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Siphiwe Sibeko / Reuters
Chris Mahlangu (left) was found guilty of murdering white supremacist leader Eugene Terre'blanche, while Patrick Ndlovu was acquitted of the crime.
One of two farm workers charged with killing prominent South African white supremacist leader Eugene Terre'blanche in 2010 was found guilty on Tuesday, according to reports.
The court convicted Chris Mahlangu, 29, of murder but acquitted the second accused, Peter Ndlovu, who was just 15 at the time of the slaying, the BBC reported. Ndlovu, whose identity had been protected as a minor during the trial and was named for the first time Tuesday, was found guilty of housebreaking, Britain's Guardian newspaper reported.
Both had denied the charges.
Terre'blanche, co-founder of the far-right Afrikaner Resistance Movement (AWB) who sought to overthrow South Africa's black majority government, was bludgeoned and hacked to death at his farmhouse in Ventersdorp on April 3, 2010. He was found in his bed, his pants pulled down to reveal his genitals, The Guardian reported.
NBC News' partner ITV News' coverage of the Terre'blanche murder trial
Terre'blanche's former employees were charged with murder, attempted robbery and house breaking and aggravated robbery. Mahlangu had said that Terre'blanche had tried to rape him, the Guardian reported.
Siphiwe Sibeko / Reuters
Members of the Afrikaner Resistance Movement (AWB) react as supporters (not pictured) of the two men accused of hacking Terre'blanche to death chant slogans outside the court.
Fears that the case would spark political violence in a country still coming to terms with white minority rule, which ended 16 years ago, were not realized.
Accused appears in court in Eugene Terre'blanche murder trial
The killing did raise allegations of wage exploitation as well as questions about a sexual motive for the killing, but also accusations that the police botched the case, according to the BBC.
Wearing military uniforms, scores of AWB members camped out outside court, their trademark swastika-style flags planted in the ground, a BBC correspondent reported.
Meanwhile, supporters of the two farm-workers sang songs from the anti-apartheid struggle, according to the BBC.
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South Africa as a nation, has certainly degenerated over the last couple of decades. Mandella did his best to unite the country and make it prosperous for all but the ANC has really mucked it up since.
Probably best NOT to life in Africa if you're going to be a white supremacist, don't ya think?
I'm usually sympathetic towards victims of murder, but in this case, I've felt just about as much sympathy as I felt when news of the death of OBL, Gaddafi, and Sudam surfaced. I guess my heart just puts supremist, global terrorist and dictators in the same category.
Racism has no color, social, or ethnic boundaries. It is still wrong no matter who engages in it, and all are hurt by it in one form or another!
I agree and the ANC has pretty much completed what they set out to do, which was systemically hunt down raping and killing the whites. With one in four South African males admitting to rape, its not a place any woman should be in..
What category is that? The really cool avatar category?
karma is a bitch with no mercy.
Wild Bill, in case you can't quite distinguish between people of color, that is NOT Che Gueverra in my avatar. If it was, I would've chuckled at your sarcasm.
Bebop: "I'm usually sympathetic towards victims of murder, but in this case, I've felt just about as much sympathy as I felt when news of the death of OBL, Gaddafi, and Sudam surfaced. I guess my heart just puts supremist, global terrorist and dictators in the same category"
- - then you should take down your avatar, as Che is in the same category as the above that you mentioned. - -
Lucas, where do you see Che? If you notice, that is not Che as I just explained to Wild Bill. Even if it were, one's avatar is not reflection of one's comment. If that were the case, you would be a nobody which, in turn, I would not even be wasting my time responding to you.
When people are used and abused, they don't forget it easily. Being a white supremacist should be a crime too. In my mind it's a wash.
White supremacist or not, a murder is a murder.
Anonymous User some are good, this piece of trash and Osama's are great examples of good murders.
And, Save, what about all the bigots of the other races-and there are plenty. Should they be criminals for it or just whites. And seriously, putting this farmer in the same category as Osama?
