About “Kill the Buren” vocals in Trump's South Africa 'White Vocide' Video

Washington:

Before US President Donald Trump welcomed his South African counterpart Cyril Ramaphosa to the Oval Office on Wednesday, the helper of the White House had set up two large-scale TVs in the west wing. The stage was ready for what Western media described as “ambush”, as Trump soon asked the staff to reduce the lights and play a video from which he claimed that he had committed the genocide against white people in South Africa and caused the farmers to flee the USA.

The four-minute video, which was played on a large screen, showed that the legislator of the South African fire, Julius Malema, the left opposition opposition legislator Julius Malema “Kill the Boer, Kill the Farmer”-a notorious singing from the apartheid period. It ended with pictures of a protest in South Africa, in which white crosses were placed on a rural roadside to represent murdered farmers – which Trump falsely said her graves.

Trump Demande des Coptes au président de l'Afrique du sud Cyril Ramaphosa au sujet de tous ces fermiers blancs massacrés par Milliers dans son pays depuis des décennies. Il Lui Montre La Vidéo Dans Laquelle Julius Malema warned Ses -Militante à Tuer Les Blancs: “Kill the Boers”. pic.twitter.com/xetou6xx4a

– Hervé Ryssen (@insumix2) May 22, 2025

“They allow them to take land, and when they take the country, they kill the white farmer, and when they kill the white farmers, nothing happens to them,” said Trump and accused Ramaphosa.

The extraordinary stunt converted the normally constant diplomatic environment of the oval office into a stage, in which Trump's claim that white South African farmers are forced and killed by their country.

However, the South African President remained calm and made Trump's claims.

“No, no, no. Nobody can take land,” said Ramaphosa when he insisted that most victims of the notoriously high crime rate of South Africa are black and said that the politicians in the video came from the opposition.

However, he didn't seem to convince Trump, who drowned him when he tried to speak.

But this is not the first time that Malema's “Kill the Boer, Kill the Farmer” Heutout created a turmoil in the United States. In February at the beginning of this year, Trump's billionaire, who born in South Africa, used an old video by Julius Malema to drive his “white genocide” claims.

Who is Julius Malema

Julius Malema is the head of the economic freedom fighter (Eff), the third largest party in South Africa. The opposition leader is known for radical statements and is committed to land supplies and wealth distribution. His guidelines have supported many South African inhabitants, who feel economically excluded even after the end of apartheid. The Eff secured 11 percent of the votes in the last national elections.

Malema made the controversial “Kill the Boer, killed the farmer” during the rally of the Eff of the Eff in July 2023, where he told the supporters: “We take the government in 2024. The revolution in South Africa is guaranteed.”

What does “kill the Boers, kill the farmers”?

The vocals are historically connected to Peter Mokaba, a former youth leader of the African National Congress (ANC). It is rooted in the anti-apartheid fight of the nineties. Mokaba, who died in 2002, argued that it was more of a metaphor than a literal call to violence.

In 2022, the South African Equal Opportunities Court decided that the slogan did not represent hate speech as part of the legal framework of the country.

Musk's criticism of singing

In February, Musk, who was born in South Africa's capital Pretoria, divided a video of Malema with the notorious vocals of his X and wrote: “He sings 'Kill the white farmers' into a guided stadium.”

In response to this, Malema defended the singing and argued that it was part of South Africa's political history and not violence.