Posted on 05/27/2025 8:51:18 AM PDT by DFG
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa defended the “Kill the Boer” slogan as a “liberation chant” Tuesday, refusing U.S. President Donald Trump’s demand to arrest opposition figure Julius Malema for using it.
Last Wednesday, during a meeting in the Oval Office, Trump accused South Africa of “genocide” and showed a video of Malema and his Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party chanting “Kill the Boer,” “Kill the farmer,” “Shoot to kill,” and other violent slogans at large rallies. Trump said that Malema ought to be arrested for incitement. Malema responded by repeating the slogan, both online and in another rally Sunday.
Ramaphosa denied that there was a “genocide” taking place — though others, like South Africa’s Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein, later said the term “genocide” was appropriate, given the fact that over 650,000 people had been murdered since 1994.
“It is not a white genocide, it is not a black genocide, it is a human genocide,” Goldstein said, noting that Ramaphosa never condemned the “Kill the Boer” chant, even in the Oval Office.
South Africa’s judicial system has failed to enforce the law against Malema — even though South Africa’s constitution, which guarantees freedom of expression, specifically prohibits “advocacy of hatred that is based on race, ethnicity, gender or religion, and that constitutes incitement to cause harm.”
Reporters confronted Ramaphosa on Tuesday at a conference in Cape Town about Trump’s demand, and this was his response:
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Ambushed, I say; ambushed!
Those are not the white farmers you’re looking for. You can go about your business. Move along.
It's only this one kook, oh and his millions of followers.
Julius Malema doesn’t hate all white people; he makes concessions for his bodyguard who is one of those “white Boers” he claims should be killed.
It is clearly a run up to a holocaust. It would be helpful if some doors were to open this time for people to leave.
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