Black supremacy dealt legal blow in South Africa

Black supremacist rhetoric calling to slaughter Whites is hate speech, the Johannesburg High Court ruled this month.

The ruling was in response to a lawsuit by Afrikaner-rights organization AfriForum accusing Black supremacist Julius Malema of hate speech. Malema, the founder of a militant organization called Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), has been urging Blacks to seize land from Whites, who comprise approximately 7.7% of the population.

“Victory will only be victory if the land is restored in the hands of rightful owners. And rightful owners unashamedly is black people. No white person is a rightful owner of the land here in South Africa and in the whole of the African continent. This is our continent, it belongs to us,” said Melema in a 2016 speech, then suggesting that Whites should be slaughtered at some point:

We, the rightful owners, our peace was disturbed by white man’s arrival here. They committed a black genocide. They killed our people during land dispossession. Today, we are told don’t disturb them, even when they disturbed our peace. They found peaceful Africans here. They killed them! They slaughtered them, like animals! We are not calling for the slaughtering of white people, at least for now.

Malema has also led EFF members in publicly chanting “Kill the Farmer, Kill the Boer”. The Dutch term Boer refers to White Afrikaner farmers, who are a persecuted minority in South Africa. 

AfriForum sued Malema and the EFF for hate speech, but the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) in 2018 ruled that Malema’s remarks did not constitute hate speech. In August last year, Equality Court Judge Edwin Molahlehi issued a similar ruling.

But an appeal by AfriForum won a victory last Friday when Judge Roland Sutherland of the Johannesburg High Court found that Malema’s rhetoric is indeed classified as hate speech.

The decision is being seen as a Pyrrhic victory, however, as Black supremacy still runs rampant within the country’s ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC).

Earlier this month, South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa called for a “return to militancy” and a “revolution”, according to the Gateway Pundit, as violence against White Afrikaner farmers increases monthly.

In June, there were twelve farm attacks and ten farm murders, an increase from ten farm attacks and four murders in May, following five farm attacks and one murder in April. 

According to a report by AfriForum, there were 333 reported attacks on Afrikaner farms last year and 50 murders. Only 33% of murder suspects are arrested and convicted.

“Unfortunately, it is not clear whether the number of attacks actually decreased seeing as more and more cases are never reported to the police. I don’t think the public’s trust in the police has ever been as low as it is now,” said AfriForum Community Safety spokesman Jacques Broodryk.

In addition to murders, hundreds of thousands of destitute Boer Afrikaners who live in large squatter camps also face death from cholera and other diseases wrought by poor sanitation and water supply. Aid workers have blamed the disease-related deaths on intentional neglect by local ANC councils.

"Every year, these brave descendants of the proud Boer people have to fight court battles against evictions by town and city councils everywhere,” said aid worker Gideon van Deventer, according to Israel National News. 

"Sometimes these councils employ sly tactics, like charging the destitute for allegedly contravening all sorts of obscure council regulations, which is clearly a form of harassment and intimidation, as they own nothing, are clearly indigent, and can by no means be perceived as a threat to the mighty ANC in any form whatsoever.

"The ANC council and government policies of 'blacks first' will eventually be their ruin, especially if this case turns into an epidemic or a human rights disaster," van Deventer said.

This grim picture of Afrikaner life — particularly the farm murders — is said to be carefully constructed by the ANC, which some say intends to eliminate the white race from South Africa. 

In his memoirs, political veteran Mario Oriani-Ambrosini recalls a conversation he once had with South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa in the 1990s during negotiations for a new South African constitution:

In his brutal honesty, Ramaphosa told me of the ANC’s 25- year strategy to deal with the whites: it would be like boiling a frog alive, which is done by raising the temperature very slowly. Being cold-blooded, the frog does not notice the slow temperature increase, but if the temperature is raised suddenly, the frog will jump out of the water. He meant that the black majority would pass laws transferring wealth, land, and economic power from white to black slowly and incrementally, until the whites lost all they had gained in South Africa, but without taking too much from them at any given time to cause them to rebel or fight.

But mainstream news outlets and journalists dismiss the possibility of a white genocide as a “far-right conspiracy theory” and deny that rampant hate attacks on Afrikaner farms are a significant problem. This was exacerbated by President Donald Trump’s directive in 2018 in which he ordered Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to investigate the farm murders perpetrated against White Boer Afrikaners following a report by Fox News on the issue.

That elicited a media maelstrom of accusations that any suggestion that the killings of White Afrikaners are racially motivated is racist. According to the Anti-Defamation League, South Africa “is a country with generally high rates of violent crime” and other South Africans are killed as well, which proves that “the white supremacist claims of mass murder and ongoing ‘white genocide’” is false.

Vanity Fair called the suggestion of a White genocide “a white-nationalist talking point”. Reuters said it was “stirring racial fears”. The Guardian called it “a staple of the racist far-right”.

In a Harper’s Magazine article titled “The Myth of White Genocide,” James Pogue acknowledges that “[i]t's a simple fact that there is an element of racial vitriol to some murders of white farmers.” However, since some non-farming jobs — such as night-shift workers and Uber drivers — see even more murders, Pogue suggests the killings of white Afrikaners are not “a major concern”.

And while the media are dismissing targeted killings of white Afrikaners, the ANC is portraying them as the persecutors.

Last month, Deputy Justice Minister John Jeffrey accused white Afrikaners as the main propagators of “racist incidents” prompting outrage from human rights organizations like the Democratic Alliance (DA).

“The ANC has made its belief clear – that (generally speaking) only persons of a particular skin colour may be guilty of hate speech and hate crimes,” said the DA in a statement.