There was obviously a lot of noise over the Easter weekend as to the songs Julius Malema has taken to singing, as well as his visits, and praise of, Robert Mugabe. Then we had the murder of Eugene Terre’Blanche, the AWB leader, and that was a bit of a shock. Personally I hope that the Constitutional Court rules the signing of such songs as hate speech, because I don’t think they are necessary or good for South Africa, but on the other hand I really don’t think they had anything to do with the murder of Eugene Terre’Blanche. 

He did not live a distinguished life, assaulting one of his farm workers until the man was left with brain damage and Terre’Blanche got a deserved criminal record and went to jail. The part of the story that amazed me is, and there is no justification ever for assaulting or killing anyone, is that the wages are alleged to be only a scandalous R300 a month and top of that he was not paying. It is absolutely appalling that any farmer would not be paying at least a semi-decent wage.