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‘Clear intention to incite harm’: Malema found guilty of hate speech for 2022 rally remarks | News24 The Equality Court, sitting in the Western Cape High Court in Cape Town, found EFF leader Julius Malema guilty of hate speech on Wednesday.

Judge Mark Sher: “Calling for someone to be killed because they are a racist who has acted violently, is an act of vigilantism and an incitement of the most extreme form of harm possible.”

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South Africa’s Malema banned from entering UK over remarks about white people South African leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) Julius Malema, central to a row over race relations in the country, has been denied entry to the United Kingdom (UK). The UK’s home office said Malema had been deemed “non-conducive to the public good” and that it was “undesirable” to grant him entry. In a letter released by Malema’s party, the home office cited his vocal support for Hamas, including a speech he made after the 7 October attacks in which he said his own party would arm the group if it came to power. The UK said Malema had made “statements calling for the slaughter of white people or hinted that it could be an acceptable option in the future”, and also cited this as a reason for rejecting his visa request. The EFF, which came fourth in South Africa’s parliamentary election last year, condemned the decision as “cowardice” and said it would stifle democratic debate. The EFF said the UK had distorted Malema’s views on how the “genuine frustrations of Africans who are excluded [from the economy] at the behest of a white minority may lead to social violence and resistance” in South Africa. Malema and the party would not “trade” their “revolutionary beliefs in exchange for a visa”, the EFF said. “The UK and all its allies can keep their visas, and we will keep our Africa and a commitment to support the oppressed of the world, especially the Palestinian people,” the party added. Malema featured prominently in a video played last month by president Donald Trump during a visit by South African president Cyril Ramaphosa to the White House. In the video, Malema is seen singing ‘Shoot to Kill’ and ‘Kill the Boer’, which Trump says incites violence against the ethnic Afrikaner group. However, South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeal has ruled that the lyrics do not amount to hate speech and were a “provocative way” of advancing the EFF’s political agenda – which was to end “land and economic injustice” . The court added that a “reasonably well-informed person” would understand that when “protest songs are sung, even by politicians, the words are not meant to be understood literally, nor is the gesture of shooting to be understood as a call to arms or violence”. Malema is a fierce critic of what he sees as “Western imperialism”, and advocates the nationalisation of white-owned land in South Africa to address the legacy of colonialism and the racist system of apartheid. White-minority rule ended in South Africa in 1994, with the rise of Nelson Mandela and his African National Congress (ANC) to power. This is the second time Malema has been denied entry to the UK in just two months. The first time the UK government said he had submitted his application too late – this time, a British official in South Africa told the BBC it was a “substantive decision”. The home office said he has no right of appeal and was likely to be denied any future applications, according to the letter released by the EFF. A home office spokesperson told the BBC: “It is our longstanding policy not to comment on individual cases.” Some of Malema’s critics in South Africa are likely to welcome the UK’s decision, and will hope that he will be more cautious in his public statements in the future. But his supporters are likely to argue that he is being targeted for expressing views that the UK finds uncomfortable. Official statistics show that South Africa’s unemployment rate has risen to 33%, with black people being worst-affected. The EFF’s support-base, made up largely of young people, believes that more radical action is needed to tackle racial inequality and injustices. The party got less than 10% of the vote in last year’s election, and fell from third to fourth spot after losing support mostly to former president Jacob Zuma’s uMkhonto weSizwe (Spear of the Nation) party. – BBC The post South Africa’s Malema banned from entering UK over remarks about white people appeared first on The Namibian.

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WATCH: Malema should apologise for 'Kill the Boer' chant — Trump advisor | The Citizen Pastor Mark Burns said Malema singing the song is "hurting my white brothers and sister" in SA.

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ICYMI: 'He failed to protect the Constitution' - Malema on Ramaphosa's White House meeting While addressing supporters in the Free State on Sunday ahead of Wednesday's by-elections in Kwakwatsi, EFF leader Julius Malema said President Cyril Ramaphosa failed to protect the country’s image…

WATCH: 'He failed to protect the Constitution' - #JuliusMalema on #CyrilRamaphosa's #WhiteHouse meeting

ICYMI: 'He failed to protect the Constitution' - Malema on Ramaphosa's White House meeting While addressing supporters in the Free State on Sunday ahead of Wednesday's by-elections in Kwakwatsi, EFF leader Julius Malema said President Cyril Ramaphosa failed to protect the country’s image…

WATCH: 'He failed to protect the Constitution' - #JuliusMalema on #CyrilRamaphosa's #WhiteHouse meeting

WATCH: Malema not 'intimidated' by Trump's call for his arrest | The Citizen Malema said he would never stop singing a song that Winnie Mandela sang and it would be a betrayal to the struggle of 'our people'.

