Burial of white supremacist Eugene Terreblanche

Описание: (9 Apr 2010)
1. Eugene Terreblanche''s coffin being carried towards the grave on the Terreblanche family farm
2. Coffin bearers
3. Coffin being carried to grave
4. Wide shot, graveside, Eugene Terreblanche''s widow (dressed in black with a cross around her neck) and Terreblanche''s daughter (on screen left of mother, dressed in blue and holding hands with mother) standing
5. Close shot, Terreblanche''s widow and daughter
6. Mourners throwing flowers onto the coffin
7. Old man with beard, pull out to old man walking past the camera, crying
8. Close shot, grave
9. AWB member standing graveside, performing an AWB salute
10. Close AWB ''soldiers'' standing in silent contemplation
11. Wide shot, graveside, mourners passing by
STORYLINE:
A white supremacist killed in what has been described as a wage dispute with two young black farmworkers was buried on Friday as a divided South Africa contemplated the meaning of his brutal death.
Murdered Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging movement (AWB) leader Eugene Terreblanche was laid to rest in a grave on his family farm, 12 kilometres (7.2 miles) outside Ventersdorp, South Africa.
Terreblanche''s widow and daughter were were visibly moved by the burial, as were AWB members who stood in silent contemplation.
A few gave the bent-arm AWB salute.
Earlier on Friday, Terreblanche, who was killed in what has been described as a wage dispute with two young black farmworkers, was remembered with nationalist anthems and flags and impassioned rhetoric at a church service.
Terreblanche''s death has not sparked wider violence.
South African leaders acknowledged that racial tensions remain 16 years after apartheid ended, but have played down any threat to the World Cup that starts in June, the first time football''s premier tournament will come to Africa.
White militants who considered Terreblanche their leader say his death proves whites aren''t safe under majority rule.
Black leaders say controlling crime - whether its victims are white or black - is a priority in a country with one of the highest rates of violent crime in the world.
The aftermath of Terreblanche''s death has shown how far South Africa has come.
White militants first vowed revenge, but later joined President Jacob Zuma in calling for calm.
Terreblanche''s AWB movement, seeks to create an all-white republic within mostly black South Africa.
The group''s insignia resembles a Nazi swastika, but with three prongs instead of four.
The movement always has been on the fringes, estimated to have no more than 70-thousand members at its height in the early 1990s out of a population of nearly 50 (m) million.
Terreblanche was sentenced to six years in jail in 2001 for the attempted murder of former security guard Paul Motshabi in March 1996 and was released in 2004.
Motshabi suffered brain damage, and was left paralysed and unable to speak for months after the attack.

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