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Eugene Terre’Blanche murdered

// April 4th, 2010 // No Comments » // News

According to many reports – the leader of Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) Eugene Terre’Blanche was murdered at his farm 10km outside of Ventersdorp on Saturday. (more…)

South African Murders

// August 27th, 2006 // 10 Comments » // News

“Watch your back in South Africa. They kill folks here. Murder them at a bewildering rate.

Robbers kill their victims, bystanders kill criminals, family members kill each other.

Gunbattles erupt on streets and in shopping malls. Passers-by whip out pistols and join in firefights between criminals and police or security guards. A recent flurry in high profile bloodshed even has police suggesting they are losing the fight with violent crime.”

So reads the introduction of an Associated Press article, “South Africans murders hit scary rate” that I found posted on Yahoo over the weekend.

Not I don’t dispute for one second that we have a serious crime problem in the country, but heck, the article makes Johannesburg sound like the inner-city of some war-torn country.

A tad hectic.