Boy, 15, tells his mother he killed white supremacist leader

A teenager accused of murdering South African white supremacist leader Eugene Terreblanche confessed to his mother about the killing, it was reported yesterday.

The 15-year-old and an adult farmworker clubbed Terreblanche with an iron bar after he refused to pay them several months back wages.

"My son admitted that they did the killing," the mother said at her two-room home in Tshing township on the outskirts of Ventersdorp town.

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She said she spoke to her son at the police station on Saturday after

he turned himself in along with his 28-year-old accomplice.

Police have refused to identify either of the suspects by name. Under South African law, a minor accused of any charge cannot be identified without permission from a judge.

The two have been charged with murder and will appear in court today.

Terreblanche, 69, was leader of the far-right Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) movement and officials are anxious to show they are swiftly handling the crime, which comes just 10 weeks before South Africa becomes the first African nation to host the World Cup.

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The mother said her son told her that when he and his co-worker asked Terreblanche for their money, he told them first to bring in the cows. After they had brought in the cows they again asked for their money, which he then refused to give them.

"He said that the man told him to wait while he went to the storeroom. He came back with an iron bar. He started hitting Terreblanche, with four blows to the head. Then my son says he took the iron rod and hit him with three blows," the mother said.

"My son was a person who doesn't like to be in trouble," she said.

At the farm outside the town yesterday, an earth mover dug a hole for Terreblanche in the family graveyard, where he is to be buried after a church service in Ventersdorp on Friday.

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"This was such an unnecessary thing," Terreblanche's brother, Andries, said. "We are not racists, we just believe in purity of race."

AWB members still seek to create an all-white republic within mostly black South Africa.

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