- Terre'blanche killing exposes South Africa's old racist divide
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Full Comment’s Araminta Wordsworth brings you a regular dose of international punditry at its finest. Today: After weeks of encouraging supporters to chant that jolly little ditty, Ayesaba Amagwala (The Cowards Are Scared), Julius Malema, the African National Congress’s youth league leader, is surprised his words might have been translated into violence. After all, singing it helps reconnect the ANC with the fight against apartheid, the era when Jacob Zuma, now South Africa’s president, premiered Bring Me My Machine Gun. But Ayesaba Amagwala is much more inflammatory. “Dubul ‘ibhunu, dubul ‘ibhunu," it goes on. Kill the Boer, the white Afrikaans farmer. Last week, a court in Johannesburg ruled singing it was a hate crime. Malema, on a trip to Zimbabwe to visit that freedom fighter, Robert Mugabe, sang it again anyway. Then came the news Eugene Terre’blanche, the white Afrikaner neo-nazi leader, had been murdered by two black farm workers. They claimed he hadn’t paid them, so on Saturday night they reportedly broke into his farmhouse armed with a panga — a machete — and beat and hacked him to death.
Wednesday, April 07, 2010
Racism Is Colour Blind...
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