Tight security as Terre’Blanche laid to rest

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.

Armed police in bullet-proof jackets and members of Terre’Blanche’s Afrikaner Resistance Movement (AWB) stood watch inside and outside the church during the service amid concerns that emotions could boil over into racial clashes.

“He was a good person, the world was against him, they looked for the bad things about him,” Reverend Ferdie Devenir said of the fiery AWB leader who was hacked and bludgeoned to death on his farm near Ventersdorp on April 6.