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,” the order from the Constitutional Court stated.
South Africa’s Highest Court Denies Bid to Have ‘Kill the Boer’ Declared Hate Speech
Trump’s senior adviser Elon Musk, who is from South Africa, posted on X last week that the song has been ‘actively promoting white genocide.’
White South Africans supporting U.S. President Donald Trump and South African and U.S. tech billionaire Elon Musk gather in front of the U.S. Embassy in Pretoria, South Africa, on Feb. 15, 2025. Marco Longari/AFP via Getty Images
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Jackson Richman is a Washington correspondent for The Epoch Times. In addition to Washington politics, he covers the intersection of politics and sports/sports and culture. He previously was a writer at Mediaite and Washington correspondent at Jewish News Syndicate. His writing has also appeared in The Washington Examiner. He is an alum of George Washington University.
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