South African farmers reject Klan help

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

The US-based white supremacists had offered to stop white South Africans' homes from being attacked.

But the Agri South Africa association says its members are not interested.

The group represents 31,000 white and 32,000 black farmers, reports the country's News 24 website.

Its spokesman Kobus Visse said: "We have not received any official offer from the Ku Klux Klan, but even if we did it would not be considered."

Carel Boshoff, the founder and spokesman for a whites-only enclave called Orania, added: "We haven't had any contact with them at all. If we did, we would have rejected it out of hand. We are not interested at all."

But ultra-right wing AWB leader Eugene TerreBlanche said: "The people will take help from anyone and it is because they are being killed off."