Cape Town – ANC Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula says the party will no longer chant the controversial slogan “Kill the Boer, Kill the Farmer,” as it is deemed irrelevant in the current political climate.
He said that the chant was historically relevant during apartheid when Boers were killing and acting as commandos.
“As the ANC, we don’t think that slogan is relevant to the course at the present moment,” he said, speaking on the Friday on the sidelines of the ANC National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting
“We wouldn’t chant that slogan neither will we actually water it down because when we chant that slogan it has a particular meaning about guerillas across the Limpopo coming back home,” he said.
He was speaking to the media on the sidelines of the ANC National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting in Boksburg on Friday.
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Mbalula emphasised that the slogan has a specific historical context and would not be used by the ANC today, nor would they dilute its meaning.
“We wouldn’t chant that slogan neither will we actually water it down because when we chant that slogan it has a particular meaning about guerillas across the Limpopo coming back home.
“The background to it then meant as a chant in the camps as we prepared to infiltrate the country, the slogan came up, ‘Kill the Boer, Kill the Farmer’ because these farmers were acting as commandos of the SANDF which belonged to apartheid,” he said.
His comments followed a Constitutional Court ruling dismissing AfriForum’s appeal to declare the chant hate speech.
The court upheld the view that the chant falls under free speech, as it is not a literal call to violence but a tool for mobilisation.
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