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ANC Defends “Kill The Boer” Song

South Africa‘s ruling African National Congress is defending its Youth Party leader Julius Malema for singing “shoot the Boer, they are racist,” saying the words were taken out of context.

Malema is facing a criminal charge of inciting hate after he led a group of student at the University of Johannesburg in singing the song.

The Freedom Front Plus laid a criminal charge against Malema for allegedly advocating hate. The Afrikanerbond lodged a complaint with the SAHRC.

The song is reminiscent of the late Peter Mokaba, a former ANC Youth League leader known for chanting the slogan, “kill the boer, kill the farmer” during the struggle against apartheid.

Jackson Mthembu

Jackson Mthembu

“Let’s discuss appropriately on this matter. Don’t blame Julius. In fact, on this one, I will defend him,” ANC spokesperson Jackson Mthembu told Sapa by phone on Thursday morning.

“This song was sung for many years even before Malema was born… Julius doesn’t even know who’s the writer of the song. He got it from us [the ANC]. You must blame the ANC, don’t blame Julius. But when you blame the ANC, then contextualise it.”

Mthembu went to explain that the song really means to fight people of all colors who resist societal change, whom he called “cowards.”

“[It is about]… black people who were cowards… it means oppressive forces, it means those who are against transformation, those who are saying this ANC regime is against the ‘blanke volk’ [the white nation].

“There are some white people who say so, who say we were better off with white ‘volk’ in government.”

Mthembu drew a parallel between the ANC song and the recent song about the Boer general, “De la Rey,” even though that song does not advocate killing anyone.

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  1. mikemeyers says

    Well well

    They are using malema to voice their hearts discontent, they know mandela will soon die. Winnie mandela told a journalist about a week ago perhaps even a few days ago that mandela had sold his people down the river and that the whites were still in control and they are unhappy about this.

    The ANC fail to discipline malema for a few reasons, one he is a voice of the people and actually a good voice, he is letting the whites know what the PEOPLE think, who do you think listens to malema?

    The people.

    When he says kill the boers he is not refferring to the boers, he is referring to the whites in south africa, afrikaaners.

    They hate the whites for bringing civilization to south africa. And one cannot say it is because of apartheid, because they were killing whites in the 17th/18th century before apartheid was even thought of or the people who brought it in were born, so that blows that excuse out the water.

    If its there land, how did they survive in sub suharran africa, where water is scare and 75% of south africa is un farmable? In tropical zimbabwe and the whole of africa, they cannot farm or mass produce, so another feary tale passed on from generation to generation gone…..

    The time is here, the writing on the wall after this world cup in south africa i will be willing to bet than in less than a year they will start their massacre on steriods.

    The ANC said two days back that farm killings cannot be blamed on racial motivation, because killing is killing, now this Asshole malema just told us that the ANC as we have known for years was planning on and is going to pull this off.

    So we know the ANC is fulling this, the ANC said they will not do anything because if afrikaaners can sing about generals then they can sing about this, referring to the “de la rey song” but this is what the typical african brain cannot ever grasp, they lack logic in more ways than none.

    De la rey did not fight africans, perhaps they will blame us for not allowing them to print books in the 18th century and 19th century but he fought the british, unless they are britihs then this logic doesnt make any sense.

    The good thing is they are going to kill the whites whether you or i disagree the good news is then the 3 million whites can stop feeling sorry for them and stop feeling guilty, i hope they start on the whites that signed this country away and sold us down the river.

  2. expertman_2000 says

    Of course they defend it. That is why they are racists.

  3. georgetheatheist says

    Well, Dick. It’s got a nice beat AND you can dance to it. I give it a 9.

  4. Martin Luther says

    sounds like conservatives are now liberals? Personally I don’t give a shit if he wants to sing kill the farmers, kill the boers… anymore than Hal Turner calls for killing three Judges for being traitors. It just depends on whether you are a free speech constitutionalist, or one of the community socialist big nanny goverment freaks who want the goverment to determine who should say what and when? Shit… if FW de klerk got on stage to morrow and said kill K@affirs.. I’d fucking laugh at him, and give him 10 pennies to get himself a nother crack dealer… …

    So personally i think people should make up their minds about whether they are for free speech or not….?

