Trump emphasizes South Africa 'Kill the Boer' Chant: What should know

In a tense meeting of the White House with the South African leader Cyril Ramaphosa, President Donald Trump showed film material from two South African politicians who “kill the Boers, the farmers”.

Trump wanted to know why they hadn't been arrested because of the singing, which goes back to the anti-apartheid movement.

The context

Ramaphosa met on Wednesday in the Oval Office with Trump, in the middle of high tensions between the two countries, namely the classification of Afrikaans farmers in America as the victim of a “white genocide” and “refugees”.

When the couple arrived this topic, Trump held the meeting to play a video that “White Valcid Mord” claimed.

The four -minute clip contained a series of excerpts from Jacob Zuma, the head of Umkhonto Wesizwe (once the fighting wing of the African National Congress) and Julius Malema, the head of the economic freedom (effimger), the “kill the farmers, the farmers, the farmers who were plagued by the landing and frequent whom the issue of Holudisigisiation -ausiguis can, with the edition in which the edition in which he is devoting himself to the issue of affropriation, with the output of lanes in which he gives up, with the issue in which it is the output.

Ramaphosa replied and said that the speeches of the growing growing leaders of the opposition party “are not a government policy” and added: “Our government policy was completely against what he (Malema) said.”

“They are a small minority party,” added Ramaphosa before shouting the murder of white farmers to “crime in our country”.

South African Minister of Agriculture John Henry Steenhuisen also replied and said: “We have a real security problem in South Africa. I don't think someone wants to do the cutting -edge coating.”

He later added: “The two people who are in this video they saw are both leaders of the opposition minority parties in South Africa Umkhonto Wesizwe under Mr. Zuma and the economic freedom fighter under Mr. Malema.”

“Now the reason why my party The Democratic Alliance (da), which has been an opposition party for over 30 years, decided to join Mr. Ramaphosa's party was exactly to keep these people from power.”

When a member of the American Press Ramaphosa asked whether he condemned the language used in the video, he replied: “Oh yes, we always did it … We are completely against it.”

Trump then threw the question: “But why won't you arrest this man?”

The courts of South Africa have dealt with this question for more than two decades – here is everything you need to know about it.

History of 'killing the Boers'

The expression comes from an anti-apartheid-isixhosa protest singing-“Dubul 'Ibhunu”, which directly translates as “Kill the Boer”.

It was sung in protest against white minority rule, which the segregation enforced and the South Africans of the grounds of the color of political rights, freedom of movement, access to high -quality education, healthcare and country

It was widespread in the 1980s and 1990s during the highlight of the anti-apartheid fight.

Malema started again in 2010 to sing the song in 2010 when he was head of the ANC youth league, according to the South African outlet die Daily Maverick.

In response to this, the Afrikaans Civil Rights Group Afriiforum Malema and the ANC brought to court, which was the beginning of a long -term legal dispute over the singing, about which the Supreme Court was decided on March 27 of this year.

What South African dishes about “killing the Buren”

Although the South African Supreme Court decided only a few weeks ago and had issued a final rejection of the vacation to a call, the core of the case was decided in 2022 when the South Africa Equal Opportunities Court decided that the singing was not hate speech.

Malema argued that the vocals were not literally, but that he “was aimed at the system of oppression”.

As an example of this, he said how the black police drove into the black communities with police cars, used to ran and said that the 'Buren', even if there were no white people in the vans, “judge Edwin Molahlehi, who was summarized in his judgment.

Malema “said he understood (the singing) to refer to farmers who represent the face of the country penalty.”

Malema “also accepted that the vocals were intended to rob and mobilize the youth to be interested in the struggle for economic freedom,” wrote Molahlehi.

In the meantime, Afriiforum argued that the vocals are sung “in an climate or in an environment in which farmers are frequently tortured and murdered, and this is a good reason to assume that Mr. Malema and Eff sang the people to kill farmers and the promotion of hatred due to breed and ethnicity and fur.”

While Molahlehi found that the vocals “as insulting and undermined the political establishment”, he decided that Afriforum could not show that the texts in the songs could be interpreted sensibly in order to demonstrate a clear intention, damage or harm damage in order to harm and propagate hatred. “

The decision did not prohibit the controversy about the singing with the DA, the long -standing official opposition party in South Africa, in a statement at the beginning of this year that “it has no place in our society, regardless of any legal decision on its constitutionality”.

“This type of split language not only harms at the local level, but also international effects,” said the party. “South Africa's reputation on the global stage is at risk if such hatred is tolerated openly, which makes our country more susceptible to an external exam.”

“We cannot afford to polarize our society or undermine the international reputation that we struggled so hard,” added.

Newsweek has contacted Ramaphosa's spokesman via e -mail to get a comment.