Unbelievable, the other races' bigots are in the same bag as well, not just the whites. I know full well there are some.
In this case yes a murder is a crime, but if the white supremacist did try to rape that black man then he got what he deserved:"Thou shalt not sodomize".
Even Jeremiah Wright, being a Black Supremacist Leader, should be crime if you murder him. Just because you happen oppose the views of the person, does not give you a license to kill.
Oh, please. Kurt, try not to be dumber than is absolutely necessary. Jeremiah Wright is a former US Marine who risked his life for his country. I'd say he earned the right to criticize if he feels so inclined.
Oh please, pedestrian. Double standard much?
Please provide an example of my "double standard," unbelievable.
Wish someone could shut Wrights mouth for good...
Funny how he risked his life so that tools like you could say that out loud, bushay.
Death! (and the kid is now an adult, death to him too!)
blacks never do anything wrong no matter which country there in...
wow..now that's just , wow
Mary, a little racist are we?
I think Mary was being sarcastic.
South Africa will soon be a @!$%#hole, just like the rest of Africa.
Black can not run a stable government which grows and advances,not have allot of violance and haterd-there is no country like this now or ever will be...
Wow mary52. Is that your picture in the article? You should work on your grammar if you want people to take your ignorance seriously.
Wow, that's a twist. But the old adage, "what goes around comes around."
More black Africans moved to S. Africa during the height of apartheid than any other country on the continent. Why? It was safer, more prosperous and afforded more opportunities. Of course, it's racist to say that, even though it's the truth. While Paul Simon, Bruce Springsteen and their buddies were playing concerts against apartheid, we didn't hear a peep out of them when it came to the tens of thousands being murdered wholesale in Mozambique, Angola, Namibia, Rwanada, Somalia, etc. etc. etc. I guess it's ok for black Africans to slaughter each other, but if I white guy has a black servant, the world should be up in arms! Hypocrisy at its finest.
South africa is going down the crapper. The end of Apartheid didn't end the racism in the country, it just pointed it in the other direction. Now you've got the Boers being run off their Farmlands, or outright killed, the land being "re-possessed" by blacks in the country... unfortunatly they don't have clue one on what do do with it, so huge swaths of fertile farmlands are being left to rot and be reclaimed to the wild, while the equipment rusts, or is sold outright for a quick buck.
In the meantime, its not just black/white violence taking place, but black on black violence as well.. S.A. is the world captial for gang banging and rape. So much so that gang rapes are a common way for restless youth to spend a friday evening. Crime is rampant, HIV infection is through the roof. Anyone with half a brain and some cash are getting the Hell out. It is no wonder groups like the AWB form up: the government sure as hell ain't gonna protect you (in fact, it often turns a blind eye), so people gotta take it upon themselves to do so.
There are white people in Africa who have been murdered or attacked simply because of their skin color or religion and do not belong to any group identified as a supremacists organization. This problem has been going on for decades and goes far deeper than allegations that this resistance group are supremacists. In African countries where black people have gained control there has been instability famine and war. These problems make the minority whites easy targets for hatred by the black people there. The scales of justice do swing back and forth and the ongoing hatred of white people will one day cause a backlash that will go beyond these sporadic incidents.
What a country!
Stay away from it!
Fry these guys. To murder someone in S. Africa for being a white supremist (or that is their story) in this day and age when apartheid is long gone and a black man runs the country is just so ridiculous and such an excuse.
Terre'blanche was no saint, but I agree. It's been 18 years since apartheid. Unfortunatly, It'll probably be longer before it is not used as an excuse for the population's failings: just look at The USA... slavery has been dead and done for almost 150 yrs, its been 50 years after the civil rights movement, but we are still being hit over the head daily with the "black man's burden" and whitey's role in it.
Excuses, excuses. Throughout history people have been getting the short end of the stick, yet the blacks are the only one with you still owe me attitude.. Its time to stop living in the past and get on with the future, sadly that will never happen with all the race baiting we have in US..
Afrikaner Resistance Movement (AWB) is called the Tea Party in America.