    I never heard so many alleged conservatives screaming about ‘hate speech’???? Holy shit???? ‘Hate speech’ is what the catholic church accused Galileo about.. and Martin Luther…

    Wake up buddies.. and stick to your principles.. or admit you couldn’t much care for the principles and values those freedom fathers or voltaire et al valued…

  5. ron says

    Where the Liberal/Marxist media be at in covering this story?

  6. Nico says

    I agree, Malema the baboon is only saying what the ANC ask him to do. He is so stupid, that he will do Zuma’s dirty work for him. I bet he wears a dress when he goes to see zuma. Changes his name to julia and says, did I do good boss, before taking a shafting from old shower head.

  7. Philoctetes says

    Um Shini Wam

  8. mikemeyers says

    Martin Luther says

    sounds like conservatives are now liberals? Personally I don’t give a shit if he wants to sing kill the farmers, kill the boers… anymore than Hal Turner calls for killing three Judges for being traitors. It just depends on whether you are a free speech constitutionalist, or one of the community socialist big nanny goverment freaks who want the goverment to determine who should say what and when? Shit… if FW de klerk got on stage to morrow and said kill K@affirs.. I’d fucking laugh at him, and give him 10 pennies to get himself a nother crack dealer… …

    So personally i think people should make up their minds about whether they are for free speech or not….?

    I never heard so many alleged conservatives screaming about ‘hate speech’???? Holy shit???? ‘Hate speech’ is what the catholic church accused Galileo about.. and Martin Luther…

    Wake up buddies.. and stick to your principles.. or admit you couldn’t much care for the principles and values those freedom fathers or voltaire et al valued
    ——————————————————————————————————————-

    Yes obviously you are not listening or not wanting to listen

    Sorry but in a free speech society it doesn’t work like that at all, in Africa they say then they do, so its not free speech all he doing is telling people what will be!

    So can you call freedom of speech free when they do what they say?

    My friend you are smoking something else, if you say you are for free speech then we should be allowed to tell the truth that the Africans as a nation have produced nothing in terms of sustainability for themselves.

    But if free speech leads to murder it is not longer free speech but the medium for delivering that speech is being used as a weapon to arm the people as they are doing in south Africa.

    Helen zilla was for free speech in south Africa during apartheid you idiot! She does not sing kill people, killing people cannot be called FREE speech, because free speech goes hand in hand with democracy, and if i can say what i want then surly i should be able to act out what i want and have said.

    And if then i act out on free speech then i should not be jailed for killing people.

    Then we have to say hitler was right because he spoke his mind then acted on it, and then so is Mugabe and Iran

    That is why they call whites racist and dont let them say what they want, because you could have another Nazi uprising, Speach then action.

    You cannot do something without thinking it, and you people in africa say what they think and then follow it up, so this has nothing to do with free speech but more to do with what they want to accomplish

  9. Paul in VT. says

    How could anyone in SA take this Malema or Zuma seriously.I am sure not all the black S.Africans buy into the ANC’s brand of propoganda. Some have got to be as embarassed as alot of us are about Obama and his cronies although their propoganda is not of a violent nature unless you are approached in a shower by a nude Rahm Emanuel.
    I think the DA will make great strides in the next municipal elections in SA and hopefully from that turn the tide nationally,but it will be a long ,slow perhaps bloody process.

  10. Melda says

    Unless you are an African Black or White – you will not understand our mentalities. US black people are not “African” and have been “socialised and civilised” in a Western Democracy. A superior breed of people envied and hated by our Africans.
    Democracy is part of the title of a ruthless African tyranny.
    Africans only know and obey tyranny – the strong Big Man Cult worship.
    Rwanda incited its genocide with “cockroaches.”
    Zimbabwe uses “Colonialists” when its been in power 28 years !
    Liberation rulers only rule by threat of death. Those they Liberated and now brutalise, will be handed back to Colonials and they do not want THAT do they ? Electioneering tool that works keeps people happy to sarve and die of disease as their country is looted.

