Afrikaans musician Steve Hofmeyr has released lyrics of his new song which include the banned k-word, the Times reported on Friday.
The song, Ons sal dit oorleef (We will survive it), is dedicated to Eugene Terre’Blanche, leader of the right-wing Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging, who was killed — allegedly by two of his employees — a year ago.
Hofmeyr said on his blog on Thursday he would sing his “struggle song” outside courts at which the “murderers of our people and children” plead mitigating circumstances.
Hofmeyr said on Facebook he would sing the k-word in the song, to be released on his new CD, only if African National Congress Youth League president Julius Malema won his hate speech case against Afriforum in the High Court in Johannesburg.
A message posted on his Twitter account on Thursday evening reads: “Hi all. There is no song with the K-word yet. Only if #KillTheBoer becomes legal.”
A translation of a verse reads: “My heart beats like a beetle, where it breaks for my people, before the khaki [British soldier in the Anglo-Boer War] cannon or the k*****’s dagger. It doesn’t matter anymore where we find ourselves, we will survive it,” reads a translated verse from the song.
“If Julius Malema is allowed to sing Shoot the Boer in public, we too will sing songs that have [the k-word].” – Sapa and Staff reporter