Pres. Ramaphosa: ‘Kill the Boer’ and ‘Kill the Farmer’ Is Just ‘a Liberation Chant and Slogan’

RAMAPHOSA: “And when it comes to the issues of arresting anyone for any slogan, that is a sovereign issue. It’s not a matter where we need to be instructed by anyone that go and arrest this one. We are a very proud, sovereign country that has its own laws, that has its own processes, and we take into account what the constitutional court also decided when it said that, you know, that slogan ‘Kill the Boer, kill the farmer,’ is a liberation chant and slogan, and it’s not meant to be a message that elicits or calls upon anyone to go and be killed. And that is what our court decided. So, they will probably want to arrest people willy-nilly. We follow the dictates of our constitution because we are a constitutional state and we are a country where freedom of expression is the bedrock of our constitutional arrangement.”