New Anthem Just Dropped: “Kill the Farmer (But Gently, Constitutionally),” By Eric Ruger (Cape Town)
Good news out of South Africa! The government has officially clarified that chanting "Kill the Boer, kill the farmer" is not hate speech or incitement, it's just a vibe. A historical "liberation chant." Like "Kumbaya," except with more machetes.
President Cyril Ramaphosa, who clearly moonlights as a spoken-word poet, has reassured the world that this bloodcurdling slogan, screamed at political rallies while people hold up red fists and sing about shooting to kill, isn't meant to provoke violence. It's more like an edgy nursery rhyme. Nothing to worry about.
We were all just reading the room wrong, you see.
Donald Trump made the rookie mistake of watching videos of Julius Malema yelling the chant into microphones at stadiums filled with red-shirted revolutionaries. Trump called for Malema's arrest. Silly man, doesn't he understand nuance? Malema wasn't calling for farmers to be murdered. He was just reminding them to check their white privilege while being murdered. Big difference.
But here's where it gets rich.
The South African government has made it very clear that they won't tolerate any "misinformation" campaigns by Afrikaner groups. You know, like posting statistics about farm murders. That's apparently treason. Because freedom of speech, as we all know, applies only to songs about killing people, not to anyone pointing out that people are actually being killed.
Let's pause to applaud this breakthrough in human rights theory:
Chanting "Kill the Boer" = free expression.
Saying "Please don't kill the Boer" = incitement to treason.
Beautiful stuff. Very advanced jurisprudence. The Constitutional Court has apparently ruled that metaphors about killing farmers are empowering. Because what better way to heal from apartheid than to hint at new rounds of political violence? After all, nothing says "rainbow nation" like singing about blood.
So where does this leave us?
Perhaps the UN should adopt some new guidelines for identifying hate speech. Here's a rough draft:
UN Guidelines for Acceptable Chants (2025)
– "Kill the Boer" – Liberation Anthem
– "Defend White Farmers" –Colonial Gaslighting
– "Free Palestine" – International Solidarity
– "End Gender Ideology" –Hate Speech
– "Eat the Rich" –Class Consciousness
– "Vote Republican" –Fascism Rising
In fact, maybe South Africa can lead the way by releasing a commemorative album:
Now That's What I Call Liberation, Vol. 94
Tracklist:
1.Kill the Boer (Malema Remix)
2.Shoot to Kill (Constitutional Acoustic Version)
3.Cry Me a Treason Charge (Afrikaner Blues)
4.Freedom of Speech (But Not for You)
5.Mandela's Ghost ft. DJ Irony
It's all a reminder that justice, in the age of relativism, anti-white racism and selective outrage, is whatever the ruling party says it is. And "free speech" is a right only for those who chant in tune with the revolution.
But don't worry. No one really means "Kill the Boer." It's just traditional poetry.
See, we Boers, even in the face of racial genocide still have our famous sense of humour!
"South African President Cyril Ramaphosa defended the "Kill the Boer" slogan as a "liberation chant" Tuesday, refusing U.S. President Donald Trump's demand to arrest opposition figure Julius Malema for using it.
Last Wednesday, during a meeting in the Oval Office, Trump accused South Africa of "genocide" and showed a video of Malema and his Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party chanting "Kill the Boer," "Kill the farmer," "Shoot to kill," and other violent slogans at large rallies. Trump said that Malema ought to be arrested for incitement. Malema responded by repeating the slogan, both online and in another rally Sunday.
Ramaphosa denied that there was a "genocide" taking place — though others, like South Africa's Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein, later said the term "genocide" was appropriate, given the fact that over 650,000 people had been murdered since 1994.
"It is not a white genocide, it is not a black genocide, it is a human genocide," Goldstein said, noting that Ramaphosa never condemned the "Kill the Boer" chant, even in the Oval Office.
South Africa's judicial system has failed to enforce the law against Malema — even though South Africa's constitution, which guarantees freedom of expression, specifically prohibits "advocacy of hatred that is based on race, ethnicity, gender or religion, and that constitutes incitement to cause harm."
Reporters confronted Ramaphosa on Tuesday at a conference in Cape Town about Trump's demand, and this was his response:
When it comes to the issues of arresting anyone, for any slogan, that is a sovereign issue. It's not a matter where we need to be instructed by anyone that, "Go and arrest this one." We are very proud, sovereign country that has its own laws, that has its own processes, and we take into account what the Constitutional Court also decided, when it said that, you know that slogan, "Kill the Boer, kill the farmer," is a liberation chant and slogan, and it's not meant to be a message that elicits or calls upon anyone to go and be killed. And that is what our court decided. So they will probably want to arrest people willy-nilly. We follow the dictates of our constitution. Because we are a constitutional state, and we are a country where freedom of expression is the bedrock of our constitutional arrangement.
Ironically, the South African government is currently investigating Afrikaner groups for "treason" for using their freedom of expression to raise awareness of the plight of white farmers, both at home and in the U.S.
A minister representing Ramaphosa reiterated earlier this month that the government considered such "misinformation" to be a "treasonous act," despite constitutional guarantees of the freedom of expression."
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