‘We never called for literal killing’ — Malema appeals for farm killings to stop
Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema attempted to distance himself from the chant that has followed him for years, at the party’s rally at the Orlando Stadium in Soweto on Saturday, just days ahead of the local government elections.
The chant, ‘Kill the boer, kill the farmer,’ was never meant in a literal sense. We never called for the literal killing of human beings. The killings in the farms of our own farmers must … stop.
Malema told his followers.
The continuation of this nonsense of killing white farmers feeds into the wrong narrative that there is a white genocide in South Africa, which is absolute nonsense and does not exist.
The “Kill the boer” chant has been tested repeatedly in court. A 2011 Equality Court ruling found Malema’s singing of the song amounted to hate speech.