Too Far? South African Man Allegedly Paid Child to Pose as Dead Prey
- Posted on August 29, 2011 at 7:18am by
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JOHANNESBURG (The Blaze/AP) — A South African man is under fire after an image posted on Facebook surfaced showing him with a hunting rifle and a big grin kneeling in a classic hunter’s pose over his “prey” – what appears to be the lifeless body of a black boy. The picture launched a policed investigation and apparently the man admitted it was all a prank — in 2007.
The picture was first published on the front page of South Africa’s Sunday Times along with a police plea for the man in the picture or anyone who recognizes him to help their investigation. Further digging led police to a similar investigation in 2007, in which the picture was probed and the man fessed up to it being a hoax. The Times reports:
Hawks spokesman Colonel McIntosh Polela said yesterday that Western Cape police contacted him yesterday morning after reading a Sunday Times report which stated that the photograph featured on the profile of a Facebook user who called himself “Eugene Terrorblanche”.
“I was told that the photograph came to light in 2007 and that it was investigated. The man was taken in for questioning.
“He told police that the child was alive and that he paid the child to pose.”
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“I got the impression that the man told the police that the child was alive. I don’t know how far the police went to find out if the child was indeed alive. I will have to read the report,” he said.
Still, it’s not completely clear if the picture is authentic, or whether it has been digitally manipulated. Also unknown is the fate of the child.
The Sunday Times quotes officials saying anyone party to the production and posting of the photograph could be charged under several laws including the Children’s Act, the Films and Publications Act and the Criminal Procedure Act.
“If this is the same picture that was reported on earlier as being doctored, it is comforting to know that the child was not physically harmed,” Ray Hartley, editor of the Sunday Times, told the Times (they’re sister publications). “The fact remains that a very sick individual has this picture posted on his Facebook profile in 2011 along with a string of extremely racist remarks.”
The photo has also led to racial concerns. The man in the photo has been dubbed the “Facebook racist” and the national director of public prosecutions, Menzi Simelane, tweeted: “Race crime legislation is needed in SA.”
“Whether or not the picture is genuine, it represents a scene of extreme violence perpetrated against a child by a man,” DA leader Helen Zille told the Times. “The intention is to evoke racial hatred and polarization.”
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Stempy
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 8:59amHollywood does it everyday and we pay big money to see stuff like this!
Report Post »robert
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 9:22amThere‘s something that just isn’t right here. As they say, something is wrong with this picture.
I can’t think of one legitimate reason why this kneeling man would want to pose over something as dastardly as that, probably knowing full well it would be viewed universally with outrage.
Something just isn’t right here. This is the kind of photo his enemies would want to pass around. It seems more than bizarre he would do so himself.
Report Post »Bluebonnet
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 9:54amDisturbing and so wrong. However, if this were sent to a museum or art gallery, it would be ART. Sick!
Report Post »I’m still thinking of the images of Jesus used for what “they” called art, and that was allowed. SICKO’S.
BOUGHT YOUR SILO YET?
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 9:59amI agree- Hollywood does this every day. Does not make it right though. And- personally, its been in recent months that I have stopped feeding the appetite for shock TV and images on the big screen. I don’t watch anything anymore.
Also believe that if this is legitimate (not photo shopped) – the guy deserves to be investigated. It’s a natural course of action.
Report Post »Sleazy Hippo
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 10:14amMany people will find this hilariously amusing. It brings back the days when a godly man with firearms could do as he felt was best to husband his crops, livestock, property and land in the name of our Lord.
OU812BTW
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 10:28amCreepy picture! But not why you think. Look at the void between the mans legs and the top of the child’s back. It looks like the image of a Red Fox with the ears being at the man’s crouch and the mans right leg being the back of the fox sitting on the child. Look just above the child’s head to see the bushy tail of the fox. Although the face of the fox is transparent you can see what appears to be a black snout of the fox. Sometimes in pictures it is what is seen that is not there that really tells the story.
Report Post »snidley-whiplash
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 11:14amFakebook , not Facebook
Report Post »Strait Talk Express
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 11:15amIn a free enterprise system, if the “hunter” paid the dead child for posing, it should pass the Supreme Court test as legal commerce. I think Hustler magazine has done similar photos paying naked women to pose as prey.
