05/22/2012
VENTERSDORP, South Africa — A court found a black farmworker guilty on Tuesday of murdering a white supremacist in rural South Africa. A younger farmworker was acquitted of murder, but found guilty on other charges.
The two black farmworkers were accused of beating 69-year-old Eugene Terreblanche to death with an iron rod in April 2010. The verdict ends a case that has lasted two years and fanned racial tensions in Ventersdorp, west of Johannesburg.
Protesters scuffled outside the courthouse where the verdict was read Tuesday. Scores of white protesters gathered in support of Terreblanche’s family facing off against a larger crowd of black supporters of the accused. But the tensions did not explode into broader violence […]
South Africa Today – South Africa News
