Analysis: A far-left South African political party staged a massive rally, where a faction leader belted out the apartheid-era song “Kill the Boer.' The event set U.S. right-wing social media aflame, with Elon Musk raising the specter of 'white genocide.'
Over the weekend, the Economic Freedom Fighters, a far-left South African political party, staged a massive rally in Johannesburg to celebrate its 10th anniversary.Julius Malema, appeared onstage in his trademark red beret and belted out an apartheid-era song, in a raucous call and response with the thousands in attendance. To someone unfamiliar with Malema’s demagoguery, the words were startling: “Shoot to kill,” he intoned. “Kill the Boer” — a term for white Afrikaners — “kill the farmer.
In the United States, news of the event set right-wing social media aflame. Benny Johnson, a far-right provocateur with a large following, tweeted a video of Malema singing and suggested that the proceedings were “all downstream from the rotten secular religion of wokeness … plaguing America today” — seemingly oblivious to the possibility that the chant could be the product of a country with a vastly different political history than that of the United States.
There’s little new about a far-left rally featuring such a song, which Malema revived years ago while leader of the youth wing of the African National Congress, South Africa’s sole ruling party since the fall of apartheid. It taps into Black grievance over a long history of land theft, discrimination and repression under white minority rule, as well as Malema’s own agenda to expropriate white-owned farmland.
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