South Africa has had a long & brutal history of racial strife & terror. Now that apartheid is over, they have been going through a healing period. So when this white South African teen committed these horrific crimes, it created racial friction according to CNN:
"A white teenager has pleaded guilty in a shooting spree that killed four blacks and reignited racial tensions in post-apartheid South Africa.
Witnesses say Nel began firing on children in a poor black settlement on January 14.
The dead included a 3-month-old baby who was being carried on her mother's back. The 31-year-old mother, a 10-year-old boy and a 35-year-old man also died." (END OF EXCERPT) Read the article in it's entirety by going here:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/11/17/safrica.guilty.plea.ap/index.html
