Nationalists bid farewell to white supremacist leader

Camouflage-clad armed men gathered in Ventersdorp, South Africa to mourn Eugene Terreblanche, whose body was brought into the church in a coffin draped with the Nazi-like flag of his AWB movement.

The 500 people in the church rose and sang Die Stem, an Afrikaans song that was the national anthem during the apartheid era.

Afterwards, a motorcade wound its way to Terreblanche's farm, where 2,000 had gathered for his burial.

Also among the mourners was Bojosi Isaac Medupe, a black minister who visited Terreblanche in prison after he was jailed after beating one of his black workers so badly the man was left brain damaged.

Mr Medupe said he believed Terreblanche mellowed in prison, and was no longer as committed to far-Right politics. "I believe there was a change in him," Mr Medupe sad