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South Africa: The collective memory is not amnesiac

By on April 9, 2010
A trial will be held in South Africa – the country that has been trying to reinvent itself through a multiracial form within the last twenty years – about the raging racial murder of Eugene Terreblanche, leader of the Afrikaner Resistance Movement (AWB) – whose political axis has long been using violence to push the values of apartheid, pleading for the creation of a “Volkstaat”, an autonomous territory for Afrikaners, descendants of European settlers who speak a language derived from Holland.

In front of the AWB, executives of the ANC (African National Congress, ruling party) with their hero: Julius Malema, leader of the youth branch of the party, which is riding race relations in handling a language that borrows more from Robert Mugabe, the Zimbabwean dictator, than from Nelson Mandela. Julius Malema is reviving an old song from years of struggle, whose chorus proclaims “Kill the Boer!”
While the Afrikaners are returning the challenge by presenting themselves as victims of an eradication  campaign by promoting “non-violence” and trying to appear as party of white victims of post-apartheid South Africa injustices .
Unfortunately, the hatred is palpable. The history of South Africa has not ended …the murder of white supremacist Eugene Terreblanche Has highlighted the level of racial intolerance and hatred still felt by Many South Africans – black and white.

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