The “Kill the Boer” chant by a leading South African politician is an actual call to kill off the country’s beleaguered white farmers, said South African professional boxer Chris van Heerden, who lost his father to anti-white violence in 2018.
“If we Dutch Boers had our own song that was similar to that song, I can guarantee you, we would be shot at for it,” Mr. van Heerden said in an interview on EpochTV’s “Crossroad.”
On July 29, the president of South Africa’s radical left Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party, Julius Malema, led a 95,000-strong crowd in chanting “Kill the Boer, kill the farmer” at the party’s 10th-anniversary celebration at a stadium in Johannesburg.
The Boers, also known as Afrikaners, are white South Africans who trace their ancestry to Dutch colonists who settled the Cape of Good Hope in the 17th century.
The New York Times covered the event in an apologetic light, claiming that the chant should not be taken literally and that those who do are amplifying misinformation from the far right.
“Right-wing commenters claim that an old anti-apartheid chant is a call to anti-white violence, but historians and the left-wing politician who embraces it say it should not be taken literally,” a report by theNew York Times states, accusing “people on the right … including former President Donald J. Trump” of purportedly making the “false claim that there have been mass killings” against white farmers.
Mr. van Heerden, whose 61-year-old father was shot and killed on camera by someone who appeared to be an EFF supporter, rejects such claims.
Not only the killings are real, he told host Joshua Philipp, but that the killers are incited by the genocidal rhetoric of “kill the Boer.”
“I live in America, but I still have fear that I’m soon going to get a phone call where I’m losing another family member,” the boxer said.
“The truth is: It’s happening in South Africa. If you really follow the news about what’s happening, you’ll see that white farmers are being murdered by the thousands,” he continued, noting that some killers wrote the “Kill the Boer” slogan on the wall of the victims’ homes with the victims’ blood.
By Bill Pan and Joshua Philipp
