Men in camouflage with pistols at their waists and young girls in their Sunday best gathered in north-west South Africa today for the funeral of a white supremacist killed in what has been described as a wage dispute with two black farmworkers.

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.