JOHANNESBURG, South Africa – South Africa’s white supremacist leader Eugene Terreblanche was bludgeoned to death by two farm workers Saturday in an apparent dispute over wages, police said.
Terreblanche, 69, was leader of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging movement, better known as the AWB, that wanted to create three all-white republics within South Africa in which blacks would be allowed only as guest workers.
The South African Press Association quoted police spokeswoman Adele Myburgh as saying that Terreblanche was attacked by a 21-year-old man and a 15-year-old boy who worked for him.
Myburgh said the alleged attackers have been arrested and charged with murder. She did not further identify the two, who she said have told the police that there had been a dispute because they were not paid for work they did on the farm.
“Mr. Terreblanche’s body was found on the bed with facial and head injuries.” She said a machete was found on his body and a knobkerrie – a wooden staff with a rounded head – next to his bed.