Who Is the South African Radical in the Oval Office Video Singing ‘Kill the Farmer’?

Julius Malema has been found guilty of hate speech on several occasions for inciting violence against white people, with each conviction overturned on appeal.

A video is played as South African President Cyril Ramaphosa meets with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on May 21, 2025. Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images

JOHANNESBURG—Julius Malema doesn’t need to put much effort into stirring controversy.

He leads a party, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), whose policies include seizing all forms of “white-owned wealth,” including mines, land, and banks, for “redistribution to poor black people.”