The Communications Workers Union (CWU) notes the death of the racist Eugene Terre'blanche, who opposed the democratization of our country, and was hell-bent on retaining and maintaing the apartheid system through a separatist State for Afrikaners - Volkstaat.

It was Terre'blanche and his right-wing forces that forcefully invaded and crushed to the World Trade Centre to stall the negotiations that led to a future and democratic South Africa. Terre'blanche never showed any remorse or extended a hand of reconciliation to the Black people for the heinous crimes he committed together with the AWB.

As CWU we want to publicly dispel the lies by Democratic Alliance and other like-minded right-wing organizations that are opportunistically linking the death of Terre'blanche to the struggle song ‘Dubula iBhunu' as malicious and an incitement of racial violence. Our struggle for the liberation of the oppressed went beyond the stones and petrol bombs; struggle songs played a role in defeating the apartheid system and the racist agenda as personified by Terre'blanche. Terre'blanche's death should not be used to re-write our history and distort the collective memory of our country.

It is our legitimate and considered view that Terre'blanche should not be honored and praised by the State on behalf of the people of our country. Terre'blanche to the eyes of our people is a symbol of racist apartheid and suffering endured by our people during apartheid rule and colonial oppression.

As CWU, we call on the Afrikaner working class to work closely with the mass democratic movement as led by the ANC, as part of building human solidarity whose foundation was laid by progressive Afrikaners such as Bram Fischer and Beyers Naude to eradicate Terre'blanche's racist and sexist world outlook that continues to afflict the vast section of African and Black working class.

Statement issued by Matankana Mothapo, Communication Workers Union, April 5 2010

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