JOHANNESBURG: Police are investigating claims that Eugene Terreblanche was killed after attempting to sexually assault two male workers on his farm.

A lawyer for one of the two suspects was quoted as saying the two accused acted in self-defence after the white supremacist plied them with alcohol and made sexual advances.

"An unarmed white man is a dead white man"... Eugene Terreblanche looked like a cross between Moses and Mussolini. Credit:AFP

Puna Moroko, lawyer for 28-year-old Chris Mahlangu, told South Africa's Sunday Times: ''My instructions from my client are that there was some sodomy going on and it sparked the murder of Mr Terreblanche.''

Mr Moroko added that Mr Terreblanche had plied both workers with alcohol and tried to have sex ''with one or both'' of them.