WATCH: Malema not ‘intimidated’ by Trump’s call for his arrest #JuliusMalema #EFF #DonaldTrump #CyrilRamaphosa #JacobZuma #MKParty #AfricaDay

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Nelson Mandela’s legacy vs. today’s South Africa , why Trump’s warning can’t be ignored. Tough truths about race, leadership & the future of the nation. Read more: [eliesmith.blogspot.com] #SouthAfrica #NelsonMandela #DonaldTrump #ANC #JuliusMalema

South Africa’s Julius Malema on global affairs: ‘You all know it’s fiction.

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Julius Malema: South Africa's Radical Left-Wing Dilemma And MAGA’s Polar Opposite—this is what Happens When the Populist Pendulum Swings the Other Way

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Exploring South Africa’s polarized realities—from Trump’s exile fantasy to Julius Malema’s fiery populism

South African opposition politician hits out after failing to get UK visa South African firebrand opposition politician Julius Malema says he has been denied a visa to attend a conference in the UK on 10 May. Malema said the UK had no “substantial justification” for its decision, and he saw it as an “attempt to silence a dissenting political perspective”. In a leaked letter to Malema’s deputy, the UK High Commissioner to South Africa, Antony Phillipson, said the Home Office had been unable to process his visa application in time for his trip. Malema, the leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party, is a fierce critic of what he sees as “Western imperialism”, and also advocates the nationalisation of white-owned land in South Africa. A Home Office spokesperson told the BBC that they do not comment on individual cases. In a post on X, the EFF said the High Commission had “actively delayed the processing and approval” of their leader’s visa so that he could not speak at the University of Cambridge on 10 May. He had been invited by the university’s African Society to address its Africa Together Conference, the EFF added. In his letter, which the BBC has been told is genuine, Mr Phillipson said that he wanted to “personally apologise” that the Home Office in the UK had been “unable to process the application in time owing to the necessary steps required to consider visa applications and the unfortunate timing of some recent UK Bank Holidays”. He added that he had taken a “personal interest in the issue” over the last week. “I recognise that this will be deeply disappointing, especially as the delegation applied in advance and some paid for priority service,” Mr Phillipson said, in the letter to the EFF’s Godrich Gardee. Mr Phillipson added that the Home Office had agreed to refund the application fee. Malema said on X that the EFF delegation had been promised that “everything would be sorted”, but received a “regret letter just hours before our departure”. “This is unacceptable and spineless,” he added. The UK had a bank, or public, holiday on 5 May. – BBC The post South African opposition politician hits out after failing to get UK visa appeared first on The Namibian.

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SA British High Commission apologises to Malema for visa application not being finalised A letter by High Commissioner Antony Phillipson apologising to Malema has been made public by the red berets, where he expresses regret over the inaction of his colleagues in the UK Home Office.

A letter by High Commissioner #AntonyPhillipson apologising to #JuliusMalema has been made public by the #EFF.

SA British High Commission apologises to Malema for visa application not being finalised A letter by High Commissioner Antony Phillipson apologising to Malema has been made public by the red berets, where he expresses regret over the inaction of his colleagues in the UK Home Office.

A letter by High Commissioner #AntonyPhillipson apologising to #JuliusMalema has been made public by the #EFF.

Malema denied UK visa | The Citizen The conference is expected to take place this weekend.

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EFF demands justice for alleged rape of little Cwecwe in Matatiele | The Citizen Julius Malema visited Cwecwe’s parents during the weekend to express “unwavering solidarity and support” to the family.

👉EFF demands justice ⚖️for alleged rape of little Cwecwe 😠in Matatiele #Cwecwe #Rape #ChildProtectionWeek #JuliusMalema #EFF Read the story here: 👇

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WATCH: Suspension of VAT increase 'necessary intervention,' Malema says | The Citizen Malema also called for the resignation of Enoch Godongwana and National Treasury Director-General Duncan Pieterse.

