Struggle songs are not meant as literal engagement and are not intended to incite violence, EFF leader Julius Malema told the Equality Court on Thursday.
He added that from the times of Shaka Zulu, “I have never heard that black people were given instruction to attack through song.”
“We don’t give a command through singing. When it is time to give a command, we will give that command. I am still to wait for an example where the masses of our people were given an instruction through song to go and attack. And to say people are being killed because of an EFF song, as if this is in the founding manifesto of the EFF, is bizarre.”
Malema said to say apartheid ended 28 years ago “is a sign of being insensitive and racist because [economic] apartheid did not end in 1994”. “Singing will never be confused for command. They were not haters, they were liberators, and their songs still have a place today.” On Wednesday he denied singing the song. “You have the wrong man. Even in the videos they have presented, not a single video shows me singing ‘Kill the Boer’.”“I was taught the song when I was young. I joined the struggle when I was nine years old. We understood through political education what the song meant. They made us understand it was important not to take the song in its literal meaning.”
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