ANC fury at apartheid song ban
South Africa's ruling African National Congress has expressed fury at a court decision to ban the singing of a song with the words "Shoot the Boer".
It says a campaign by white activists to get the song banned is an attempt to "elevate apartheid agents as victims".
It wants the Constitutional Court to overturn a ruling by a white judge that the words amount to hate speech.
ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema recently sang the song, leading to claims that he was inciting violence.
South African's Afrikaans-speakers are known as Boers, a word which also means farmer....
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It says a campaign by white activists to get the song banned is an attempt to "elevate apartheid agents as victims".
It wants the Constitutional Court to overturn a ruling by a white judge that the words amount to hate speech.
ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema recently sang the song, leading to claims that he was inciting violence.
South African's Afrikaans-speakers are known as Boers, a word which also means farmer....