HE is well-known for shooting from the hip, but Bono has caused a stir in South Africa by giving his support to the rendition of an anti-apartheid song that includes the lyrics “shoot the farmer”.

ACCORDING to your editorial (‘South Africa: A nation on the edge’, April 7), the murder of Eugene Terre’Blanche, though “wrong,” was “not surprising” as he represented a view “long unacceptable”.

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.

JUST as Toyosi Shitta-bey, the 15-year-old Nigerian-born student murdered in Dublin just over a week ago was being buried on Thursday another funeral, half a world away, took place.

Eugene Terre’Blanche, the leader of South Africa’s neo-Nazi Afrikaner Resistance Movement, was released from prison today where he was serving a five-year sentence for attempted murder and assault.