South Africa’s president has called for calm following the killing of Eugene Terreblanche, the white supremecist leader, in a reported pay dispute with black workers, informs Al Jazeera Net Monday.
Jacob Zuma on Sunday described Terreblanche’s killing as a “terrible deed” but called on South Africans to avoid letting the killing incite racial tensions.
The killing is believed to have come after a dispute over wages, but members of Terreblanche’s Afrikaner Resistance Movement (AWB) say he was hacked to death with machetes in a politically motivated attack.
Andre Visagie, the movement’s secretary-general, called the killing “a declaration of war” by blacks against whites and said the AWB would avenge Terreblanche’s death.