    Malema has a following of 25% of population under 25 years.
    He is 29 yrs old – a YOUTH ? Yes in Africa he is a youth.
    He is their YOUTH PRESIDENT – populist Big Man allowed freedom to say and do as he pleases. He looks after the “poor.” Speaks their speak and WALKS the privileged elite only – walk !
    Pro-poor he wears a watch R250,000, has 3 top range cars one Aston Martin. Has 2 mansions in Elite suburb. Has 3 companies from which he earned at least R3 mill and found to not have paid tax.
    He says he earns R20,000 pm has an education that would shame any Ghetto boy.
    Taxpayers fork out R3 mill pa to GUARD (status symbol of elite) him.
    He rants and raves about the rich, dictates to ANC on policy.
    ANC top brass keep quiet and quiver in fear.
    WHY ? Makes me quiver in fear from that fact alone.
    This lunatic megalomaniac – with Emperor complex – who likens himself to Mandela – does and WILL GET AWAY WITH MURDER post SWC.
    The real rapists are BLACK YOUTH who rape their grannies and toddlers. That is irrelevant – raping is part of their culture.
    He pretends to be a clown – so did IDI AMIN !

    Africans are more savage and barbaric than any other nation on earth.
    Civilization is a thin veneer. We still eat and use body parts for strength and virility (prime driving force) we rape toddlers and babies to cure our Aids disease. It does work so do not scorn us.
    As a white AFRICAN – 80 years old – with my ancestors from 17th century – I do know my people – their tribal culture, values and mores.
    I was taught at the feet of Xhosa tribal Madodas/elders, who told me that I was born on African soil from many ancestors – so I am
    “A child of our soil.”
    Xhosa – Zulu wars are legendary.
    Rural Xhosa still abduct maidens new in puberty, to marry old men who buy them from parents even today 12/3/2010.
    I know and understand, even accept, their belief that her youthful sex will give them long life. They are very sincere about it so who am I to mock this ancient wisdom ? They do grow very old as proof they outlive their wives.
    Africans are more cruel and self-destructive than the maiden who told the Nguni people to kill all their cattle to appease their ancestor called “MFECANE.” Its in our history.
    White South Africans are renowned for their foolish bravery against impossible odds.
    Except for our wimp cricketers – we never surrender ! White culture.
    Whites HANDED OVER our country to the ANC due to stupid politicians who sold out their followers. They have now had all their legal weapons confiscated by the Police Chief.
    No weapons in white hands – so we can go illegal route just like the criminals. We are being killed in our homes with the highest murder rate in the world. One third of all murders in SA are FARMERS (BOERS)
    Malema is calling for it – not so ? Quite legal.

    Freedom of speech ? Democracy ? Pretty words not in our dialect.
    EAT OR BE EATEN – KILL or BE KILLED – means survival in our African folklore.

  11. Melda says

    Elaboration of “Mfecane.”
    Wars between Zulu and Xhosa (Nguni tribes).
    In my childhood I learned isiXhosa fears of Zulu Warriors. Ingrained in my spirit. That logical fear led to a young maiden prophesying that if they “sacrificed” all their cattle – their ancestors would come to their rescue.
    They died from starvation as Africans do today.

    This tragic tale is playing out in Africa – Zimbabwe and South Africa.
    Kill the Boers who . . . . . .produce their staple food and starve.
    Africans are pastoral not agriculturist; other than subsistence farming.
    Miles and miles of fallow fertile soil lies idle in rural areas – as they prefer their cattle which is their wealth definition.

    Europeans do not understand African mentality and will never have enough resources to feed and heal this continent.
    We really are – our own worst enemies with our Mfecane.
    I say we and our as I write as an African.
    Google it and read it in Wikipedia.

  12. mikemeyers says

    This is a deep hatred which cannot be explained through politics, they hate the whites for producing what they have produced.

