime example of "white on black" racism.

So you will agree with me when I say that the above examples are not crime but have a racial intend?

To South Africans and the world, the problem in South Africa seems to be a specific race.
Or at least that is what we are made to believe. My following question would be, when last, if ever, did you hear about similar incidents as above, but with the roles changed? I am not talking about "just" crime. I am talking where it's clear racism like the examples above were involved?

Chances are you never heard anything. Ever. You also will not hear anything due to the media, political correctness and some individuals within the South African government that still think it's at 'war'. Individuals with selfish personal agendas or revenge. To say I make this up is like saying humans do not have fear. Its human. I am not saying it's the whole SA government but to say there are no people with hidden agendas are very naïve.

I will give examples of where I see racist incidents against whites in South Africa which made an impact on me over a period of time of the unfairness of these incidents. There are so many, as to put them all here would take me days and probably leave most of you with "post traumatic stress" reading through all the stories.

So here are similar, true, stories but with the perpetrators switched.

David Jones, of the Daily Mail describes the brutal assault of a white woman, Mrs. Ame Brown, in her Johannesburg home, in the absence of her husband, who was working a night shift. Mrs. Brown's two young sons were bound at the wrists and forced at gunpoint to watch by the four-strong black gang which had broken into their flat as their mother was violated in turn by each of the gang members. Says Jones: "As the first man made way for the second, he spat out the hate-filled words Ame, an Afrikaner, will never forget: "For years you Boers always took from us. Now we're taking from you."In fact, Ame Brown worked as a care assistant looking after mainly black children at a Johannesburg home for youngsters. But her work on behalf of such an underprivileged, have-not section of the population obviously cut no ice with her assailants. Her race was all that mattered as far as they were concerned.

Lambert Theron, 20, Kempton Park Wimpy manager – CCTV filmed this young Afrikaner's last moments: being hacked to death in a revenge-murder by two black co-workers – who accused him of 'lying like all white men do'.

Then there is Jock de Gouveia? This elderly gentleman died after robbers dragged him for some kilometres on a rope behind his bakkie.(Pick-up)His face was totally disfigured. The police caught the three perpetrators after one was caught having Mr. de Gouveia's sim card and TV in his possession.

I want to ask. Is it "just crime" because something was stolen, or is it just a convenient excuse? Do you really have to torture, humiliate, murder or even rape your victim for a cell phone or television? Is this "Just crime" Or mere an excuse by some to brush the seriousness of these crimes under the carpet?

One of the most shocking recent examples in 2009 was that of two anti-white racist crimes involving the torture-murders of Alice Lotter, 77, and her daughter Helen, 57, which caused a wave of abhorrence amongst the entire white community because of its incredible cruelty. The women, both frail, were tortured to death at their farm in Allenridge in the Free State on April 1, 2009. According to forensic evidence, the Lotter mother and daughter died excruciatingly painful deaths: First tortured by being stabbed with broken glass bottles into their vaginas; one of the women also had her breasts cut off while she was still alive – and then both women's blood, police forensic experts found, had been used to paint the ANC's anti-Afrikaner hate slogan 'Kill the Boer Kill the Farmer' on the walls of their homestead.

The list of crimes against "white" minorities, victims of murder and torture goes on.

Where is the media, other than the small column on the 3rd page of the newspaper? The national or international outcry? Where is the outcry from the government, or their leadership or lack there of to deal with these issues on a fair basis? Is it because you do not know? Do not care? Or is it because you know, and only care when it is not one of your own, yet only shout "racist" when it's a specific race? Are we so brain washed, politically correct that we are unable as human beings to treat things in a balanced way?
Or are we so indoctrinated by mass media, becoming sheep of "popular general opinion", or too scared, even lazy, to travel the lesser road of doing research and reaching out to people from other races? Maybe they have a point when they complain, yet are immediately silenced with the word "racist".

During 1999 the South African infantry has been rocked by the murder of seven individuals, six officers and one civilian by Twenty-eight-year old Lt Matubela, after losing his salary from repeated misconduct, went on a rampage in the base. His targets were only whites while not shooting at any other race. What was interesting about this case was that the government said it was racism. But, not racism from Lt Matubela, but from his colleagues!

The victims becomes the 'perpetrators', and the perpetrator, the true racist, get away with it. What does this say about our society? Or where we are heading? Though this was a military incident it is still interesting looking at the dynamics in which 'racism' is sold to the people.

