AfriForum's legal team is ready, and looking forward, to defend the Equality Court's ruling that the "Shoot the Boer" song amounts to hate speech in the Supreme Court of Appeal and even the Constitutional Court. This after Malema and the ANC was granted leave to appeal in the South Gauteng High Court today. According to AfriForum, the organisation has already won two court cases with costs against Malema, and is confident that they can do the same for a third and even fourth time.

In the unlikely event that the Constitutional Court wil find that people have the right to call Afrikaners dogs that must be shot - as the lyrics in the song describe - AfriForum will take the case to the United Nations (UN) and other international forums.

The ANC will then have to explain to the international community why they see it fit to sing a song that says a certain minority group in South Africa may be called dogs that must be shot.

South Africa had ratified the UN's covenant on civil and political rights, which bans hate speech. This will allow AfriForum to lay a charge at the UN's Human Rights Council, should it eventually appear that South Africa's courts do not protect society against hate speech.

Statement issued by Kallie Kriel, CEO AfriForum, September 22 2011

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