WATCH: Suspension of VAT increase ‘necessary intervention,’ Malema says #EFF #JuliusMalema #VAT #Parliament #EnochGodongwana

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‘Kill the Boer’ — A song sung by so few that divides so many Last week’s ruling by the Constitutional Court refusing to hear AfriForum’s appeal against an earlier judgment allowing the singing of the phrase ‘kill the boer’ – as well as Elon Musk’s obsessions – may now bring this issue to the fore again – and enable those at our extremes to continue to pull us apart. ‘The case of one song has turned into an unmitigated disaster that may just haunt South Africa for many years to come. It’s hard to think of any issue that has seen more irrationality, more fear, more anger and more thick-headedness than the songs containing the phrase ‘kill the boer’.” I first wrote those words in this publication about 15 years ago. And it is with deep pain that I must report that our extremes have since only made the situation worse. Julius Malema on one side, AfriForum on the other. They have dragged us here. Last week, the Constitutional Court said it would not hear a further appeal brought by AfriForum against the singing of the song, Dubul’ Ibhunu. In August 2022, the Equality Court ruled the song could be sung by members of the EFF, as it did not constitute hate speech (the court referred to phrases such as “kill/kiss the boer” in its ruling, but not the name of the song per se). This was the second case involving the song. The first had its roots back in 2010, when Julius Malema, as leader of the ANC Youth League at the time, started singing it at public events. Radical relevance While courts have heard testimony about the roots of the song, its history, and how ANC members would use the song as a protest against the apartheid system (in a similar way to which Americans would use the phrase “stick it to the man” when meaning the “system”), in fact, it was not often used in the democratic era. Even a veteran ANC leader such as Derek Hanekom, called on to testify in the case (presumably because of his ethnic identity), was hard-pressed to remember when he had heard it for the first time. Before Malema started singing it in 2010, the last time the phrase “kill the boer” had been used in public was by an ANC Youth League leader before him, Peter Mokaba. Mokaba died in 2002, and the song may well have lapsed into obscurity. In fact, when this reporter first heard Malema sing it, back in 2010, he was not aware of what the song was. And neither were most people around him.  At the time, Malema was looking to make a name for himself. He wanted to appear more radical than anyone else in the ANC. To be clear, this was a deliberate choice. He wanted controversy. Then, as now, he craved attention – needed it, like a drug, to fuel a political career. But for this to work, someone needed to oppose him. And it needed to be a group that would light a racial tinderbox. While it’s impossible to know what would have happened if no one had said anything, it’s tempting to wonder. Perhaps Malema would have sung it a few more times and then given up. Perhaps nothing would have happened. We will never know, because AfriForum took the bait. They went to court, and through a long trial in 2011, both sides were heard. This was just before the local elections in 2011, and it gave Malema the perfect opportunity to campaign. While the ANC still dominated our politics then, reminding voters of their racial identities still helped them. It may be hard to imagine now, but Cope had recently won one million votes from the ANC just two years before. In fact, Malema then gave what was perhaps the quote of the ANC’s campaign that year, when he told the FNB stadium that “The DA is for white people, the ANC is for you”. But, the real genius of Malema’s move at the time was that the ANC was pulled into supporting the song. Because it was a song about its history, and despite the fact Malema was facing a disciplinary process that would eventually see him expelled, the party felt it had to support him. Of course, its leader at the time was then president Jacob Zuma. And towards the end of his time in office, he too tried to claim he was the victim of a racial conspiracy, just seven years later. That said, there were figures in the ANC who tried to mitigate the damage. At one press conference, then ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe and party spokesperson Jackson Mthembu stood up to sing the entire national anthem. The whole point was to remind journalists, and their audiences, that they too sang Die Stem from time to time. It is one of the enduring tragedies of our politics that while so much has changed since those years, the controversy around this song has remained. Insecurity and belonging Malema is no longer in the ANC. Both he and Zuma now lead different political parties. Yet even now, these words have such power. One reason that the controversy has endured is because AfriForum went to court again in 2020, this time to stop Malema singing it as EFF leader. As was said at the time, Afriforum and the EFF were trying to tear us apart. Again. This says much about the difficult nature of our history, about the influence it has on our present, and about how people feel about their place in South Africa now. There appear to be no recent examples in which any ANC leaders have sung the song, and it was not a party in this most recent court case. But the damage has now been done. While this has been playing out, other rulings have been made. The Human Rights Commission has allowed Malema to say he was “slitting the throat of whiteness”, in reference to then Nelson Mandela Bay mayor Athol Trollip. That same commission also allowed him to say, “We are not calling for the slaughtering of white people, at least for now”. Along with other factors, this has led a group of white South Africans to feel completely insecure about their place in our society. Read more: Julius Malema’s ‘Kill the Boer’ chant is a reflection of South Africa’s unresolved historical pain While the lawyers and judges make important arguments based on constitutionality, our history, and the law, some people hear only one thing. That they are not allowed to display a flag, but someone else can say it’s not time for them to be slaughtered. Yet. It is impossible to imagine that these comments would be allowed if they related to any other word than “whites” or “whiteness”. While all of this has happened, more communities are getting their news through social media groups and WhatsApp. This means they are hearing fewer views from people they disagree with. The net result of this may well be that they feel “othered”, that they are being treated as less than South African. Harnessing fear While it is true that AfriForum was responding to Malema, they have played an active role in this. They have fanned the flames, pushed the arguments to their boundaries. It cannot be forgotten that they opposed the banning of the “gratuitous display” of the apartheid flag, arguing that people should have a right to display it where they want. At the same time, they have used fear to grow their constituency. A fear that is now being harnessed by Donald Trump and others for their own purposes. Malema has played an important role in this too. He sang it, he insisted on singing it. He may have the legal right to sing it, but that does not make him morally right. And, like Trump, he has done it for his own selfish ends. Others have a responsibility, too. The ANC, once the broad centre of our politics, could play a louder role, even now, in condemning those who sing the song. While its secretary-general Fikile Mbalula was correct to say last week there was no longer any justification to sing the words “kill the boer”, he also said the party would not water it down. Perhaps other ANC leaders could find the words to make it clear it is morally wrong to sing it. But so should other voices at what is now the vanishing centre of our politics. Instead, this issue is now going to be harnessed by Elon Musk, the person who owns the most divisive of social media platforms, who works for a person who has divided at least one nation and is now working on dividing the world. And somehow, this song, these words, “kill the boer”, are going to play a role in that. DM The post ‘Kill the Boer’ — A song sung by so few that divides so many appeared first on The Namibian.