The majority are the ones who tolerate crime, there for we much judge the racial tolerance of criminals. At night we can only pray that we would not be murdered by somebody with a vindictive racial attitude. We do not get to vote on the attitude towards crime, yet we are told that it is not geared towards us. "It is "only" crime. We have to take the word of the majority, that criminals do not use racial bias. In other words: "Criminals are just criminals and incapable of being racists too, unless of course they are part of the minority". Everyone else is, well, "Just criminals, doing "just crime"; this is what the statics and some government officials make us believe.

The only ones that believe these officials are the uninformed or the racists themselves that roll their heads gleefully the other way.

The media seems to believe that these allegations of hate crimes or racism are all fabricated lies. These crimes have been continuing since 1994 and are ever on the increase, to such worrying statistics that GenocideWatch.org, founded by Gregory Standon, is very concerned.

The South African government does what everyone government in power does when there is a crises, by playing it down by minimizing the seriousness of the matter. A few years ago it was also done with crime. "What crime": it was asked by the then President Mbeki? Today we see the same cycle but this time "the what", was replaced with "the just".

When will people, both black and white open their eyes and see some of these murders for what it is not. Not general crime, like theft and murder but where the victim of one race is tortured by someone from another race.

It is definitely NOT "Just crime".

The question needs to be asked. When is crime not crime anymore?

Are we as individuals, organisations, media or government so blinded by our prejudices and colour coded eye patches, that we only cry out when the victim is one race the perpetrator another?

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing" – Edmund Burke

This article probably asks more questions than to give answers, but the sole purpose is to make you think. Everyone is not as equal as some people make things out to be. Maybe you see this already, but then I might ask, why are you silent?

In order for human kind to evolve to the next level, we will need to look at these things on an equal basis and treat them as such. If not, we are just re-inventing the wheel of racism, with the roles changed.

One last question is why should these things be dealt with on an equal basis?

My answer is, if you do not, it creates more hate from one group against another because of ignorance and the lack of direction from leaders. These type of hate crimes are becoming more and more by the day because people are not educated by the government leaders or media,to realize it is not one specific group that is to blame, but that its a sickness which affects all.

So you are this out of touch?
For years a minority steal from the majority using despicable excuses and now want a piece of heaven without paying what they owe?

You build heaven, it does not fall from the sky.

That's only the beginning... just behave yourself and thing will be all right , as you surely remember centuries, years and months ago million of black people were killed and no-one says anything about it. If you need a state for your own go back to Europe to create your own state...
Do wanna fight trust me you'll lose.

The circumstances surrounding the death of Eugene Terblanche remain a mystery as new reports point to an alleged homosexual relationship between the white supremacist and one or both of his alleged killers.

If this allegation turns out to be true,it will rock the core of his neo-Nazi movement and make a mockery of his persuit of racial purity.

If it turns out to be false, it will escalate the already deep suspicions of the white supremacists and give them cause to mobilize against the majority government.

These are tense days for race relations in South Africa. Fortunately, the majority of South Africans black and white do not subscribe to extreme political views.

What a blessing in disguise, to bring bl/wh
together and not have any physical conflict.
Yes we have a long way to go..however, once
we all act as a solid nation, accepting and
healing differences, will we become a wonderful new South Africa.

Interesting article. As a black South African living abroad for the past 10 years. I have realized that the white-black South African struggle is a universal struggle the world still does not know how to embrace. It has become easier to recognize and easier to talk about. There has been an awakening, particularly amoung the younger generations.

This was a really beautiful article and I am certain that many Afrikaners would appreciate the sense of level-headedness displayed here. South Africans of every colour are constantly bombarded with idiotic, completely illogical inflamatory statements made by people who should know better, and many people believe that those statements were at least partially to blame for Terreblanche's murder in the first place.

Terreblanche's murder has reverberated through the South African community at large and has elicited emotional responses from practically every corner. The effort taken to keep his funeral from turning into the same kind of fiasco that is so often seen at events attended by supporters of those public figures guilty of the inflamatory statements mentioned before has to be respected.

It would have been easier than one might expect to allow the more militant portions of the Afrikaner community free reign to cause havoc at this event, but instead they displayed the sense of control and respect that Afrikaners have always shown their elders and either left their miltant ways at home – or showed the good grace to not arrive at the funeral in the first place and embarrass them with their hooliganism. The Afrikaners I know simply wouldn't tolerate that kind of behaviour.