I think there is a TEA Party market for this photo, just like porn.
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 11:34amRobert you have a great point considering the atmosphere that currently exists in SA and that being one that is very hostile/dangerous to Whites. This man and his socalled Hoax piture will be used as an excuse to further discriminate against Whites there and even kill them more than they have been.
Report Post »t00nces2
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 11:43amToo bad he wasn’t a Palistinian holding up the head of a dead Iraeli child, he would be celebrated and on his way to his 72 virgins.
Seriously, nobody got hurt. Was it a dumb idea? Yes. I don’t really see the problem getting worked into this type of lather. Get a sense of humor, people.
Report Post »BMWmech
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 1:05pmI agree. If it was Matt Damon doing the same the thing in a movie he would make millions. I think its funny.
Report Post »Secret Squirrel
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 2:42pm.
In bad taste, yes, sick, no.
Heck, he paid the kid.
Is it any worse than the “Madonna with elephant dung”
that hung in the Met?
Is it any worse than a crucifix in a jar of urine?
He should claim he’s an artist, and the NEA will give him a grant.
Sick is when he really shoots the kid.
Report Post »bioengineer
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 3:19pmI thought it was Beck posing with a muslim boy… he did make a trip to South Africa after all…
Report Post »kropptj
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 3:54pmYes it is sick, shocking and reprehensible, but if the story is true then the kid made a buck. Nothing wrong with that, the man has the right to be stupid.
Report Post »southernloyalty
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 6:08pmThis is just a joke, sick or not. The sad thing is that because of this the racist Black African government will probably one way or the other have this man executed for it. They‘ll most likely deal with him the same way they’ve dealt with many white farmers, and let some goon squad kill him and get off free of any charges. Remember when white kills black, its evil, hate, horrible. When black kills white, its justified, liberating, natural. The sick and twisted world we live in. Just think, a perfect world without any of this is one where multiculturalism and diversity doesn’t exist.
Report Post »TXPilot
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 6:55pmHmm….maybe it was just a dart gun and he was tagging South African flashmob members for study and tracking purposes?
Report Post »Favored93
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 8:11pmNo kidding … Hollywood does this almost DAILY and no one freaks out. This looks to me as though it was just a gag pic. something to just say haha about on his face book page. people need to relax!!!!
Report Post »This PC crap has to stop people are getting hurt because of stuff like this. A gag pic could land you in JAIL!!! What ever happened to JUSTICE VS. WITCH HUNT for PC breakers? Justice says no crime no time PC crap says we (the PC police) are judge jury and executioner!
IT’S A DAM,N GAG!!!
Black Manta
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 5:12pmWell al I can say is this how the devil will be kneeling over his soul if he doesn’t get right with Jesus our Lord and savior…
Report Post »brnm8brn
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 10:17pmyou would think a white person would know better, this is so wrong
Report Post »Gary Fishaholic
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 8:56amStupid sick and all of the above.
Report Post »Favored93
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 8:15pmPlayful,silly and no big deal!
Report Post »The kid earned a little bit of money and the guy got a pic to remember from hit trip to Africa.
RELAX!
Vasbyt
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 8:54amI would like to know why THE BLAZE felt it neccessary to post this picture and article just a few days after so many people commented negativeley on Glenn’s stance against the whites in South Africa. Is this a slap in the face for all of us who slammed you Glenn? What does this picture help besides inflaming hatred. You know the ignorant will take this very far. I had a black customer ( in the USA)when the riots in England were goin on, and she said to me that ” it‘s crazy how the English police shot this poor black man’s head right off his body before he could even get out of the car”, and she supported all that the riotors were doing just because someone told her some stupid story and she went with her emotions instead of logic. What do you think the average black American is going to be talking about when they hear about this picture that “THE BLAZE” has given truth to? Who is to say that some poor white boy in America is not going to be killed in an act of revenge for the non victem in South Africa? Think before you post something you blazing idiots, or wait maybe you did and that is what you want!
Not a real story at all!!!
