HUNDREDS of police and right-wing paramilitaries guarded the funeral yesterday of murdered South African white supremacist Eugene Terre’Blanche, his coffin draped in a neo-Nazi flag.

WHITES and blacks faced off angrily in song in front of a heavily guarded courthouse yesterday where a teenager and another farm worker who reportedly confessed to killing a white supremacist leader in a wage dispute were charged with murder.

Angry whites and blacks faced each other today in front of the heavily guarded South African court where the first hearing of the alleged killers of Eugene Terreblanche was due to take place.

Followers of murdered South African Eugene Terreblanche have cast the white supremacist leader’s death as a rallying point for their cause, with one claiming his brutal death was “a declaration of war” by blacks against whites.

A South African white supremacist leader was bludgeoned to death by two of his farm workers in an apparent wage dispute, police said, but his followers today blamed a fiery youth leader for a “hate speech” which they claim led to his killing.

South Africa’s president appealed for calm today after white supremacist leader Eugene Terreblanche was bludgeoned to death by two of his farm workers in an apparent dispute over wages.

Iraqi citizens are suing a prominent European bank and an Australian wheat exporter, saying they were cheated out of humanitarian goods when the companies permitted the United Nations oil-for-food programme to be corrupted.

An Australian inquiry into alleged multimillion dollar bribes paid to export wheat to former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is expected to recommend criminal charges against several senior executives.

The UN’s report on the oil-for-food programme for Saddam Hussein’s Iraq drew widespread denials, terse dismissals and protestations of innocence yesterday, but also pledges to investigate from some of the 2,200 companies cited and countries with citizens named.

RUSSIAN officials yesterday furiously denied allegations linking companies and politicians to corruption in the UN oil-for-food programme for Iraq, saying that the report implicating them relied upon forgeries and false statements.

Eight million euro has been donated by the American Ireland Fund to over 300 charities and community organisations throughout the country.

A group representing white and black South African farmers has rejected help from the Ku Klux Klan.