A gaggle of white Afrikaners marched to the US Embassy on Friday, 28 March, calling for the arrest of Julius Malema. This follows the EFF chief’s controversial efficiency of the Apartheid wrestle track, Kill The Boer, final week.
The track has sparked outrage around the globe, together with criticism by the world’s richest man, Elon Musk.
In the meantime, the Constitutional Court docket has upheld the ruling that the track is taken into account freedom of speech.
AFRIKANERS MARCH TO US EMBASSY
On Friday, a contingent of white Afrikaners, mobilised by the Black Monday activist group, marched to the US Embassy handy over one other memorandum.
This included their issues over farm killings, “racist legal guidelines” like BEE, Expropriation Invoice and the Bela Invoice, and Julius Malema singing Kill The Boer.
The group carried placards that learn: “Malema must go to jail” and “100% white genocide”. One other learn: “Make South Africa Nice Once more.”
One of many audio system who addressed the group mentioned: “31 years after the tip of Apartheid, we’re nonetheless blamed for the federal government’s failures.
“We’re singled out because the frequent enemy, usually to disguise battle black cultural teams.
“South Africa has grow to be a really polarised and divided society with racist and hate speech focused in opposition to white folks, with none prosecution.”
Additionally addressing the group was controversial politician Dan Roodt, whose tweet over a pilot who died within the Saldanha Bay Airshow final week went viral for all of the mistaken causes.
Roodt stood by claims that there was a “white genocide” within the nation.
MALEMA MOCKS CRITICS WITH ‘KILL THE BOER’ COURT RULING
In the meantime, the Constitutional Court docket has upheld the Equality Court docket’s ruling that Kill The Boer was not hate speech or incitement of violence.
It additionally denied the Afrikaner activist group AfriForum go away to attraction in opposition to it.
In 2022, the Equality Court docket dominated that the track was “protected beneath South Africa’s freedom of speech and expression legal guidelines and ought to be thought of a political assertion somewhat than a literal name to violence.”
Julius Malema reposted the Constitutional Court docket’s stance this week, tagging each Elon Musk and US President Donald Trump.
“Attempt me, boys,” he tweeted.
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