Sunday, April 4, 2010

End of an Era - Death of Eugene Terreblanche

Having been remote witness of Apartheid in South Africa and subsequent transition of white minority from power corridors of Jo berg ( as Afrikaans popularly called this place),I was always intrigued by one personality and that is Eugene Terreblanche ,founder of AWB , a while super racist who was fighting for the separate homelands for white.From bombing the main airport of Jo Berg to barging with Armoured vehicle into the world trade center where the negotiations for ending the Apartheid was taking place in 1993 and to a recent event in 2001 , where in he killed two black farm employees for which he was jailed.
I have seen couple of documentaries on him and was quite intrigued and his persona to me seems Inscrutable at best.I have been strong votary against apartheid and never have endorsed his views. But the fascination to know him and to understand his persona was some thing I myself could not comprehend as I didn't subscribe to his ideology .In Utopian scenario it would have been nice , if white retribution by blacks post apartheid wouldn't have happened ,but human psychology manifested in politics would have never allowed it to happen.
The death of Eugene Terreblanche has created a fresh stir with uneasy calm between white and black community, more so with AWB vowed to take revenge of this killing.
I wish the old age enmity buries it self and New world of AFRIKANS gets evolved.
rgds
Raju Moza