South African relations are sliding downhill at a rapid pace and the confrontations are becoming more public. Yesterday, the white supremacist leader of a paramilitary group, Andre Visagie, nearly came to blows with a black activist on a TV news program and turned to threaten her before being escorted off the set.
Lebohang Pheko was asking questions of Visagie regarding his views when he lost his composure and ranted, “Don’t you dare interrupt me,” he said. He ripped off his mike and began to storm off the set, then turned and again confronted Pheko and the black news anchor sitting next to her.
The show’s anchor fired back: “If you touch me in my studio …,” he said as Visagie’s own bodyguard came on stage. “I’ll touch you in your studio,” Visagie defiantly responded.
When TV crew members came on set to separate the men, Vasagie turned to Pheko, pointed at her and said: “I’m not finished with you,” reports the BBC. The incident was only the latest of several in the wake of the murder of white supremacist leader Eugene Terreblanche by his black employees.
A black teen recently confessed to the murder, saying he beat the leader to death with a blunt object. –gerald radford
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