That's the South African President Jacob Zuma leading the singing of "Kill the Boer" at ANC Centenery Celebrations in Bloemfontein, South Africa in January 2012.
Note the lyrics enthusiastically sung and also note the man in the grey waistcoat next to President Zuma, the one doing the actions to illustrate the song's words. Long time readers of this blog may recognise him as Julius Malema the vile individual who was formerly Jacob Zuma's attack dog before rising to become President of the ANC Youth League. In November 2011 Julius Malema was found guilty of sowing divisions within the ANC and, in conjunction with his two-year suspended sentence in May 2010, was suspended from the party for five years. It looks as though Jacob Zuma is not afraid to be seen with this nasty piece of work.
In April 2010 I reported on Julius Malema's words when expelling a BBC reporter, Jonah Fisher, from a press conference for daring to comment on where Julius Malema lives - "You live in Sandtown"; he raised this point because Malema had just criticised the Movement for Democratic Change for having offices in affluent Sandton. To which Julius Malema replies:
"This is a building of the revolutionary party and you know nothing of the revolution... here you behave or else you jump(?).. can you get security to remove this thing(?)... don't come here with that white tendencies(?)... you are a small boy, you cannot do anything... go out, go out, bastard... you bloody agent... "Read my previous articles on Julius Malema for more of a flavour of this person. Don't expect to see the video of this song on the BBC anytime soon though.
Don't know who did the translation of that song, but he/she is so wide of the mark...
ReplyDeleteIt's not a song about shooting anyone. It's a song about coming home. The Zulu word for white person or boer is "abalungu" which I didn't hear once in that clip.
Loo up the lyrics on the web, there are quite a few different versions but they all have in common the wish to kill the Boer.
ReplyDeleteso are you just ignoring Henry's comments correcting you then?
ReplyDeleteAnon: So you know what the lyrics are do you? Somehow I doubt it. In fact it is mosst likely that in this, as in so many areas, you are clueless.
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