Thursday, 27 March 2025

The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) welcomes the ruling by the Constitutional Court of South Africa, which has dismissed with finality the baseless and reactionary attempt by the racist lobby group AfriForum to appeal against the Equality Court and Supreme Court’s rulings in our favour that “Kill the Boer” is not hate speech. The highest court in the land has confirmed what we have said all along: this case was a frivolous and cynical attempt to weaponise the legal system to distort history and silence Black resistance.

AfriForum, a white supremacist organisation of apartheid apologists, has repeatedly pushed the false narrative of white victimhood in a country where Black people continue to suffer the legacy of land dispossession, economic exclusion, and systemic oppression at the hands of white minority rule. Their efforts to criminalise a liberation song, one deeply rooted in the fight against the brutal regime that oppressed Black people for decades, are part of their broader project to rewrite history, erase their own crimes, and paint themselves as victims.

The courts have time and again ruled in our favour. In 2022, the Equality Court dismissed AfriForum’s case, stating that “Dubul’ iBhunu” (“Kill the Boer”) is not hate speech but part of the historical struggle for liberation. In 2023, the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) rejected AfriForum’s appeal and affirmed that the song was not a call to incite violence but a chant of resistance against colonial and apartheid oppression. Now, in 2025, the Constitutional Court has shut the door permanently on this absurd and opportunistic legal campaign.

At no point in South African history have Black people ever victimised white people. The very suggestion is an insult to truth and justice. The real victims in this country have always been Black people: enslaved, dispossessed, massacred, and subjected to centuries of institutionalised racism. Yet, it is white supremacists like AfriForum who seek to erase their and their forefathers’ crimes while falsely claiming persecution.

AfriForum’s consistent fearmongering about so-called “white genocide” is nothing more than racist paranoia, aimed at protecting the ill-gotten privileges of white South Africans. There has never been a campaign of racial violence against white people in this country, yet they continue to manipulate statistics and fabricate crises to justify their reactionary agenda. Even the Presidency had to be reduced today to responding to allegations from AfriForum, and their allies Solidarity, through a meeting with the South African Police Service (SAPS) to verify the statistics on farm murders that simply do not exist as an epidemic or genocide.

The EFF has always been clear: we will not be intimidated, silenced, or censored by racists who refuse to acknowledge the sins of their past. The liberation struggle belongs to us, and no court, no lobby group, and no reactionary force will ever erase our history or dictate how we remember our struggle. The Constitutional Court ruling is a victory for truth, for historical justice, and for the freedom to commemorate our fight against oppression. We salute our Commander-in-Chief Julius Malema and all fighters who have stood firm in defending the legacy of our liberation struggle.

AfriForum must accept that South Africa is not their playground of privilege anymore. We will continue to sing our songs, remember our struggle, and fight for total economic liberation. ay, 27 March 2025

The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) welcomes the ruling by the Constitutional Court of South Africa, which has dismissed with finality the baseless and reactionary attempt by the racist lobby group AfriForum to appeal against the Equality Court and Supreme Court’s rulings in our favour that “Kill the Boer” is not hate speech. The highest court in the land has confirmed what we have said all along: this case was a frivolous and cynical attempt to weaponise the legal system to distort history and silence Black resistance.

AfriForum, a white supremacist organisation of apartheid apologists, has repeatedly pushed the false narrative of white victimhood in a country where Black people continue to suffer the legacy of land dispossession, economic exclusion, and systemic oppression at the hands of white minority rule. Their efforts to criminalise a liberation song, one deeply rooted in the fight against the brutal regime that oppressed Black people for decades, are part of their broader project to rewrite history, erase their own crimes, and paint themselves as victims.

The courts have time and again ruled in our favour. In 2022, the Equality Court dismissed AfriForum’s case, stating that “Dubul’ iBhunu” (“Kill the Boer”) is not hate speech but part of the historical struggle for liberation. In 2023, the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) rejected AfriForum’s appeal and affirmed that the song was not a call to incite violence but a chant of resistance against colonial and apartheid oppression. Now, in 2025, the Constitutional Court has shut the door permanently on this absurd and opportunistic legal campaign.

At no point in South African history have Black people ever victimised white people. The very suggestion is an insult to truth and justice. The real victims in this country have always been Black people: enslaved, dispossessed, massacred, and subjected to centuries of institutionalised racism. Yet, it is white supremacists like AfriForum who seek to erase their and their forefathers’ crimes while falsely claiming persecution.

AfriForum’s consistent fearmongering about so-called “white genocide” is nothing more than racist paranoia, aimed at protecting the ill-gotten privileges of white South Africans. There has never been a campaign of racial violence against white people in this country, yet they continue to manipulate statistics and fabricate crises to justify their reactionary agenda. Even the Presidency had to be reduced today to responding to allegations from AfriForum, and their allies Solidarity, through a meeting with the South African Police Service (SAPS) to verify the statistics on farm murders that simply do not exist as an epidemic or genocide.

The EFF has always been clear: we will not be intimidated, silenced, or censored by racists who refuse to acknowledge the sins of their past. The liberation struggle belongs to us, and no court, no lobby group, and no reactionary force will ever erase our history or dictate how we remember our struggle. The Constitutional Court ruling is a victory for truth, for historical justice, and for the freedom to commemorate our fight against oppression. We salute our Commander-in-Chief Julius Malema and all fighters who have stood firm in defending the legacy of our liberation struggle.

AfriForum must accept that South Africa is not their playground of privilege anymore. We will continue to sing our songs, remember our struggle, and fight for total economic liberation.

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Leigh-Ann Mathys (National Spokesperson) 082 304 7572

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