South Africa rejects demand that Trump arrest Malema with a chant “kill farmers”
JOHANNESBURG – South African President Cyril Ramaphosa fought back against the president on Tuesday Donald TrumpThe demand that opposition politician Julius Malema should be arrested has repeatedly chanted “kill farmers.”
Also on Tuesday, a senior politician within the South African government said he chanted “inflamed hatred” with Fox News Digital and called for “legal consequences.”
Last week, in the White House oval office, President Trump had a video showing Malema playing the chant shown to the then-visited Ramaphosa. Trump told South African leaders that Malema should be arrested.
On Sunday, Malema, the leader of the Economic Freedom Soldier (EFF) party, who pulled out less than 10% of the vote in South Africa’s election last May and is not part of the national unity government, told crowds of thousands at a meeting in South Africa’s Free State.
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Julius Malema, leader of economic freedom fighters, has once again called for “kill Bohr” at a recent rally in South Africa. (Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Just four days after the president’s call, Malema began the chant again, yelling, “I will kill and kill. I will kill the peasant Boers (African farmers).” The Africans are descendants of Dutch settlers who first arrived in South Africa in 1652.
Apparently they wanted to emphasize rebellion, Malema recited, “I will kill the peasants again.”
Reacting to President Trump seeking Malema’s arrest, President Ramaphosa He told reporters Tuesday that he had no plans to detain EFF leaders. “It doesn’t matter that we need to direct this from someone who will arrest (Malema) and arrest us. We are a very proud sovereign country with our own laws.
Ramaphosa continued that the South African slogan “Kill Boer and Kill the Peasants,” which corresponds to South Africa’s Supreme Court, was “determined to be a chant and slogan of liberation” decades ago. Critics point out Malema It is located at the South African Judicial Services Commission – the agency that appoints judges here.
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Cyril Ramaphosa will make waves when he arrives on Wednesday, June 19, 2024, prior to his inauguration as president of Union Buildings in Tshwane, South Africa. (Pool photo via Kim Ludbrook/AP)
All of this has opposed President Trump’s background, accusing South Africa of genocide against farmers, entitled 49 white people to fly to the United States as refugees.
“The chant has no place in democratic South Africa,” Ian Cameron of the Democratic Alliance (DA) Party told Fox News Digital. DA is South Africa’s major opposition. They are members of the National Unified Government, and Cameron is chairman of the Portfolio Committee on Police.
Cameron said that Malema, who will sing again this weekend, “continue to divide society and continue to burn hatred and mistrust. South Africa It’s very unique. The brutal attack continues in rural areas, but he sings the song with pride, with many of his supporters openly celebrating the violence on social media. ”
The cross is planted on the hillside of the White Cross monument marking the white farmer killed in a farm murder in Isterburg near Langebaan, South Africa on October 31, 2017. (Gulshan Khan/AFP via Gutty Images)
“I believe it Julius Malema’s repeated instigation– Crossing the dangerous and unacceptable lines, especially through songs like “Kill the Boer,” Cameron continued. At the very least, the inciting violence should have a legal impact, and our judicial system must act without fear or favor. ”
Ramaphosa said people will not arrest “Willy Nilly,” adding on Tuesday that “we are the country where freedom of expression is the foundation of constitutional arrangements.”
This is not a step-by-step Malema recorded saying, “I sing whenever I want.”
Fox News Digital reached out to Malema, but there was no response.
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The attacks on both white and black farmers here are genuine. “I was personally standing in the aftermath of these attacks. I stepped into a scene similar to meat, remembering the farm where the victim’s claw marks were still buried in the carpet where they were dragged and tortured.