South Africa’s Highest Court Denies Bid to Have ‘Kill the Boer’ Declared Hate Speech

South Africa’s highest court denied on March 27 a bid to have the song “Kill the Boer” be deemed hateful speech. “The application should be dismissed as it bears no reasonable prospects of success,” stated the order from the Constitutional Court. The case was brought by AfriForum, a South African nongovernmental organization representing white South Africans, who constitute 7 percent of the population and own 70 percent of the farmland. South Africa consists of 62 million people. “After this shocking court ruling, we see that this is no longer the case. We are seeing an increasing radical implementation of the Constitution. We see an increase in ideologically-driven judges,” said AfriForum CEO Kallie Kriel in a statement. “However, we are not going to become discouraged.”...