South African Neo-Nazi wannabee Eugene Terre'blanche killed.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/03/AR2010040302275.html

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African white far-right leader Eugene Terre'blanche, who fought to preserve apartheid in the early 1990s, was beaten and hacked to death at his farm on Saturday.

"He was hacked to death while he was taking a nap," one family friend, a member of Afrikaner Resistance Movement (AWB), told Reuters, requesting anonymity.

Local media quoted another party member as saying he was beaten with pipes and machetes.

Police in the town of Ventersdorp said two men were in custody over the killing and the motive was unclear.

Terre'blanche had lived in relative obscurity despite the revival of his party two years ago and recent efforts to form a united front among white far-right groups.

Aw shucks, couldn't have happened to a nicer guy...

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1. The reporter says the motive is unclear

then goes on to mention revitalization and unity among the RW splinter groups. That alone sounds sufficient to bring about his assassination. This is a warning to others who would attempt to reintroduce apartheid in South Africa. If this ends with the death of Terre'blanche, the RW should consider themselves lucky.

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2. It was probably completely random

There are attacks like this on farms in South Africa every day.

While the rise of Jacob Zuma has brought the afrikaner militants out of total obscurity, I doubt the average farm raider has even heard of Eugene Terre'blanche.