Based on the recent events around South Africa’s current and former political leaders. Eugene Terre Blanche’s death and his ‘legacy’ was clouded by the ANC and their internal matters of discipline.
This former AWB leader, Terre Blanche who was well known for his endorsement of the Apartheid regime as a successful form of leadership for this country. He like the current Malema, had overt forms of bias for his preferred father land’s population’s demographics (White Afrikaaners).
The idea that one (Terre Blanche) was set in their unequal and unrealistic ways for so many years and accumulated so many followers and believers leaves one with a bit of a bitter taste in the mouth, and this is because of a simple yet fundamental sense of a lack of Ubuntu.
An advocator of ideologies which serve to promote segregation and perpetuate the deeply embedded racist history of this country serves as an unfortunate injustice to the 16 years of progressive democracy and to humanity as a whole.
The importnace behind the meaning of the African proverb ‘Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu' (a person is a person through other people) is not at play when it comes to a handful of South Africa’s leadership.
Although besides his questionable idelogies it appears that he had a side to him which was likened to normal humane behaviour; A father’s love for his daughter and this drive to create a safe and sound environment for them to grow in is a universal feeling to ALL men it seems.
Dennis Beckett’s interview with this man was both insightful and affirming to my previous opinions.
What I have taken away from this article is a little bit more than I knew before about why it is people do what they do, Rest In Peace Eugene Terre Blanche with both good and bad memories.
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