Trump’s senior adviser, Elon Musk, from South Africa, posted last week on X that the song “actively promotes white genocide.”
The South African Supreme Court rejected a bid on March 27 to view the song “Kill the Boer” as a hateful speech.
“The application should be rejected as it does not ow a reasonable prospect of success,” the order from the Constitutional Court said.
The incident was brought about by Afriforum, a South African non-governmental organization representing South Africans, which make up 7% of the population and own 70% of the farmland. South Africa is made up of 62 million people.
“After this shocking court decision, we see that this is no longer true. We see an increase in radical implementation of the constitution, and an increase in ideologically driven judges,” Afriforum CEO Curry Criel said in a statement. “But we’re not going to be discouraged.”
“Kill the Boer” is a song from the apartheid era. Bohr is a predominantly a white settler in the descent of the Dutch and has pursued the farming industry that lives in what is now South Africa. The term “Boer” is used to refer to white farmers in the country, and the lyrics to the song “Kill the Boer” are primarily composed of the word “photograph.”
Perceptions of chanting are often correlated with rising violence targeting white farmers; Ernstroetz is a South African political activist and executive director of the newly formed advocacy group Pioneer Initiative.
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“There is a tendency for slogans to be chanted by particularly well-known politicians, especially in high-profile events, to increase, especially in farm murders,” Loetz told the Epoch Times on March 28th.
“The song “Kill the Boer, Kill the Borough” goes beyond just a word. It incites violence, blows hatred, and deepens the division of our society,” he said.
“We should work towards unity and healing, and songs like this only help deepen the rifts that still exist in our country,” he continued. “Peasanders play an important role in feeding the country, and seeing their work and lives as targets of such harmful rhetoric is a humiliation for the value of respect and dignity we should support.”
The Trump administration has stopped funding for South Africa for what the government said by a country seizing land from white farmers.
The administration also said “South Africa has gained an offensive position towards the United States and its allies,” and the country denounced Israel on behalf of Hamas, the genocide of the International Court of Justice, terrorist group “to develop commercial, military and nuclear arrangements to build ties with Iran.”
The United States will “help resettle the African refugees who flee government-sponsored racially-based discrimination, including the confiscation of racist property,” the White House said.
Roets argues that through his pioneer initiative, South Africa should be divided into several small sovereign states.
“The only way forward is for these countries, such as Africans, to be self-governed so that we are not exposed to this kind of situation we are currently in,” Loetz told the Epoch Times.
Ryan Morgan, Jan Zekierek and the Associated Press contributed to this report.
