"White extremist’s South African house stirs debate" Associated Press October 03, 2014
JOHANNESBURG — A proposal to turn the South African home of a slain white extremist into a state-funded museum has angered some South Africans who say certain symbols of their history of racial conflict should not be preserved.
The house in Ventersdorp town belonged to Eugene Terre’Blanche, leader of a hardline movement of whites from the Afrikaner minority that staged violent protests ahead of South Africa’s first all-race election in 1994.
Themba Gwabeni, a former antiapartheid activist, proposed turning the home into a heritage site on the grounds that it is important to remember racial oppression that occurred in the country.
The National Heritage Council, which oversees monuments, rejected the bid, saying the application was not properly filed.
Some South Africans criticized the proposal.
‘‘When you look at Terre’Blanche, the atrocities he committed against black people in particular, we don’t want to remember that,’’ said Pat Motubatse, a member of the South African Communist Party, a close ally of the ruling African National Congress.
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