South African Constitutional Court: “Kill the Boer, Kill the Farmer” is Not Hate Speech – Trump Administration Drops Military Aid to South Africa

 

The South African Constitutional Court has rejected a lawsuit by civil rights org AfriForum against the song “Kill the Boer” as sung by the Marxist “Economic Freedom Fighters”, saying it has “no reasonable prospects of success.” The Trump administration has cut all aid and military assistance to South Africa over its blatantly racist and discriminatory laws.

According to the Sunday Times, the Trump administration has cut military assistance and cooperation with the South African National Defence Force (SANDF), expelling its military attache Brigadier Gen. Richard Maponyane. The paper cited a memo dated March 13 from the US State Department to Aaron Harding, the CFO of America’s Defense Security Co-operation Agency (DCSA). Any South African military personnel in the US for training will be sent back to South Africa ASAP, Business Insider reported.

The Trump administration announced it was suspending US aid to South Africa February 8 over its race-based expropriation law and persecution of ethnic minorities. South Africa’s US Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool was kicked out of the USA after accusing US President Donald Trump of leading a “global white supremacy movement.”

EFF leader Julius Malema called everyone who complains of a “white genocide” in South Africa “racist” and told them to leave the country before singing the “struggle song” Kill the Boer, Kill the Farmer with a crowd of 60,000 dancing supporters on “Human Rights Day” March 21.

A 30-year old farmer was tortured to death by 3 men in police uniforms the next day.

In a post on X March 24, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio criticized the song: “Kill the Boer” is a chant that incites violence. South Africa’s leaders and politicians must take action to protect Afrikaner and other disfavored minorities. The United States is proud to offer those individuals who qualify admission to our nation amid this continued horrible threat of violence,” Rubio wrote.

 

Civil rights organisation AfriForum, which is currently lobbying the Trump administration and Congress in Washington, condemned the decision to “legalize calls for the murder of Afrikaners and farmers.” AfriForum was appealing against two previous rulings that legalized the singing of “Kill the Boer” (The Gateway Pundit reported).

In his book “Kill the Boer: Government Complicity in South Africa’s Brutal Farm Murders“, author Ernst Roets has demonstrated how singing of the song “Kill the Boer” at rallies coincides with spikes in farm murders.

AfriForum CEO Kallie Kriel said that after the end of Apartheid 1994, the impression was created that the Constitutional Court would protect human rights –  including the human rights of Afrikaners. “After this shocking court ruling, we see that this is no longer the case. We are seeing an increasing radical implementation of the Constitution. We see an increase in ideologically driven judges. However, we are not going to become discouraged. We take clear notice of this – we also take notice of the fact that President Cyril Ramaphosa and the government do not want to condemn the statements of ‘Kill the Boer’,” Kriel said.

AfriForum said it will reinforce local community watch intitatives and instructed its legal team to investigate the various international platforms through which it can continue its legal action. “Having exhausted all local legal remedies, AfriForum will now continue its fight internationally,” AfriForum stated.

“This internationalization will involve more than just taking legal action. It will also include an intensified effort to draw the attention of international authorities and opinion leaders to the fact that according to South African courts, it is acceptable to encourage the murder of Afrikaners and farmers, while President Cyril Ramaphosa and his government refuse to condemn these calls for violence,” Kriel said.

The Democratic Alliance (DA) party called the court decision “unacceptable and divisive.”

“The inflammatory “Kill the Boer” chant has no place in our society, regardless of any legal ruling on its constitutionality. The fact that this song continues to be sung by Julius Malema and other political figures is deeply troubling and unacceptable,” the DA stated, noting the song “incites violence, stokes hatred, and deepens divisions within our society. We should be working towards unity and healing, and songs like this only serve to deepen the rifts that still exist in our country.”

Writing on Visegrad24, AfriForum spokesman Ernst van Zyl noted that “South Africa’s government is turning race into a weapon, and it’s destroying the nation from within. Jobs, aid, even basic services are all being sacrificed on the altar of racial dogma.”

“Both President Donald Trump and Elon Musk recently called out the South African government for its threats to private property and its many race-based laws – and rightly so,” Ernst van Zyl wrote. “For decades, the African National Congress (ANC) has steadily imposed an ever-growing set of race-driven policies while openly threatening citizens with expropriation without compensation.”

Van Zyl accused the ruling ANC of “racially discriminatory policies … dating as far back as the 1990s … carefully packaged in flowery language,” such as the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment race quotas.

Van Zyl called “South Africa’s obsession with race-based policies no secret – it’s a matter of record.”

AfriForum compiled comprehensive reports in 2020 and 2022 detailing the government’s racially discriminatory policies, Van Zyl noted.

Martin van Staden, Head of Policy at the Free Market Foundation, has documented more than 141 race-based laws still in force today, Van Zyl wrote. Nearly 37% (116+) were introduced after 1994.

“The ANC continues to cynically attempt to direct everyone’s eyes to the rear-view mirror, while simultaneously championing its own laundry list of race laws. Its twisted reasoning boils down to digging a new pothole to fill an old one. Fortunately, leaders like Donald Trump appear not to be falling for their twisted narrative anymore,” wrote Van Zyl.

Pioneer Initiative activist Ernst Roets on his recent trip to America, and his conversation with Ben Shapiro:

 

Ernst Roets speaks to Jack Posobiec on South Africa:

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