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Original Post Date: 2010-04-06 Time: 13:00:02 Posted By: News Poster
Johannesburg – Perhaps the TerreBlanche murder will spur on those trying to create a better society – one that works for all.
IT WOULD be spectacular theatre were the defence of the two men arrested for the murder of Eugene TerreBlanche last Saturday to cite the “struggle” song recently (and repeatedly) made famous by Julius Malema, as the prime motive for the killing.
But a skilled cross-examination would have little trouble destroying that as a serious excuse. The truth is likely to be much more familiar – envy, hatred, rage, alcohol or a mixture of the four. Most murders in SA are committed by cowards and these two suspects were no exception – they crept up on a sick and sleeping man and bludgeoned and hacked at him until he died.
And so we mark, for the umpteenth time, a “turning point” in our short democratic history. Not a decisive one – TerreBlanche’s right-wing followers would be unable to carry out any serious threat to the state – but hugely symbolic nonetheless. TerreBlanche represents all our democracy tries to reverse – a brutal, insensitive and sanctimonious system of racial division and repression that haunts everything we do. Some citizens will miss him. Most will not.
That is not to say he did not enjoy the same right to life that we all do. He did, and his death and the manner of it diminishes us. And it is trite to repeat that the African National Congress (ANC) governments that have run the country since 1994 have failed dismally to ensure that the right to life is respected.
It is easy to blame Malema and his song. Indeed, it is probably true that a defiant singing of the song does, in some people, create a desire, as the words go, to “kill the farmer, kill the boer”.
The violence perpetrated against foreigners in our townships two years ago is a measure of our capacity to kill for very little return. And it is insane to argue, as the ANC has insisted, that the song is just a bit of struggle memorabilia rendered harmless by the advent of democracy. President Jacob Zuma must rue the day he pronounced Malema a future ANC president. Does he have no judg ment at all? The manchild is a menace to his own people.
But those with their hands up in horror at this murder should listen to the many black voices arguing that Malema and his racist sentiments do not in any way represent them. And they should remember, too, the importance of the freedom to say what you want in SA. It is much more precious than it is dangerous. You cannot “ban” a song in a constitutional democracy. Zuma and his senior party and government colleagues will simply have to lead by example – something they have failed to do so far.
Perhaps TerreBlanche’s murder will be the fright they need. The presidential response to the murder was swift and loud. But it says more about how seriously Zuma takes the Afrikaner community than it does about the right-wing threat to our country.
The danger posed to our progress as a society by Malema and his supporters can only be contained politically. Make the people a better deal. This government is faced with the ugly truth that the delivery of the poor from poverty and degradation is entirely up to it. There is no one to blame and no one to help. It is all-powerful and if it cannot fix things then it is possible that, for the moment, no one can. We are all sick and tired of waiting for Zuma to lead the country/government/ party. He seems incapable of inspiring anything more than exhaustion.
So, what to do? When the uproar about the murder quietens, there is room (it has always been there) for a proper discussion about what kind of society we want. Clearly, some humility is required of all. No one has a monopoly on insight and truth. We need to learn that we must build trust among us all. A national consensus would make clear that we all need each other – black and white and rich and poor.
How to do it is harder. It will be a process. You cannot grow a market economy in a country full of poor people. And you cannot grow this market economy if all your actors measure themselves in three-month time spans. Discussion about how to lengthen our measures of success and create long-term value for society occurs only haphazardly.
Perhaps the TerreBlanche murder will spur on those trying to create a better society – one that works for all South Africans. It will not look anything like what TerreBlanche dreamed of, but it would make his beloved people much safer than he ever could have done.
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Original date published: 6 April 2010
Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/201004060749.html?viewall=1