Racism in Ireland - We must do more to end fear and hate

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.

In Ventersdorp, in South Africa’s North West Province, white supremacist Eugene Terre’Blanche was buried as armed men wearing military-style camouflage clothing mixed with young girls in their Sunday best.

Both lives, one that stretched well beyond the allotted three score and ten, the other just beginning, were destroyed by racism.