South Africa's Afrikaans far-right leader Eugene Terre'Blanche, known for his paramilitary-style horseback parades and calls for a separate white homeland, has been killed at the age of 69.
The Afrikaner Resistance Movement (AWB) leader, who was jailed for trying to kill a black security guard nine years ago, was killed in bed on his farm.
Police have arrested two farm workers with whom he reportedly had an argument over unpaid work.
Mr Terre'Blanche violently opposed the end of apartheid white minority rule and campaigned for a self-governing Boer state. Boer is the Afrikaans word for farmer.
I can only hope we'll be reading about the death of this other fuckin asshole very soon.
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