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Julius Malema angers Donald Trump and Marco Rubio after chanting ‘Kill the Boer’ – US opens door to ‘threatened’ Afrikaners Written By RONELLE SNYDERS.
Tensions between South Africa and the United States continue to rise after US Secretary of State Marco Rubio slammed Julius Malema’s EFF for chanting “Kill the Boer, Kill the Farmer” at the Sharpeville massacre anniversary on Friday.
On Monday, Rubio said on social media that Africans threatened with violence would be welcomed into the US
This is because the US has revoked the legal status of more than 530,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans facing actual persecution in their home countries and intends to close its borders to more than a dozen mostly African and Arab countries.
Rubio’s outcry comes after EFF leader Julius Malema sang the controversial “Kill the Boer” song on Human Rights Day to commemorate the Sharpeville massacre on Friday amid growing hostility between the US and South Africa, particularly over the country’s land expropriation policy and attitude towards Israel.
Rubio mentioned the controversial Struggle song, “Kill the Boer,” in a post on X on Monday. Critics claim that this song was exploited as a call to action for anti-White violence, specifically targeting White farmers.
“South Africa’s leaders and politicians must take action to protect Afrikaner and other disadvantaged minorities.
“The United States is proud to provide those individuals who qualify for admission to our country in the face of this ongoing terrible threat of violence,” he said on X.
“Kill the Boer” is a hymn that incites violence. South Africa’s leaders and politicians must take action to protect Afrikaners and other disadvantaged minorities. The United States is proud to offer those individuals who qualify for admission to our country in the midst of this ongoing…
“The tragic irony is that the latest incident took place on 21 March, which is officially known as “Human Rights Day” in South Africa. What makes it even worse is that this renewed call for violence against Afrikaners was not condemned by @PresidencyZA Ramaphosa, ANC leaders, or the South African @GovernmentZA.
Thank you, President @realDonaldTrump for taking note of the irresponsible calls for violence against Afrikaners/whites—through hate chants such as “Kill the Boer, kill the farmer”—in South Africa. — Kallie Kriel (@kalliekriel) March 23, 2025
Trump has suspended financial aid to South Africa and extended refugee status to Afrikaners, citing concerns about land expropriation and discrimination, tensions have risen.
This step followed President Cyril Ramaphosa’s signing of the Expropriation Act. Trump has openly criticized South Africa’s expropriation law, arguing that it unfairly targets the white minority.
He further argued that the policy was strategically constructed to undermine business, education and equal opportunity while promoting divisive rhetoric and escalating violence against historically marginalized landowners.
The law allows the government to take land and other property for public purposes.
However, the government has defended itself against the “false narrative” that has emerged since the law was signed.
Ramaphosa has insisted on the rejection of politics of division that is emerging in many parts of the world.
“In particular, we need to challenge the completely false narrative that our country is a place in which people of a certain race or culture are targeted for persecution,” he said.
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