2ndAkeepsmefree
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 9:12amThankfully this picture is fake. But why don’t you show the very real pictures of the little white children brutally murdered and in some cases raped and mutilated on a relatively regular basis in the home/farm invasions that are going on in SA today? the Boer farmers have been targeted for eradication with the silent blessing of the Zuma “government”. Did we forget what happened in Zimbabwe? Well it’s starting to happen in SA now with not a peep from the media, the UN, or any human rights organizations. Hey Glenn why don’t you show those pictures?
Report Post »billybe123
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 9:20amKeep it up Blaze! You showing the Truth! Sometimes its not Nice, but its the Truth. Good Job. Live with the Truth @vasbyt. Get your head out of the Sand.
Report Post »Mathew Manhorne
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 9:41amAnyone who really knows anything about South Africa knows that the country has been in a downward spiral for years.Crime in the country is out of control. Most of the South African whites have left because of that and the fact that the farmers are targeted and murdered and the SA government refuses to protect them….I know several South Africans that have left that I am friends with and they found the Glenn’s ignorance of the reality of SA amusing…
Report Post »Applehead
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 9:55amIt’s a sick, vile, disgusting picture!!!! But this one picture by an individual POS that can lead to many bad race relations and violence!!! This is exactly like the mainstream media Glenn that you have taken the image of!!! They take the fringe and use it to manipulate the masses!!! Please leave the sensationalism out of Africa and help the people who are being ruthlessly slaughtered!!! The Jews that have deep pockets and have MASSIVE influence on our government, enough to get us to fight their wars surely can get our government to put together a coalition to protect the victims of this genocide!!! The Jews have gone through the holocaust and should be 1st in line financially and yelling from the roof tops to drum up support to make sure this doesn’t happen to any other people again!!! You have the power to influence your Jewish friends to help another group of Gods children from being murdered!!! You should have talked about this at your Restoring Freedom Rally in Israel!!!!! Americans and Christian Charities are always the 1st and give the vast if not pretty much all the financial and on the ground leg work to feed and cloth the world!!!! It’s time for our Jewish friends to step up that are so vocal about their holocaust!!!!!!!
Report Post »JustMel71
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 10:06amIt took me a whole 10 seconds to google a very interesting link to the other half of South Africa’s tragedy that I hope The Blaze (the truth has no agenda) will follow up on.
http://www.honestmediatoday.com/genocide_white_farmers.htm
Nelson Mandela sings about killing BHULU (whites)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcOXqFQw2hc&feature=player_embedded
Report Post »2ndAkeepsmefree
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 11:05amRead into the Cannibal’s Pot by Ilana Mercer who is a SA Jew and daughter of a prominent Rabbi who was very active in the anti-aparthied movement. She is now a conervative journalist telling the real story of what is happening in SA today. It’s scary…
http://www.amazon.com/Into-Cannibals-Pot-Lessons-Post-Apartheid/dp/0982773439
Report Post »Seabee79
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 11:26amVasbyt
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 8:54am
Do us a fave shoot yourself in the head.
Report Post »Lloyd Drako
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 12:46pmVasbyt, I wouldn’t pick on The Blaze for covering this story. Huffpo has it too, and it’s naturally a big story in SA.
Seabee79, why be so hard on Vasbyt? Go back a few days, and you’ll find that he provided us with a good summary of South African history, giving due attention to the achievements of the Afrikaners, a people who have a lot in common with Glenn’s heroes the Israelis.
Report Post »techengineer11
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 6:30pmApplehead: So you expect the the Jewish community to speak out against atrocities directed towards other communities other than theirs and Africans? Are you kidding me? They travel around the world in order to prevent any group of people the right of declaring their history if might interfere with or rival their Holocaust story.
Don’t hold your breath since it was Marxist Jews which led to the overthrow of White SA to begin with the aid of their kinsmen in the American Media.. You think they give a damn about the slaugther of Whites around the world? Seriously?
Report Post »Ms. Gray
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 8:47pmYou know what I find amazing, the guilt so many white people have. Has it ever occurred to any of you that some black people as well as white people are outrage about this picture because their is a grown man, with a gun, standing over the body of what it appears to be a dead child he murdered??? I think I am more offended about that then anything. For many, this has nothing to do with race. Please stop spreading ignorance and hate.
