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TerreBlanche To be released from jail

07-06-2004, 05:25
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3772693.stm


Terreblanche set for jail release


Terreblanche: Controversial leader
South African far-right leader Eugene Terreblanche, jailed for attempted murder, will be released from prison next week, a government official said.
Terreblanche has served more than half of a five-year term for attacking a black security guard.

The flamboyant head of the Afrikaner Resistance Movement will be freed on parole on 11 June, the official said.

Terreblanche's movement was a fierce opponent of the end of white rule in South Africa.

'Good behaviour'

"Terreblanche will be released on parole next Friday and will serve the remainder of his service under correctional supervision," said government spokesman Sarie Peens.

He was jailed in March 2001 after being convicted of trying to kill security guard Paul Motshabi in 1996.

He worked really hard on the prison farm and had good relations with his fellow inmates

Sarie Peens, government official

Mr Motshabi was so severely beaten he was left paralysed and permanently brain damaged.

Terreblanche was also found guilty of assaulting a petrol station attendant.

Ms Peens said Terreblanche had behaved well in prison.

"He worked really hard on the prison farm and had good relations with his fellow inmates," she said.

In the 1980s and early 1990s, Terreblanche's AWB - known for its military uniforms, neo-Nazi insignia and horse-back parades - campaigned to preserve white rule in South Africa and advocated white supremacist ideas.

Its fortunes however have declined since 1993 when supporters crashed an armoured vehicle into a building where talks on South Africa's transition to from apartheid to democracy were being held.

Terreblanche's lawyer said his client's release would kick-start the AWB's revival.





FWS COMMENT: Why would the lawyer say that? Whose side is he on? Of course it will kick-start the AWB revival... But you don't tell them that...

Note: I know some AWB and they're real nice folks.
The Atheists Reality
07-06-2004, 05:50
they're just crazy nazi's
07-06-2004, 06:27
Good luck to Eugene. He'll need it in the multi-cultural, crime-ridden, economic basket case that the "new" South Africa is becoming.

S.A. will be the next Zimbabwe, wait and see. It was better off in the old days, under apartheid, immeasurably better off. I hope he manages to breath new life into the AWB - they were almost the last decent people in the country - at least the last who cared about a real future for the Europeans there.

SA is worse than the former Rhodesia... SA has had about 1,600 white farmers out of a total of 40,000 white farmers killed... There used to be 100,000 white farmers... But a mass exodus occurred and for the first time ever SA now imports food out of necessity... It used to export food to many countries.

Former Rhodesia has had about 12 white farmers killed... But there are only about 3,000 white farmers there... Most whites are leaving former Rhodesia... Decades to build and moments to ruin... And all because of black jealousy and hatred of whites. Well I can tell you that Zimbabwe now has 7 million people starving... And you know what... They killed off / chased off all the commercial farmers just because they were white... They made their bed... They can sleep in it... That is how it should be... But no, the UN has to send food...The UN just has to keep subsidizing the murder of whites...