Julius killed Kenny..

On Saturday night, Eugene Terreblanche (unaffectionately known as “E.T.”), the leader of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) was murdered on his farm in Ventersdorp. The alleged motive for the attack was a pay dispute between him and his slayers – two African gentlemen, aged 21 and 16 year, who hacked and bludgeoned him to death, using your garden variety knobkerrie and panga.

Eugene Terreblanche was 69 when he died and will always remain one of the greatest Kenny Rogers lookalikes the world has ever seen.

Eugène Terre’Blanche and Kenny Rogers

We don’t get overly political here on 2oceansvibe, not because we’re gay, but because the ongoing soap opera bores us. When the leader of South Africa’s most celebrated white supremacist outfit is murdered by “blacks,” the boredom is somewhat disrupted. And when this happens at a time that his logical racial nemesis, the equally loud-mouthed ANC Youth League president, Julius Malema, is running around singing songs which cry, “Kill the boer,” it does become popular topical conversation.

Whilst the police are calling for calm and emphasising that the killing was over pay, and not in the least bit politically motivated, do you think the AWB give a fuck? No ways. To give up this much leverage? Don’t be daft! Finally, they have something. And it’s pretty goddamn big – they have a martyr.

Eugene Terreblanche is their Biko. And what good timing, the same weekend that Jesus Christ was killed.

Here’s a quick recap on who they are, if you’ve just joined us (morning!):

Say, where’d you get the idea for the design?

The Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (English: Afrikaner Resistance Movement) or AWB, is a far right political organisation and former paramilitary group in South Africa under the leadership of Eugène Terre’Blanche (1941-2010) until his death. They are committed to the restoration of an independent Boer republic or “Boerestaat” within South Africa. In their heyday they received much publicity both in South Africa and abroad as a white supremacist group.

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Whilst we may never know the truth, one thing’s for sure, the murderers (they confessed to police) are pretty much exactly within Julius Malema’s target market. And whether you like it or not – they would have known of that “Kill the boer” song. That’s more than enough for the AWB to chew on. Eugene had always described himself as a “boer” (farmer).

Now seriously, who phones the police when you’ve just killed someone on a farm and no-one has seen you do it? Perhaps someone misguided and confident enough to think they have done the right thing? Someone looking for reward, even?

And to hack his body up into itty bitty pieces? Shit…. from where I’m sitting, there’s a lot of anger there! If you were just going to kill someone, you’d kill them. Bang! Unless, of course, you wanted to be a hero?

Julius Malema – called for the masses to
“Kill the boer”

Ironically, Julius Malema is currently in Zimbabwe, from whence he has applauded the economic policies of Zimbabwe leader, Robert Mugabe, confirming that he would like to implement the same white farm confiscation techniques, in South Africa.

Nice – great timing. I think I know a little boy who is heading for a speed wobble.

Malema may well be arrested for the murder of Eugene Terreblanche. I mean how different is this to me hiring an assassin to kill you?I should go down as well, right?

Controversial doesn’t even begin to describe the shit going down here. And if Malema gets lynched, I wouldn’t immediately point to the AWB. Conspiracy theorists would suggest another political organisation with a three letter acronym, also starting with the letter A.

Where were you when you heard Eugene Terreblanche was dead?

Read the BBC’s obituary for Eugene Terreblanche here.

And make ABSOLUTELY SURE you watch this interview with Eugene Terreblanche, conducted by the genius that is Louis Theroux, as a part of his Weird Weekends series. It gets messy..

[thanks perwez]

ps. Click here for a recap on the whole Jani Allen drama.