Report Post »Thighmaster
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 8:49am..so the kid gets a few bucks to buy some food and medicine. Maybe he should have held out and got sickly skinny and he could have been put in front of a camera to make us feel bad about our “wealth”. Funny, I looked at the picture and I didn’t see anything racist about it. Now if there was racist language in his post that’s different. Me thinks it‘s the gun that get’s the response. If they had posed in the library with the candlestick holder it might have been different. Whoa! We have games where people get killed and we have to guess whodunnit? What’s next? Murder mystery theatres?
Report Post »Da Kingfish
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 9:39pmThis would be a great photo op for our Border Patrol, and it’s coming, just like the race riots, if Obungo goes down in 2012
Report Post »Llewsilverhand
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 8:38amOk, one can take a pic of a cross in a glass of urine and call it an expression of art. One can shred a Bible and call it freedom of expression. One can burn the American flag and call it free speech. One can legalize sodomy and call it social justice of equality. But don’t you dare offend one race by making a joke picture. Especially if you’re of the majority race. That’s just not PC.
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 8:58amI agree, but this pic was still disturbing. Perhaps, though, the lefties will equate this with some sort of “art” such as the examples you described and defend it. Oh wait, it shows a black kid on the ground, not a white one with a leering black guy over him. Never mind. They will just denounce this as racist instead of distasteful like it really is. Can’t let a PC “crisis” go to waste…..
Report Post »countryfirst
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 8:35amCemerius, some comparisons polar bears are white on the outside with black skin, our POTUS is apparently white on the inside with black skin.
Polar bears dream of killing seals for survival, and our POTUS dreams of killing America because it feels good.
Report Post »Carolina Infidel
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 8:31amWould there be any conversation if it were a little white boy?
Report Post »Llewsilverhand
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 8:53amNo, if it were that way,,,, it’d be a joke.
Report Post »Ron_WA
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 9:03amYes. He’d still be an idiot & it would still be sick.
Report Post »Lloyd Drako
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 12:48pmYes, especially if the “hunter” was black.
Report Post »Da Kingfish
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 9:46pmNope, not even a wet back.
Report Post »Carolina Infidel
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 7:38amThat was kind of the point. This should be a human tragedy that goes beyond race but it seems to so many that it is more important to be a color than a human.
Report Post »Carolina Infidel
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 8:30amIt is not a crime to be a dueche bag.
Report Post »trolltrainer
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 8:42amDid you, by chance, mean douchebag?
Report Post »BeerSnob
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 9:09amI believe that’s the italian spelling
Report Post »Carolina Infidel
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 7:35amNever bought or used douche before and didn’t care to look up the spelling.
Report Post »christos
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 8:22am……Disturbing that man should be in jail.
Report Post »randy
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 8:53amWhy?
Report Post »christos
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 9:12am……If you need to ask why maybe only you have that answer,,Ta Ta
Report Post »Da Kingfish
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 9:59pmWhy don‘t you tell that to Gadaffy’s Son’s nanny, what they did to her because she wouldn’t beat the child, then you can say how horrible this is, you have no concept between pretend and reality. I guarantee you it will be much much worse when it breaks out on the streets of the US for real.
Report Post »huck555
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 8:22amNot funny in the slightest.
Report Post »OUTRIDER WRITER
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 8:49amWell stated Huck555.
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Something is serious wrong with a man who gets his rocks off doing a stunt like this.
Charles
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 8:19amThe only reason this is getting any attention at all is because its a white guy and the little boy who is playing dead is black. If it were the other way around and anyone was trying to call attention to it they would be told to shut up and sit down.
Report Post »Llewsilverhand
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 8:50amVery true… sad to say.
Report Post »Ookspay
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 8:15amSick yeah, stupid yeah… So what, does this mean Hollywood can’t imitate death any more? I sure hope so.
Report Post »JJ0369
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 8:15amI have seen worse.
Report Post »Tyr
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 8:38amAgreed
Report Post »cemerius
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 8:58amSemper Fi
Report Post »Ghostrider
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 9:05amSemper Fi!!!!
Report Post »TripleG
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 8:01am“Race crime legislation is needed in SA.”