Need more of this, please!
Will someone explain to dear Sam the difference between being kidnapped and emigrating? I guess once the slaves were free all was cool. Good thing that! Jim Crow - ain't a bourbon.
Africa was far better off under white European leadership than it is today. There were no genocidal killings in the white-managed countries. Today, Africa is a basket case. The majority of Africans simply do not have the native intelligence required for self governance. With unbridled immigration from third-world countries, the U.S. is rapidly approaching the point of no return, where third-world status will be inevitable and irreversible.
Europeans dragged them out of the stone age, and theyve been trying to get back ever since.
Angus-fox--You are so right,blacks being the fist humans on earth-the one who stayed many many years ago were still living lkie they did many many years ago-those who went north had to use the mind to survive,dealing with very cold weather so they kept inventing things to make life easyer to live-look what the White Man has invented-took man to the moon while black man took men to crime...
South Africa is much better off without him . I don't know what took them so long to kill him ... He was a man full of hate for blacks ... I hope the guy only get one year in prison.. I don't know why there was a trial .. This guy should be a national hero in South Africa.
I'm no fan of Terreblanche, but I think what you state here is reprehensible. Matter of fact, I find it frightening. Was Terreblanche ever convicted of a crime? Did he ever directly engage in violence? You are advocating the death penalty for what amounts to a "thought crime". You disagree with what he thought, therefore he deserved to die. Truly frightening.
Typical behavior for these people
South Africa is the saddest case of obvious corruption the world watches in silence. Mandela did his best but the ANC leadership afterwards fills their own pockets and the plight of the common South African, Black, White or whatever remains bad, if not worse. Their president showers after having sex with an HIV positive woman to wash the HIV off. His children, 20 in number and growing, wives and lovers set a horrible example of corruption with their lavish lifestyles, but the country continues to spiral downward as farm projects fail, South Africa imports food and the under/uneducated police force also falls to corruption and greed. The only thing that separates SA from the rest of Africa is the diamonds, platinum and other minerals the world needs. Otherwise after Aparthaid, the country would be no differen than the rest of Africa. South Africa lost their most brillant minds after Aparthaid as so many white teachers were fired, and white men were fired and lost jobs. Unfortunately ANC people are not educated and continue to line their pockets in the event the country fails and they can fly away and leave the rest to suffer. So much for Mandela and his dreams.
"He was found in his bed, his pants pulled down to reveal his genitals", "Mahlangu had said that Terre'blanche had tried to rape him, the Guardian reported."
Well isn't that what you would do finding two of your ex-worker's robbing your house, rape one of them?
The whole history of that country is a bloody mess, but it does have potential as a place to send wanna be racist skinhead's convicted of racial crime's, you know living the life, goood luck and don't forget to write!
No!
S. Africa is a forlorn hope. If it were not for their mineral wealth I think the rest of the world would have turned their back long ago. Anyone with any sense at all would get the hell out as fast s they could.
All whites should self deport, and let the blacks destroy themselfs.
who's gonna supply the weapons?
why do any of us care over here in the U.S.,it has no bearing on us so that some white guy in South Africa is dead
Genocide is acceptable if the victims are a White minority.
It is acceptable to kill nationalists and Christians as long as you apply the proper label of White Supremacist to them after the fact.
It is acceptable for the US government to support terrorist organizations such as the ANC as long as Hollywood has approved that the cause is 'hip' and PC.
Immigration is acceptable and we should adapt to immigration. That is, as long as the immigrants are not White and it is the White host country that adapts to their needs. If the immigrants are White than it is acceptable to murder them in their sleep because they do not belong there.
Besides, everyone knows South Africa has become a paradise of diverstiy and the standard of living for Blacks and Whites is much better now. There is no corruption. The military is much improved. The economy is best in the world. The White minority is treated very fairly and there have been no government sanctioned attrocities against the minority Boer farmers.
Diversity, it's utopian. USA is next. Support diversity aka European Genocide or die.