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Zuma Urges Calm After White Supremacist Killed

   VOA News 04 April 2010

   South  African  President  Jacob  Zuma is appealing for calm after the
   killing of a white supremacist leader.
   In  a  statement  Sunday, Mr. Zuma condemned the murder of 69-year-old
   Eugene  Terre'Blanche, and urged South Africans to not let the killing
   spark racial hatred.
   Police  say  Terre'Blanche  was  bludgeoned  to death on his farm near
   Johannesburg  Saturday  by two workers.  The workers, ages 15 and 21,
   say Terre'Blanche had not paid them for work they did.

   South African President Jacob Zuma, 25 Mar 2010 (file photo)

AP

   South African President Jacob Zuma, 25 Mar 2010 (file photo)

   A police spokeswoman said the alleged attackers have been arrested and
   charged with murder.
   Terre'Blanche  was  the  founder  of the Afrikaner Resistance Movement
   that fought to prevent the end of apartheid in the early 1990s.
   In  recent years, he had called for creation of a whites-only republic
   in South Africa.
   Terre'Blanche  was  sent  to  prison  in  2001  for assaulting a black
   security guard.  He was released in 2004.

   Some information for this report was provided by AP, AFP and Reuters.

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