South African President: Don’t ‘Instruct’ Us To Arrest Those Chanting Death Threats To Whites
By Hank Berrien
“When it comes to the issues of arresting anyone … it’s a sovereign issue.”
Asked why his country would not arrest blacks who chant “Kill the Boer! Kill the farmer!” South African President Cyril Ramaphosa answered that his country did not need to “be instructed by anyone” to take that step, asserting that the country’s constitution protected freedom of expression.
Last week, President Donald Trump confronted Ramaphosa at the White House about the threat to whites in his country. When Ramaphosa claimed blacks in South Africa were also killed by criminals in the country, Trump responded, “The farmers are not black. And the people that are being killed in large numbers, and you saw all those grave sites, and those are people that loved ones are going … on a Sunday morning, they told me to pay their respects to their loved ones that were killed … their heads chopped off. They died violently.”
In late March, Julius Malema, the founder and leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters, a communist political party, led a rally at which the crowd chanted “Kill the Boer! Kill the farmer!” Malema has also led chants to “cut the throat of whiteness.”
“In 2023, a little under 300 white-owned farms were attacked across South Africa, with 49 people killed in those attacks, according to figures from AfriForum,” NBC News noted.