Elon Musk has his say over Malema's 'Kill the Boer' furore

Malema has become a subject of social media debate for over two days after the party's 10th-anniversary rally at FNB Stadium on Saturday, where he chanted ‘Kill the Boer, Kill the Farmer’ after concluding his speech.

The video captured at the event has since gone viral on social media.

A conservative American political commentator and YouTuber, Benny Johnson, posted the video with  the caption ‘shocking video shows South Africa’s black party singing “kill the Boer (Whites), kill the White farmer”’

“This is all downstream from the rotten secular religion of wokeness and CRT plaguing America today .You have been warned.”

Musk commented on the video asking President Cyril Ramaphosa: "They are openly pushing for the genocide of white people in South Africa. why do you say nothing?"

Musk's comment didn't go unnoticed, with Malema responding with an expletive.

Also on Monday, DA leader John Steenhuisen announced that the party would file charges against Malema and the ANC at the United Nations Human Rights Council.

He said the ANC has to be held accountable for" failure to take action against their one-time protégé even as brutal farm murders continue to escalate in the wake of Malema’s demagoguery".

The DA will be the second party to take Malema to court over the chant.

 Lobby group AfriForum has already lost its case at the Equality Court, which found that  AfriForum failed to prove the song constitutes hate speech.

The group lodged its complaint in October 2020 after supporters of the EFF sang “Kill the Boer, Kill the Farmer” outside the Senekal Magistrates Court in the Free State,  where the accused murderers of farm manager Brendin Horner appeared.

The Equality Court granted AfriForum an opportunity to approach the Supreme Court of Appeal to challenge its judgment.

The matter is set to be argued in September.

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