    They cannot believe that whites did not want to “share” the economy, as this was a bad thing for them.

    But imagine this scenario, earthlings go to a far country we call it “far away planet” on this far away planet we come accross far away people, called farawanians.

    They cannot remember their history, they cant build a straight wall, they kill, rape, murder and drink each others blood. They have not a single piece of written literature and they continue to offer sacrafices to their ancestors.

    So earthlings start a coloney there, but not to settle but live, the land they choose to live on on “far away planet” is subsaharran, its dry, no one survives there expept what looks like farawanians, but they are not quite like them, these people move up and down.

    The earthlings settle, they start building, some earthlings get these farawanians to help them build manuel labor, as their are not too many donkeys that can think. Before you know it, you have millions of farawanians moving in, infact too many, they steel your possessions, they rape your children, and they always seek to destroy the other tribal farawanians.

    By this time south of far away planet is built up, but now the farawanians says its unfair that the earthlings control south of far away planet and want equel positions, in terms of law, parlament, passing law, being treated as equels.

    They start their campaing, they out number the earthlings, back on planet earth, they see earthlings fighting these farawanians and now support them (but they have never lived with this farawanians)

    At the same time, some of these farawanians have been taken to earth and now somehow when they mix with earthlings they produce, but when you leave them alone, with their own kind nothing happens, they cannot feed themselves etc etc

    back on far away planet, the farawanians have been given equel rights, but now the whole of south far away planet starts to go back to how it was in the beginning, the only difference being that their are now buildings standing there.

    Many of the earthlings mix with the farawanians and think they were wrong with their polocies only because majority rules and all their logic is out the window. The farawanians now want payback, they dont allow the earthlings to do anything, you cant work because you have a white skin and the country is loosing money and more and more farawanians are dieing and not getting what they were promised in south far away planet.

    So they start blaming the earthlings chanting songs to kill them, because they are barbaric and have no more logic than a donkey, they all pray to their ancestors (demons) and they get the answer just like our prophet muhammed gives the ninjas carrying back packs.

    So they do this and far away planet goes back the way it was.

    the only solution is to have a seperate society and get rid of any that cross into south far away planet regardless of what the immoral earthlings say.

    Earthlings will think what they will and we will have south far away land.

    End of story.

    Two centuries later history repeats itself now that planet earth is filled with these farawanians, now the eathlings are out numbered somehow the earthlings dont know what happened, because they were treating them as equels all along.

    They didnt see the big picture all at once, because the water got hot slowly they couldnt and didnt know the difference between being boiled alive. Had someone dropped them in the boiling water they would have know it was hot, but boiling it slowly they couldnt feel it.

    Had they been dumped in far away planet for 5 years they would have recognised the patter which we had known about for four hundred years know they understand that education cannot make up for common sense. We knew how they were and you thought we were old fashioned but now you have to live with the nightmare

  13. Melda says

    @mikemeyers
    Thank you its poetic; I really enjoyed your analogy and metaphors. It gives the status quo without the usual ‘us and them ‘bigotry that is interpreted according to skin hue. Our BOERE(farmers) are tanned so dark from the merciless African Sun – they would be ‘coloured’ in USA.

    I repeat – you need to be African born and bred from centuries past ancestors to understand the deep tragic drama that Africa plays out in its penchant for self-destruction.
    This continent is cursed and is God-forsaken, is my only conclusion – as TV screens reveal the suffering of its destitute inhabitants.

    The irony is that in my country – man’s origin was discovered.
    The original Adam and Eve came from a few miles from my home.
    This heritage site is now being considered by the ANC to grant MINING rights.

    The bread basket province that is unique in fertility and climate with guaranteed rainfall – in a harsh African environment – farms being expropriated for a Coal Mine which is owned by politicians and family. ANC think we can eat coal it seems.
    Mine acids will flow in rivers that reach half way into the country to irrigate and give life to a dry province. (Vaal river to Free State Dams.)
    ie. a US river that flows into your Hoover Dam being filled with toxic mine waste with no recourse by US citizens.

