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ANC Youth League president Julius Malema.
ANC Youth League president Julius Malema is sticking to his guns on the public singing of the “Shoot the Boer” song, maintaining it had been a “liberation song”.
Malema’s defence of the song is contained in answering affidavits submitted to the High Court in Johannesburg.
Civil rights group AfriForum hauled the ANCYL president to court in April 2010, asking that he be barred from singing the song as it had incited farm attacks.
Malema filed his answering affidavit a few minutes before Monday’s 5pm deadline. In an earlier hearing, Johannesburg High Court Judge Colin Lamont gave the youth leader until Monday to file his papers.
Malema dropped his earlier legal representative and was represented on Monday by the firm Edward Nathan Sonnenbergs. Vincent Maleka SC will argue on his behalf when his case resumes for trial on April 11.
In his plea explanation, Malema admitted quite happily to singing the “liberation song” at various league functions.
“The liberation songs represent the history of the anti-apartheid struggle, in particular, the liberation of all South Africans from political, economic and social oppression caused by the colonial and the apartheid system,” he said.
The song’s lyrics were reflecting the tension and conflict of the anti-colonial and anti-apartheid struggle.
He denied AfriForum allegations that the the song had fuelled the killing and maiming of Afrikaners and farmers. - Cape Times
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