The Facebook photo at the centre of controversy.Īccording to report published by the Sunday Times today, the police had questioned the man from Knysna in 2007, when the picture first surfaced. Information on his profile described his interest in knives, firearms, close-combat fighting and weapons. Long after our freedom struggle and the affirmative action in place, one wouldn’t expect someone to be so brave as to put a picture which is so medieval in nature.”Īfter the story broke, the user blocked access to his photos to all but his friends. Peepa David*(name changed), Pretoria, says, “It’s upsetting when you see that people will stoop so low and put such disgraceful pictures on social networking sites. Social media networks and radio stations were filled with condemnation of the picture and what it depicts. The picture was published by the Sunday Times on Sunday, 28 August when a reporter stumbled upon it while searching for Eugene Terre’Blanche. The picture had been posted on the page of 'Eugene Terrorblanche', playing on the name of white supremacist leader Eugene Terre’Blanche, who was murdered in April last year. The latest, garnering strong reactions from across the world, is a display image of a white man posing with a gun in front of a seemingly lifeless body of a black child. In the news lately for all the wrong reasons, Facebook is going through a rough publicity patch.
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