    ANC also wants to turn the Western Province (grain, wheat and wine producing) the first inhabited area in SA – into tin mining – already proven to be low yield.
    ANC owns the company. This is being contested with vigour.
    This is another Mfecane in progress – MINING RIGHTS given by greedy politicians who also want to Nationalise all the mines.

    Why is this Continent cursed with so much mineral wealth at the disposal of greedy, rapacious Tyrants and Capitalist thugs who keep the population in poverty and disease ?

    SA, once a food export producer by (BOERE) and 1st World country the most powerful in Africa – the last foothold of White citizens –
    is being destroyed by ANC – Black African Politicians.
    It was handed over to ANC on a silver platter and fast becoming a failed state as anarchy reigns in the townships from lack of service delivery. Sewage pouring into streets, education and health collapsing.
    Whites are blamed by politicians.

    Soon we will import food from the Congo basin that has lured 150 of our BOERE to develop idle farms, teach Congolese to farm and ensure their Food Security. The land is given free, no import tax on farming equipment. Congolese state that South African BOERE are the most successful on the continent, as they have the skills and know the hardships of farming in the vagaries of Africa’s climate.
    Our BOERE have already worked out methods to adapt to Global warming and they are dying in a silent genocide.
    The web has many sites proving, with photographs, the gruesome murders. Mfecane.

    These are the people the ANC want to KILL and SHOOT.
    Africans in soul and spirit but they are cursed as Non-African !
    BTW its not “racists” but “RAPISTS” that is used in the song.

    ANC yesterday – denies that SHOOT THE BOER was sung by Malema.
    There is TV footage that must have been dreamed up.
    Winnie Mandela denies the interview slating Mandela.
    A world renowned Journalist wrote her biography and the author is a liar.
    The nation will believe its broad ANC church and massive following.
    MO –
    Vote ANC –
    the day after begin burning the townships demanding service delivery.
    Only in Africa.

  14. Melda says

    Update on Winnie Mandela and ANC who deny she said anything.

    The Evening Standard said the conversation with Madikizela-Mandela was conducted with Nadira Naipaul, wife of Nobel literature laureate V.S. Naipaul.
    “Nadira Naipaul is a distinguished journalist who visited Winnie Mandela at home and spoke to her at length about her experiences,” the newspaper said in a statement Friday. “Nadira and her husband, the writer Sir V.S. Naipaul, are photographed with Winnie Mandela and this picture was printed with the article.
    We cannot understand Winnie Mandela’s denial of an event and conversation which clearly took place.”

    South Africans are experts at denial and their followers – who are all that matter on earth – will believe whatever ANC says.
    “SHEEPLE.”

  15. Melda says

    69 year old farmer in Malema’s fiefdom – killed 3 days after sing-song.
    Stabbed and shot several times – nothing stolen.
    SILENT GENOCIDE under guise of crime !
    ANC is complicit in the killings since 2000.

  16. JAMES BNPMEMBER says

    I have one word to say to the blacks, who think the white man it a push over,who kill 1600 boers yearly, that murder british in citys, who lie to them selves in order to lie to others, who 90% of them FBI figures,in usa murder whites,yet represent 15 % poplulation,who think that when MANDELA dies it will be a free for all,in regard to whites,who use the term, of transistion politics,what a laugh, to justify the murder of whites ,that have the moralists, liberal, wankers crawling up your arse, that have the labour UK,conservatives, in thier pockets.YOUR DAYS ARE NUMBER,NOW LOOK BELOW AT THE WORD/ AND KNOW FEAR

    BNP

  17. James says

    @Martin Luther
    Hehehe, I am going to have a laugh riot when these free speaking black chappies rape a couple of white foreign girls during the soccer world cup, cause thats the only culture they have. Hopefully you get fcuk as well, jou poes.

  18. HJ says

    In any civilized democratic country Malema would have been in jail for sowing and propagating racial hatred between races and against minorities.
    Shame on the South African government and shame on the president wo tolerates this.

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