South African violence and murder of White Farmers

South African Leader: No ‘Instructions’ on Arrests for Threats

Is South Africa’s commitment to free speech a noble stand or a dangerous oversight?

President Cyril Ramaphosa has doubled down on defending chants like “Kill the Boer! Kill the farmer!” as protected expression, even as critics, including U.S. President Donald Trump, sound the alarm over violence against white farmers.

According to the Daily Wire, this controversy pits constitutional freedoms against concerns of racial violence, with Ramaphosa rejecting foreign pressure to arrest those chanting inflammatory slogans, while Trump highlights brutal attacks on farmers, and local figures like Julius Malema stoke the flames with unapologetic rhetoric.

Let’s rewind to 2010, when a South African court first tackled this firestorm, ruling that the song “Kill the Boer, Kill the farmer!”—popularized by Malema, leader of the communist-leaning Economic Freedom Fighters—qualified as hate speech. That decision seemed to draw a line in the sand. But fast forward to 2022, and Judge Edwin Molahlehi flipped the script, declaring it protected speech.

By late March, Malema was at it again, leading a rally with crowds chanting the same violent refrain, alongside calls to “cut the throat of whiteness.”

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