Abstract
As all of you know, post-apartheid South Africa is sometimes referred to as the Rainbow Nation. This term was coined by Archbishop Desmond Tutu to emphasize the start of a new era of harmonious multiculturalism and the coming together of people of many different nations, in a country once identified with the strict division of Blacks and Whites. It is widely believed that through the implementation of a transitional justice process, led by the much-vaunted Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and following the precepts of the Ubuntu (which is an African concept stressing the importance of human community), South Africa has reached a post-racial moment. Due to a global climate of forgiveness and understanding, a post-apartheid consensus was established, former antagonisms were buried and everyone to leave peacefully together.
But as you may have heard the murder, on the third of April, of Eugene Terre'Blanche, a white supremacist and founder of the far right party Afrikaner Resistance Movement, has sparked fears of renewed racial violence in South Africa , and has called the post-apartheid consensus into question.
I will first present the life of Eugene Terre'Blanche as well as the circumstances of his assassination before I move on to the consequences of this event, which could be huge for South Africa.
