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Original Post Date: 2010-04-06 Time: 06:00:02 Posted By: News Poster
By Karima Brown
Johannesburg – PRESIDENT Jacob Zuma moved swiftly at the weekend to temper the tone of the debate on race and racism that has gripped SA, and to manage international perceptions after the killing of Eugene TerreBlanche on Saturday.
TerreBlanche, the firebrand leader of the right-wing Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB), was bludgeoned to death, allegedly by two workers, on his farm in Ventersdorp, North West, evidently after a wage dispute.
Two workers who handed themselves over to police claimed not to have been paid since December. They are in custody, and were due in court today.
Afrikaner lobby groups have sought to link TerreBlanche’s death and the murder of other white farmers to ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema’s singing of a song with the words “shoot the boer”, although no direct link between TerreBlanche’s death and the singing of struggle songs has emerged.
Zuma’s unprecedented intervention – in a televised speech on Sunday, calling for calm – is the clearest sign yet that Pretoria is all too aware of the need to manage perceptions of SA, especially ahead of the World Cup in June.
Zuma called on political leaders to “think before they speak”. Violent crime was a concern, and the law had to take its course.
Presidential spokesman Zizi Kodwa said yesterday Zuma’s address was motivated in part by the need to counter the “wrong perception” that racial tension had risen to unacceptable levels.
“We have come a long way in SA and no one must be allowed to drag us back to our painful past – let us not help those who seek to go back,” Kodwa said.
It was important to “extend an olive branch”, even to those who were “our worst enemy” before democracy in 1994, in the interests of stability, Kodwa said.
Aubrey Matshiqi, senior political analyst at the Centre for Policy Studies, said Zuma’s move after the killing of the AWB leader was necessary. “People sitting overseas do not have the advantage of context, and their judgment about SA is made wholly on television reports. Given the World Cup and even after that, Zuma was correct to manage the perceptions of a global audience,” he said.
Matshiqi said that while the AWB’s views were not representative of whites, or even Afrikaner sentiment in general, the killing resonated in constituencies wider than the Afrikaner right wing.
“Those feelings of insecurity or alienation of these constituencies, whether well founded or not, are real, and need to be managed.”
Zuma’s leadership was also critical because even before the killing, SA was in the middle of an increasingly heated debate on race and racism, touched off by Malema’s comments and actions.
Political analyst Steven Friedman blamed “racial paranoia” on both sides for fuelling the hysteria over the issue. “SA is not on the eve of a race war,” he said. “The ANC’s own base has been involved in an uprising over service delivery for well over five years. That’s far more of an issue.
“What we see here is hysteria, where people see all kinds of monsters. In the ANC, leaders see white rebellion around the corner, and on the other side Malema represents the rise of black demagoguery a la Zimbabwe. Even in the opposition, you have this mind-set, all of which is inconsistent with reality,” he said.
Hardliner TerreBlanche’s neo- Nazi AWB threatened in his heyday in the late 1980s and early 1990s to sabotage talks leading to all-race elections in 1994.
He was later jailed for assaulting a black petrol attendant and the attempted murder of a black security guard. He served three years of a five-year term before his release in 2004. Then he faded into obscurity.
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Original date published: 6 April 2010
Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/201004060001.html?viewall=1