Documents on the . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
I have long consigned the whole dirty inside story of the Lipstadt trial to my memoirs — as yet unpublished — so that I can move on. [ Previous Radical’s Diary ] (Easter Sunday) Windsor (England) The late television news last night reported that Blacks have murdered the Afrikaner leader Eugène Terre’Blanche , or as he spelt it Ter Blanche .
He was bludgeoned with a knobkerrie and hacked to death in his farm at Ventersdorp in South Africa yesterday. No prizes for guessing the colour of his assailants — two farm workers who, says the S.A. press, “allegedly had an argument over unpaid wages”. So that’s all right then.
Since January 1994 the address of his movement the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging, the Afrikaner Resistance Movement, has come top of my own address list but for no other reason than that it is alphabetical: A W B, Post Office Box 274, Ventersdorp 2710, South Africa. It was the address on an unsolicited appeal for funds (to which I never responded).
I guess our own beloved South African emigré Peter Hain will not weep over Ter Blanche the same kind of tears that he did when delivering the eulogy at the funeral of the convicted Pretoria terrorist and murderer John Harris , hanged in 1965. The cowardly murder of Ter Blanche, nearly seventy, looks dreadfully like the beginnings of a repeat “Rhodesia” scenario, with the government-inspired massacre of the White settlers and farmers whose brains made South Africa what it is, or rather was.
Only a few days ago important Black leaders in the country were calling for the massacre of White farmers, calling them “thieves and rapists” — an exact copy of the exculpatory logic of Heinrich Himmler ‘s death squads who referred to the Jews killed in Operation Reinhardt as “looters and plunderers” (which most of them weren’t). South African’s new Black president, Jacob Zuma , has appealed for calm, and has condemned the murder as a terrible thing.
His appeal for calm might seem unnecessary; true, after my friend Clive Derby-Lewis arranged the 1993 assassination of the Black Communist murderer-in-chief Chris Hani , Black mobs rioted for days and seventy people died. But I can’t imagine White crowds doing the same — or is that just a racist viewpoint of society? We folks just don’t seem to have the gene in us that says Go Forth and Riot and Burn and Loot and Kill — even after Manchester United’s worst defeat.
It is yet another genetic anomaly. MY mind goes