South Africa Chant That Calls for ‘Killing’ White Farmers Evokes Apartheid Divisions

A political demagogue faces UN charges after he revives a chant calling for violence against white South Africans

EFF leader Julius Malema denies that the song is inciting violence against South Africa's white farming community. EFF

JOHANNESBURG—It’s winter in South Africa, 1993, and the headlines are being written around the world: The long-awaited racial conflagration is about to erupt in a country that’s experiencing the final death throes of apartheid.

A Polish white supremacist, with white-blond hair and steel-blue eyes, has put a volley of bullets into South African Communist Party leader Chris Hani, a hero of the anti-apartheid resistance movement.