Malema slams Ramaphosa for failing to defend struggle song in US

Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema continues to sing the “Kill the Boer” chant. Earlier this week, during his meeting with President Cyril Ramaphosa at the Oval House, President Donald Trump urged Ramaphosa to arrest Malema for singing “Kill the Boer, Kill the Farmer.”

However, while campaigning for his party in Koppies, Free State, the EFF leader blasted Ramaphosa for failing to defend the Constitutional Court’s ruling that the song is not hate speech. Malema said that Ramaphosa could not defend the song as African National Congress (ANC) heritage because he never believed in the struggle.

“He could not defend the song as a struggle song, and he could not explain that the song doesn’t in any means refer to the literal killing of white people and that it was directed at the supremacist system of oppression in SA. He could not do that because he, himself, never believed in the struggle, and that was justified when he could not defend the struggle in the White House. So, we know for a fact that he threw the Constitutional Court under the bus while he should have pronounced that the highest court has ruled on the matter. I cannot arrest him even if I wanted to; I have no powers. There is a rule of law in the country that needs to be followed.”

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The EFF President and Commander in Chief @Julius_S_Malema ending his address with a revolutionary song at Ward 16, Koppies in Free State.

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