Lerato Mbhiza
FORMER president Thabo Mbeki has questioned why the EFF leader Julius Malema insists on singing the struggle chant “kill the Boer, kill the farmer”, saying there was no political context for singing it in the current day South Africa.
Mbeki was speaking during a conversation with students at the University of South Africa, where he serves as Chancellor.
Malema chanted the song in the presence of almost 100 000 supporters during the EFF’s 10th birthday rally at the FNB Stadium last month.
Mbeki said the chant was made popular by former ANC Youth League President Peter Mokaba in the early 1990s, but added that there was no ANC policy calling for the slaughter of white people or Boers.
The Equality Court heard and accepted that “Boer” referred to in “kill the Boer” was the oppressive system of apartheid, and not necessarily white people or farmers.
“It was there
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