Zuma’s bid next year for a second term as party leader - a position that, if secured, would automatically make him the favored presidential candidate in elections in 2014. Malema is not generally seen as a direct challenger for the party leadership, the Youth League could disrupt Mr. Malema, who helped President Zuma win a power struggle within the party in 2007, is now at odds with him. The inquiry is politically charged because Mr. opened a formal inquiry to determine whether the youth leader had brought the party into disrepute and sowed division by advocating the overthrow of the government in neighboring Botswana. The pro-Malema crowd was smaller than a gathering of young people who fought with the police last month when the A.N.C. Judge Lamont determined that while songs like “Shoot the Boer” were part of the fight against white minority rule, they constituted hate speech as South Africa seeks to heal its racial past. Malema was not in court to hear the verdict, about 100 of his followers on the streets outside the court in central Johannesburg broke into the song, directly challenging the ruling. This new approach to each other must be fostered.” 🙆🏾♂️🙆🏾♂️ #EFFvsAfriforum pic.twitter.“The enemy has become the friend, the brother. WATCH EFF leader Julius Malema in court today Malema insists they are singing “kiss the boer, kiss the farmer” and also told the court that the song should not be taken literally, that context is vital. Roets says it’s a “clear case of hate speech because it deals with a group that is targeted on the basis of identity and against whom violence is incited”, and that it contributes to farm attacks. Ernst Roets, AfriForum’s Head of Policy wants the court to declare that “they must apologise publicly and that they must pay a fine to an organisation that strives to combat hate speech”.
#Newzroom405 #EFFvsAfriforum /ET0U4cEeWzĪfriForum have taken the EFF to court over the alleged singing of the “kill the boer, kill the farmer” song outside the Magistrate’s Court in Senekal, where the accused murderers of farm manager Brendin Horner were tried.ĪfriForum is asking the High Court in Johannesburg to declare the song hate speech and is asking for an order that Malema, Mbuyiseni Ndlozi and the Eff have committed hate speech. "You arrived here as settlers in 1652, it's a historical fact…We have accepted that you have naturalised in this country, but it doesn't change the fact that you came here as a visitor," EFF leader Julius Malema says.
And we’ve accepted that you’ve naturalised in this country, but it doesn’t change the fact that you came here as a visitor.” WATCH Julius Malema – “Africa is a country” “Because of our African-ness and the spirit of Ubuntu – we have embraced you and we’ve shared our land with you. It’s a historical fact! And you were using South Africa as a refreshment station. The leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters also said white people were visitors. By the time the conference participants finished (1914), Africa had been split amongst themselves into 50 countries. (Most of the coastal areas had already been colonised.) No Africans were invited. The main division of Africa into separate countries took place at the Berlin Conference in 1884/85 when Chancellor Otto von Bismarck of Germany invited representatives of other European countries to decide how best to split up the land in Africa without European countries going to war.
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