Arthur Kemp’s Blog

And so the madness of South Africa continues.

Amidst all the flag waving, salutes, uniforms and bravado, Eugene Terre’Blanche was buried on his farm in a brick and concrete tomb designed to be vandalism resistant — but as the Sun newspaper so vividly revealed, even this tomb was built by black labourers.

Once again, the utter hypocrisy of Apartheid and white supremacism is exposed in a publicly humiliating way.

I can only shake my head.  Don’t the Afrikaners get it?

How can any white people expect to survive in a land where they are the tiny minority and use black people as virtual slave labour (Terre’Blanche paid his farm workers R300 — US $41 or £26  — per month) to do everything?

Terre’Blanche was killed in his bed. I wrote in my book, The Lie of Apartheid, that the definition of a white South African is “someone who would rather be murdered in his bed than make it.”

Afrikaners: The time for white supremacism is gone. You cannot hope to survive while you are so intrinsically entwined with black labour.

You used them for everything, even to murdering you and then digging your grave.

You cannot survive while every single thing you do, every enterprise, every interaction, every aspect of your lives, is determined by your reliance on black labour.

Because, whether you like it or not, black people also have rights, and they have claimed them.

You cannot think that you have a right to rule over black people — you do not.

I’ll say this again, maybe for the last time ever — if Afrikaners are going to survive, they must do two things:

1. Rid themselves of their reliance on black labour;

2. Congregate in an area where they are the majority, and where they do all the work: from road sweeping, rubbish collection and grave digging, to computer engineering and medicine.

Once they have established an area in which they are the majority, and in which they do all the work, then only will they have a fighting chance of survival.

They must do this now; before it is too late.

Stop all this stupid posturing, gun waving and empty threats. Everyone knows that it is meaningless.

If they don’t do that, they are all going to end up like Eugene Terre’Blanche. The only difference might be that the last few will not have their graves built by black labourers.

And if one more person tells me it can’t be done, well then, accept the inevitable.

It is with great bitterness that I received confirmation this evening that Eugene Terre’Blanche, leader of South Africa’s Afrikaner Weerstandbeweging (AWB) was murdered on his farm outside Ventersdorp today.

I knew Eugene Terre’Blanche well. He was possibly the greatest orator ever, and had the ability to capture an audience like no other I have ever seen.

Over the course of many conversations — including on the farm on which he was killed tonight, his family farm, I tried in vain to explain to him that his form of politics was a guarantee of death, not white Boer survival.

I tried to explain to him that his people’s use of black labour was the cause of their downfall. All is demographics, I told him.

For some reason, he failed to understand the link between demographics and political power.

He was one of those old fashioned white supremacists who believed that a white minority could rule over a black majority.

He truly believed that his people, the Boers, had been sent by God to look after black people in Africa, to show them the light of Christian civilisation.

The relationship between Afrikaners  – actually all whites in Southern Africa  – and blacks was and still is this bizarre mix of supremacism and patriarchalism.

I tried in vain to persuade Eugene that his use of black labourers on his farm and in his security business was contradictory to his demand for an Afrikaner homeland.

It is no consolation to be proven right. Eugene was murdered on his farm after getting into an argument with his black labourers.

I am horrified to be proven right once again.

I just hope that this latest incident proves to all those in South Africa who think that Apartheid was their salvation, that the whole concept was utterly flawed.

RIP, Eugene. I am sorry that you were wrong and I was right.

OFFICIAL STATEMENT BY THE AWB

It is with shock, dismay, frustration and the greatest of emotional pain that we were informed that our leader, Eugene Terre’Blanche was murdered on his farm Villanna (meaning “Home of Anna”) just outside Ventersdorp called around 17:00 this afternoon.

Details are sketchy, but from reports by people at the scene there was an argument with one of his black farm workers this afternoon. Later, while he was taking an afternoon nap, the farm worker, incited by others, entered his house and hacked him to death with a panga (chopping knife used for clearing bushes).

When police arrived they found our leader on his bed with mortal wounds to his upper body and head. He was declared dead at 7:00pm.

This news comes amidst reports of Julius Malema’s banned song which calls for freedom fighters of the ANC to “Kill the Boer”.

Our leader did not live permanently on the farm, but rather in Ventersdorp. He visits the farm regularly during the week and on weekends.

Eugene Ney Terre’Blance was born on January 31 1941 and was one of the founders of the Afrikaner Weerstadsbeweging. He dedicated the last decades to realising a dream of freedom for our Boer people and the concept of a Volkstaat, a free state where we could rule over ourselves.

We call on all our supporters, friends and members of the AWB to be calm for now as we mourn the passing of our leader.

This picture is worth putting up without further comment, exactly as it appeared in South African newspapers along with a small snippet from an accompanying press article.

CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA – 3 June 2009: President Jacob Zuma presents his State of the Nation Address at a joint sitting of the National Assembly and National Council of Provinces at Parliament. Pictured here are Zuma’s wives; Thobeka Mabhija, Nompumelelo Ntuli and Sizakele Khumalo. (Photo by Gallo Images)

“Polygamy is legally recognized in South Africa. The President appears to be a master at managing polygamous matrimony. All three Mrs Zumas attended the official inauguration of their husband as President in Pretoria on Saturday, May 9, 2009. On June 3 they all flew to Cape Town to listen as their husband delivered his first ever address to the nation.

While the speech was described as groundbreaking and the President was hailed as “a man of his word”, a significant portion of the rhetoric of a man who is more renowned for his “song and dance” appears to have been lost to the most important members of his audience.

Zuma has been married a total of five times. One of his former wives, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, is even a minister in his cabinet. A medical doctor by profession she was South Africa’s Minister of Health from 1994 to 1999, under President Mandela, then Minister of Foreign Affairs from June 1999 to May 10, 2009, under Presidents Thabo Mbeki and Kgalema Motlanthe.

She was moved to the position of Minister of Home Affairs in the cabinet of her ex-husband on 10 May 2009.”