'If Boers want to fight me they are welcome'

ANC Youth League president Julius Malema returned home from Harare on Sunday night, claiming he was not scared to die and would not be terrorised by "Boers".

A league spokesperson confirmed that he flew in ahead of Tuesday's court appearance of two farmworkers accused of murdering Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging leader Eugene Terre'Blanche.

The case will be held in camera because one of the suspects, a 15-year-old, is a minor. He was not released into his parents' custody because of fears for his safety.

Police have pulled out all the stops to ensure there is no trouble.

The teenager, who minded cattle for Terre'Blanche, told his mother that he and an older labourer had bludgeoned him to death because he had not paid them in months. This echoes what her husband told The Mercury at the weekend, that his son had admitted attacking Terre'Blanche.

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The confession, detailed in an exclusive interview with AP Television News, undermines claims that the killing was inspired by the Struggle song urging people to kill white farmers.


According to the 15-year-old, some of Terre'Blanche's last words were threatening: "I will kill you and throw you to hell."

Temperatures appeared to have been lowered on Monday after the AWB retracted its earlier threats to avenge Terre'Blanche's death, and politicians and clergy groups echoed earlier calls for calm heads.

Significantly, the AWB's interim leader, Pieter Steyn, ruled out any violent retaliation.

Steyn said earlier statements had been made in the heat of the moment.

"The philosophy of the AWB is that no member will engage in any form of violence, intimidation or racial slandering or anything of that nature. The AWB leadership has called for calm countrywide by all AWB members."

Terre'Blanche will be buried in a family plot on his farm on Friday, and AWB members have apparently been urged to wear suits and leave uniforms and flags at home.

The AWB has also called for restraint at on Monday's court case.

In contrast, an emotional Malema - fresh from talks with Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe at State House - defended his singing of "Shoot the Boer", telling reporters in Harare it was sung before he was even born.

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He repeated the ANC's view that it was "irresponsible" to link Terre'Blanche's murder with his singing of the song.

"I started singing it when I was nine years and I don't know why Terre'Blanche was not killed at that time.

"Today, he is killed and people can't see a reason why Terre'Blanche was killed and they want to associate that with a song."
People are just mobilising and trying to intimidate us in our own country. We are unshaken and there is nobody including the rightwingers who can intimidate us in that country."

Malema added: "We have more important issues to concentrate on than killing an individual."
On the AWB's earlier threat to avenge Terre'Blanche's death, he said: "If there is anybody who wants to assassinate me, they will find me ready for them.

"I'm not going to be scared of Boers - I've fought them many times before. If they want to fight me they are welcome."An assassination would turn him into a hero, which would make future generations want to pursue his beliefs, Malema said.

He said there would be no special security arrangements once he returned home.

Several AWB members paid their respects at the Terre'Blanche Ventersdorp farm on Monday, while Cope president Mosiuoa Lekota and North West Premier Maureen Modiselle also visited the family.