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Patrick Ndlovu, who was 15 at the time of the killing, confessed his role in the crime to police but a lack of forensic evidence and a failure by detectives to treat him as a minor saw a judge rule in his favour. However a second man, farm worker Chris Mahlangu, 29, was found guilty of murder, attempted robbery and housebreaking. During the day, as the verdict was read out at a court in the farming town of Ventersdorp, there were clashes between hundreds of uniform-clad white supremacist groups and local supporters of the two defendants which were broken up...

Mr Terreblanche, 69, became famous in the 1980s for his fire-breathing speeches advocating a separate Boer nation. He was beaten to death at his remote farm in April 2010, allegedly over a wage dispute with two workers. Followers of Mr Terreblanche have said the decision would prove a turning point for what they say is a growing number of Afrikaners who are fed up with the country's black leadership, the "genocide" of white farmers and being treated as "second class citizens". They have threatened protest marches by thousands of balaclava-clad supporters through the country's main cities, and unspecified, violent action...

When news emerged of Eugene Terreblanche's violent death in April 2010, South Africa braced itself for racial tensions. The red and black swastika-like banners of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (Afrikaner Resistance Movement - AWB) - the white supremacist movement that the bearded giant once led - waved menacingly at television cameras amid calls for revenge. It felt like a chilling return to the late 1980s

As white supremacist Eugene Terreblanche is buried, the dangerously charismatic Julius Malema threatens the country's future. We are not here to mourn the white supremacist Eugene Terreblanche, whose funeral took place yesterday, but since his name is on the world's lips, let's face the truth: the saddest thing about his murder last weekend is that it obscured an event that casts an infinitely darker shadow. The event took place in Zimbabwe, and involved, as fate would have it, Julius Malema, the ANC Youth League leader whose repeated singing of an old struggle song about shooting Boers is viewed by many...

South African white supremacist leader Eugene Terreblanche has been killed on his farm in the country's north-west. Mr Terreblanche, 69, was beaten to death after a dispute over unpaid wages, local media reports said. Two people are said to have been arrested.