Malema insists ‘Kill the Boer’ chant was never a call for murder

Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema has defended the party’s controversial “Kill the Boer, Kill the Farmer” chant, arguing that it should not be taken literally and urging an end to violence against farmers and farm workers.

The chant ‘Kill The Boer, Kill The Farmer’ was never meant in a literal sense. The killings in the farms and of farmers must stop and must stop now.

Malema said the chant belonged to the country’s liberation history but insisted that violence against farmers and farm workers had to end.