Perhaps other communities could learn a thing or two about controlling their supporters from this experience...

You are right. For you it was easy because you are not Black!!!

Us Blacks were not alllowed only a few Journalist who also felt uncomfortably.

And how that is improvement I dont know.

You should ask the Black Workers how respectful that Neo Nazi Group of Afrikaners is!

Them carrying that APARTHEID Flag brings tears to my eyes!!!

What our people were killed under!!!

And what that AWB represents!!!

Only you can see that as improvement!!!

The black majority needs to rise up and chase all these hate groups out of S. Africa once and for all. They took to long to kill that hate monger. They should kill all the Nazis one by one. Its not a fight they can win.

Neo-Nazi??? In case you missed it, the headline read "Neo-Nazi's Funeral Shows New SA" What makes him a neo Nazi?? Besides, of course, the bigotry of the blogger???

Keep your Censorship!!!

I cannot figure out these whites (Boers), they want us (of African decent) to forget our liberation songs, but everywhere they entrench themseves (bars, halls, etc) their (old SA) flag and others symbols are on display. Who if fooling who?

I don't the idea of the hate being gone..racial tension continues to exist. The system creates poverty, the black minority, and when the AWB contiues to exist, and advocate the same policies as before..it's a recipe for disaster. South Africa has to go through the motions, through the process of reconciliation every other African country has gone through. It was not handled well at all in Zimbabwe, but the intention is clearly dominant in the ANC, expecially with Malema spending time with Mugabe, and then talking withouth control. The difference is that South Africans are not afraid to kill, and Zimbabweans are a peaceful people. If South Africa goes down the same road, I only fear what effect this could have on the "Rainbow Nation". There is SO MUCH more to lose. South Africa is the hope of the continent. AWB power has shrunk, but is it's mere existence not enough to strike trouble? Where is South Africa going??

A very insightful point of view but I think it is unfair to try to take a "snapshot" of the changes in our country at such an event. I live in Cape Town which is much more representative. Even though there is still a degree of seperation between different cultural and race groups, it is by choice and most groups are able to function well together in society. Latent racisms is still with us but as people become better educated and more informed about our differences and similarities it is becoming less prevalent and will ultimately fade away into history. I have hope for my beautiful country and all of our people.

It is strange that the South African media translates the word BOER as farmer. Yes it also means farmer. Just as the word DICK is also a name. In the apartheid era a black person was known as a kafir, similar to other words in other countries like: coon, etc. This word is now baned in South Africa. The black people did not have a "degrading" word for white man and it just so happened that they started to use the word boer. Thus the translation of: "kill the boer" does not mean "kill the farmer" it means "kill the whites". Just think about it; it does not make sense to kill farmers. Its a profession of blacks and whites.

The real South African situation to which the world prefers to turn a blind eye. There are two sides to a story, please hear ours. Many of our people were killed in concentration camps ect. We don't hold a grudge or go about killing and raping people. The apartheid struggle is over for many years now, and it ended because white people were fed up and against the apartheid government, thats the only reason apartheid ended. White South Africans voted that it should end, just before the elections in 1994. I know people are quick to say that we deserve this, but as I understand it there were very little countries who didn't suppress some race in their history. They were forgiven, why not us too...

Please hear our story and don't judge us – After all it's your people's investments that are also at stake

Here are true news happenings not shared with the world: Judge for yourself.

http://www.thezimbabwemail.com/zimbabwe/4955.html

In the following link: There were no apartheid in the UK why is there a debate on the genocide of white people in the UK? Also not the comment of Jacob from Pretoria, South Africa, as it blue prints the current South African situation to the letter.

http://www.thelabourparty.org.uk/html/genocide1.html

For more proof of genocide: Google farm murder photo's

3368 White South Africans brutally killed on their farms. See for yourself why people feels "a constant sense of fear."

Its good to see the media and the reporting of events is as one sided as ever.

It is just mind boggling that these men shot and killed black civilians as they were protesting the hand-over of power......after 3 of them got shot by police.....instanteniously their attitude changed.

So, who said violence is not the solution?

People only fear wht they dnt know and the black fear the whites and whites the blacks because of ignorance ,i am a colord south african i am nt considerd whte and nt black and i realised tht i dnt find my identity in my race because there is only 1 race the human race ET died i believe tht we as south africans should come togeather and work towords unity because where there is unity there is power for change .