South African President Cyril Ramaphosa sat in embarrassing silence in the Oval Hall on Wednesday, while listening to a video screened by President Donald Trump that included a clip of opposition politician Julius Malema shouting “Dubul ‘Ibhunu”, a phrase in Zulu meaning “kill the bôer”.
Africaners, also known as boheres, are descendants of predominantly white Dutch settlers in South Africa. An apartheid discriminatory government led by Africanks has lost power in the mid -1990s.
Malema, who was expelled from the party in power, the African National Congress (CNA), for more than a decade, leads the Party Combatants for Economic Freedom (EFF).
The song Malema sang in the video by Trump first aired in the 1980s to protest Apartheid, who forcibly expropriated the South Africans of their land for the benefit of whites.
Music became popular again by the radical politician and his leftist party EFF.
The Africanic AFRIFORUM Defense Group accused the group of instigating violence against white South Africans.
The sentence had already been described as a form of hatred speech by a South African court in 2010. However, this decision was annulled in 2022 and, in March, the South African Constitutional Court reaffirmed the 2022 decision, saying that the words of music should not be literally interpreted.
Persistent inequality in South Africa gave rise to populist parties such as EFF, which helped boost the land expropriation agenda in the country.
This content was originally published on a video that Trump showed Ramaphosa included antiapartheid song on CNN Brazil.
Source: CNN Brasil
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