Why don’t they just call it what it will be (same as in the US): “Crimes against non-whites by the evil white man”. I sick of the double standard.
At some point whites will be a minority… when that happens watch how fast they change the use of the term.
Report Post »Solzhenitsin
Posted on August 31, 2011 at 3:04pmI don’t think that will change it, even then.
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 7:58amAnd this guy thought this was funny because….? Someone needs to give the gene pool a serious shock treatment.
Report Post »TheValley
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 7:44amWhere are all the libs calling for an end to the white race? If this were an artist, it would be dismissed as artistic license, no one was hurt, and it was staged, get over it. “He who does not offend, can not tell the truth”~ Thomas Paine
Report Post »searching for the Truth
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 7:41amFueling the fires of “ racism” again.
Report Post »kaydeebeau
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 8:09amI thought it was an ad for Planned Parenthood…..only with PP the kid would really be dead
Report Post »searching for the Truth
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 8:35amI have an interesting little story, an antidote so to speak. Its depicts the frustrating struggle the Israelis have to endure: A young Israeli is strolling through a small town, and he hears a woman screaming to the top of her lungs, ” Help, please help me!” The young man runs to the woman in distress,and finds the woman trapped in a tall building engulfed in flames. Peering out of the building from a window above, the woman yelled to the young man, ” Find me a rope or a ladder. ‘ please get me out of here before I die.’ ” The young Israeli hurriedly runs from building to building gathering up whatever he could find ; then , rushes back to the woman so anxiously awaiting. He places a ladder on the eave of the building, and the woman replies, ” It’s not long enough!” So he throws up a rope, which the woman immediately throws back saying, ” It’s too short!” Desperate, the young man breaks down a door, and runs up the burning stairs,collapsing behind him. Finding the woman, he grabs her by her hands carefully lowering her to the ladder; thereby ,she climbs down to safety. Finding himself in the same predicament, he calls out to the woman, “Throw me the rope!” The woman dusts herself off ,casually walks away exclaiming, ” You got yourself into that mess – you get yourself out.”
Report Post »ConservativeChristianB1954
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 7:40amThis was disgusting and morally wrong. I don’t care if he did pay the child. It was WRONG!!
Report Post »No wonder we still have racial problems in the world. That one photo will be used to spew more hate from all sides in race issues.
chazman
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 7:43am… this photograph is the direct result of global warming!
Report Post »cemerius
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 7:57amYeah I believe Polar bears are white too…..Stop Global Warming cause it is racists against bears!!!
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 8:38amYeah, but underneath all that Polar Bear’s white hair is black skin.
Report Post »cemerius
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 9:08amdang next thing I am going to hear is that the Polar bears are the “missing link”…then we would have to stop them from drinking coke!! oh yeah unless they have a “tan” then they can drink pepsi!!!
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 7:40amZzzzzzzzz yet another dummy story
Report Post »trolltrainer
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 8:25amIt served its intended purpose. Just read the comments.
The Blaze – The National Inquirer of the internet. Attracting bored, self-righteous housewives in unappreciated numbers…
If Beck ever looked at his creation he would be ashamed…
Report Post »A MERICAN
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 7:39am“The intention is to evoke racial hatred and polarization.”
really…..I think they have PLENTY of that in South Africa already.
Report Post »not sayin it’s the smartest thing he coulda done tho.
cemerius
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 7:58amNo, but our American “media” thoguht it would be nice to bring some real “racism” to the party to find some way to make this guy part of the Tea Party movement!
Report Post »Meyvn
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 7:29amLooks like a real dumb@ss and his actions prove such.
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 7:35amYea, that’s just sick, pure plain and simple.
Report Post »RightUnite
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 7:27amWell, I guess he was acting stupidly….
Report Post »cemerius
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 9:07amha ha ha to find humour in such a dark story!!
Report Post »rangerp
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 7:26amWhat an idiot. I saw a young dumb Army Lieutenant do a similar thing down in Haiti back in the 90s. His Army career did not last long.
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 7:25amI am sure the Dems will link him to the Tea Party. What a moron.
Report Post »rangerp
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 7:41amYou are right, I bet they will find a way to say that Sarah Palin told him to do it.
Report Post »Tickdog
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 7:25amYawn….
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