Julius Malema, the left-wing radical leader of the third-largest South African political party, led a massive stadium crowd on Saturday in a vicious “liberation” chant of “Kill the Boer! Kill the farmer!” — in other words, an explicitly racist call for massive violence against the white population of South Africa.
The spectacle was all the more disturbing because the EFF is growing in political strength and could well play the kingmaker during next year’s elections.
Malema’s party, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), was celebrating the tenth anniversary of its founding — and flexing its populist muscles as it prepares to displace the African National Congress (ANC) as the official opposition party in the Western Cape where the Democratic Alliance (DA) currently holds power.
EFF leader Julius Malema calls on the liberation chants
The chant, popularised by former ANCYL president Peter Mokaba, has the lyrics
“ULeft URight Nyamazane”
“kill the boer, the…