SHOOT BOER hatespeech has to be challenged:

‘Afrikaners would've had no place in this country… Shoot the Boer hatespeech had to be challenged in court’

… writes historian Hermann Giliomee

10 October 2011 “The main issue in today's politics is whether the Constitution will flourish as a living document to which people of all classes and ethnic origins can appeal or whether it will become a dead letter. In the Afrikaans community the issue has recently surfaced in a polemic between Adriaan Basson, a journalist of City Press, and Kallie Kriel, who leads Afriforum, the civil-rights affiliate of the SA trade union Solidariteit.

Kill the Boer and “Shoot the Boer” chants were heard outside the courtroom from an aggressive crowd supporting the two murder-suspects in the slaughter of AWB-leader and Ventersdorp farmer Eugene Terre’Blanche . The UK Telegraph quotes comments from this crowd: “as one of the accused was brought out of the Ventersdorp courthouse, scores of black yours, some armed with bricks (picture above) erupted into whistles, cheers and ululation.

A woman described the two accused males as ‘heroes’, adding: ‘We are going to stand by them all the way’. Student Jerry Mooltsho, 20, was quoted as saying: ‘they (the suspects) have shown their anger towards the regime, Terre’Blanche deserves his death’. Terre’Blanche, old, ill and defenceless when he was attacked while sleeping in his homeestad, had by then already forsaken his crowd-pleasing Boer-nationalistic political rhetoric for religious evangelism before he was slaughtered: partially dismembered, just a few months after ANC youth league leader Julius Malema started chanting ‘Shoot the Boer’ and “Kill the Boer’ from public platforms.

Videos: Nelson Mandela and ANC military wing founder Ronnie Kasrils sing Kill the Boer; Julius Malema sings Shoot the Boer:

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