My son killed Terre'blanche, says mother
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April 6, 2010, Tuesday
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THE mother of a 15-year-old murder suspect said yesterday that her son struck a white supremacist leader with an iron rod after the farmer refused to pay him, a slaying that has heightened racial tensions as South Africa prepares to host the World Cup.
"My son admitted that they did the killing," the mother said from her two-room home in Tshing township on the outskirts of Ventersdorp town.
She said she spoke to the teenager at Ventersdorp police station on Saturday after he turned himself in along with his alleged accomplice, a 28-year-old farm worker, following the slaying of Eugene Terre'blanche.
Police have refused to identify either of the suspects by name. Under South African law, a minor accused of any charge cannot be identified without permission from a judge. The two have been charged with murder and will appear in court today, police said.
Officials appear anxious to show they are swiftly handling the crime, which comes just 10 weeks before South Africa becomes the first African nation to host the football tournament.
Terre'blanche's slaying also comes at a time of heightened racial tensions.
Members of Terre'blanche's Afrikaner Resistance movement, better known as the AWB, have blamed African National Congress Youth leader Julius Malema, saying he spread hate speech that led to Terre'blanche's killing.
Malema sparked controversy last month when he led college students in a song that includes the lyrics "kill the Boer." Boer means farmer in Afrikaans, the language of descendants of early Dutch settlers, but is also used as a derogatory term for whites.
"My son admitted that they did the killing," the mother said from her two-room home in Tshing township on the outskirts of Ventersdorp town.
She said she spoke to the teenager at Ventersdorp police station on Saturday after he turned himself in along with his alleged accomplice, a 28-year-old farm worker, following the slaying of Eugene Terre'blanche.
Police have refused to identify either of the suspects by name. Under South African law, a minor accused of any charge cannot be identified without permission from a judge. The two have been charged with murder and will appear in court today, police said.
Officials appear anxious to show they are swiftly handling the crime, which comes just 10 weeks before South Africa becomes the first African nation to host the football tournament.
Terre'blanche's slaying also comes at a time of heightened racial tensions.
Members of Terre'blanche's Afrikaner Resistance movement, better known as the AWB, have blamed African National Congress Youth leader Julius Malema, saying he spread hate speech that led to Terre'blanche's killing.
Malema sparked controversy last month when he led college students in a song that includes the lyrics "kill the Boer." Boer means farmer in Afrikaans, the language of descendants of early Dutch settlers, but is also used as a derogatory term for whites.
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