EFF statement on AfriForum’s application to recuse Judge Keightley in “Kill the Boer” case
20 September 2023
The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) is disgusted by AfriForum's consistent and opportunistic legal attacks against the EFF that are a complete waste of the time of the judiciary, and are nothing but an elaborate fundraising exercise for racist right-wingers.
The latest stunt in an attempt to avoid inevitable defeat, is a frivolous application to recuse Judge Keightley from the "kill the boer" matter which is currently at the Supreme Court of Appeals.
Last year, AfriForum initiated a series of hate speech applications against the EFF, its Commander-in-Chief, Dr. Mbuyiseni Ndlozi, and the EFF itself, concerning the chanting of struggle chants, specifically "dubul'ibhunu" ("kill the boer") and "bizan'ifire brigade." The racists lost the matter dismally, as they failed to illustrate a causal link between the singing of the song and murders on farms.
In defence of our stance, the Commander-in-Chief Julius Malema elucidated the EFF's position and placed these chants within their proper political context. However, AfriForum persisted in its mischaracterisation of these liberation struggle chants, divorcing them from their historical and contextual significance, and embarrassingly presenting their racist opinions as facts in a court of law, a stunt that was rejected by the Equality Court.