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‘Kill the Boer’ — A song sung by so few that divides so many Last week’s ruling by the Constitutional Court refusing to hear AfriForum’s appeal against an earlier judgment allowing the singing of the phrase ‘kill the boer’ – as well as Elon Musk’s obsessions – may now bring this issue to the fore again – and enable those at our extremes to continue to pull us apart. ‘The case of one song has turned into an unmitigated disaster that may just haunt South Africa for many years to come. It’s hard to think of any issue that has seen more irrationality, more fear, more anger and more thick-headedness than the songs containing the phrase ‘kill the boer’.” I first wrote those words in this publication about 15 years ago. And it is with deep pain that I must report that our extremes have since only made the situation worse. Julius Malema on one side, AfriForum on the other. They have dragged us here. Last week, the Constitutional Court said it would not hear a further appeal brought by AfriForum against the singing of the song, Dubul’ Ibhunu. In August 2022, the Equality Court ruled the song could be sung by members of the EFF, as it did not constitute hate speech (the court referred to phrases such as “kill/kiss the boer” in its ruling, but not the name of the song per se). This was the second case involving the song. The first had its roots back in 2010, when Julius Malema, as leader of the ANC Youth League at the time, started singing it at public events. Radical relevance While courts have heard testimony about the roots of the song, its history, and how ANC members would use the song as a protest against the apartheid system (in a similar way to which Americans would use the phrase “stick it to the man” when meaning the “system”), in fact, it was not often used in the democratic era. Even a veteran ANC leader such as Derek Hanekom, called on to testify in the case (presumably because of his ethnic identity), was hard-pressed to remember when he had heard it for the first time. Before Malema started singing it in 2010, the last time the phrase “kill the boer” had been used in public was by an ANC Youth League leader before him, Peter Mokaba. Mokaba died in 2002, and the song may well have lapsed into obscurity. In fact, when this reporter first heard Malema sing it, back in 2010, he was not aware of what the song was. And neither were most people around him.  At the time, Malema was looking to make a name for himself. He wanted to appear more radical than anyone else in the ANC. To be clear, this was a deliberate choice. He wanted controversy. Then, as now, he craved attention – needed it, like a drug, to fuel a political career. But for this to work, someone needed to oppose him. And it needed to be a group that would light a racial tinderbox. While it’s impossible to know what would have happened if no one had said anything, it’s tempting to wonder. Perhaps Malema would have sung it a few more times and then given up. Perhaps nothing would have happened. We will never know, because AfriForum took the bait. They went to court, and through a long trial in 2011, both sides were heard. This was just before the local elections in 2011, and it gave Malema the perfect opportunity to campaign. While the ANC still dominated our politics then, reminding voters of their racial identities still helped them. It may be hard to imagine now, but Cope had recently won one million votes from the ANC just two years before. In fact, Malema then gave what was perhaps the quote of the ANC’s campaign that year, when he told the FNB stadium that “The DA is for white people, the ANC is for you”. But, the real genius of Malema’s move at the time was that the ANC was pulled into supporting the song. Because it was a song about its history, and despite the fact Malema was facing a disciplinary process that would eventually see him expelled, the party felt it had to support him. Of course, its leader at the time was then president Jacob Zuma. And towards the end of his time in office, he too tried to claim he was the victim of a racial conspiracy, just seven years later. That said, there were figures in the ANC who tried to mitigate the damage. At one press conference, then ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe and party spokesperson Jackson Mthembu stood up to sing the entire national anthem. The whole point was to remind journalists, and their audiences, that they too sang Die Stem from time to time. It is one of the enduring tragedies of our politics that while so much has changed since those years, the controversy