JOHANNESBURG, April 5 (Xinhua) -- South Africa's extremist Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB, Afrikaner Resistance Movement) said on Monday that it will not retaliate for the killing of its leader Eugene Terre'Blanche amid fears of a backlash to spark racial tensions.

In a statement, Pieter Steyn, an AWB general, appealed for "calm" and not to engage "in any form of violence."

Earlier in the day, a delegation led by the head of North West province met with the Terre'Blanche family, apparently in a bid to deflect chain reactions after the 69-year-old leader of the extremist AWB was brutally killed by black workers on his farm on Saturday evening.

David Sengiwe, an official from the office of the premier, said after the meeting, "The family told us that the funeral will take place on Friday at noon, at a local church here in Ventersdorp."

President Jacob Zuma has strongly condemned his murder, calling upon politicians not to inflame race tensions after the killing of the fiery leader.