around this song has remained. Insecurity and belonging Malema is no longer in the ANC. Both he and Zuma now lead different political parties. Yet even now, these words have such power. One reason that the controversy has endured is because AfriForum went to court again in 2020, this time to stop Malema singing it as EFF leader. As was said at the time, Afriforum and the EFF were trying to tear us apart. Again. This says much about the difficult nature of our history, about the influence it has on our present, and about how people feel about their place in South Africa now. There appear to be no recent examples in which any ANC leaders have sung the song, and it was not a party in this most recent court case. But the damage has now been done. While this has been playing out, other rulings have been made. The Human Rights Commission has allowed Malema to say he was “slitting the throat of whiteness”, in reference to then Nelson Mandela Bay mayor Athol Trollip. That same commission also allowed him to say, “We are not calling for the slaughtering of white people, at least for now”. Along with other factors, this has led a group of white South Africans to feel completely insecure about their place in our society. Read more: Julius Malema’s ‘Kill the Boer’ chant is a reflection of South Africa’s unresolved historical pain While the lawyers and judges make important arguments based on constitutionality, our history, and the law, some people hear only one thing. That they are not allowed to display a flag, but someone else can say it’s not time for them to be slaughtered. Yet. It is impossible to imagine that these comments would be allowed if they related to any other word than “whites” or “whiteness”. While all of this has happened, more communities are getting their news through social media groups and WhatsApp. This means they are hearing fewer views from people they disagree with. The net result of this may well be that they feel “othered”, that they are being treated as less than South African. Harnessing fear While it is true that AfriForum was responding to Malema, they have played an active role in this. They have fanned the flames, pushed the arguments to their boundaries. It cannot be forgotten that they opposed the banning of the “gratuitous display” of the apartheid flag, arguing that people should have a right to display it where they want. At the same time, they have used fear to grow their constituency. A fear that is now being harnessed by Donald Trump and others for their own purposes. Malema has played an important role in this too. He sang it, he insisted on singing it. He may have the legal right to sing it, but that does not make him morally right. And, like Trump, he has done it for his own selfish ends. Others have a responsibility, too. The ANC, once the broad centre of our politics, could play a louder role, even now, in condemning those who sing the song. While its secretary-general Fikile Mbalula was correct to say last week there was no longer any justification to sing the words “kill the boer”, he also said the party would not water it down. Perhaps other ANC leaders could find the words to make it clear it is morally wrong to sing it. But so should other voices at what is now the vanishing centre of our politics. Instead, this issue is now going to be harnessed by Elon Musk, the person who owns the most divisive of social media platforms, who works for a person who has divided at least one nation and is now working on dividing the world. And somehow, this song, these words, “kill the boer”, are going to play a role in that. DM The post ‘Kill the Boer’ — A song sung by so few that divides so many appeared first on The Namibian.

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Ndlozi 'consulted' with former ANC presidents before quitting EFF | The Citizen Ndlozi quit Julius Malema’s red berets early this week following months of disputes with the party's leadership.

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Musk clashes with Malema, calls for EFF leader to be declared an 'international criminal' Musk's remarks came in response to a video in which Malema claimed that the Democratic Alliance (DA) only supported its white leaders.

#ElonMusk suggests #JuliusMalema should be declared an international criminal.

Musk clashes with Malema, calls for EFF leader to be declared an 'international criminal' Musk's remarks came in response to a video in which Malema claimed that the Democratic Alliance (DA) only supported its white leaders.

#ElonMusk suggests #JuliusMalema should be declared an international criminal.