Shoot The Boer
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ANC, Malema, AfriForum settle on ‘shoot the boer’ controversy
An eleventh-hour settlement has been reached between AfriForum, the ANC and Julius Malema over the heated "shoot the boer" debacle.
ANC court challenge: The Spear vs Dubul’ iBhunu
The ANC has issued a warning to the judiciary as it takes the Goodman Gallery and City Press to court over Brett Murray’s controversial artwork.
Malema loses out on hate speech appeal bid
ANC Youth League president Julius Malema has lost an application for leave to appeal to the Constitutional Court against a hate speech ruling.
Strains of Shoot the Boer ring out at Cosatu meeting
Congress of South African Trade Union’s president S’dumo Dlamini has defied the ban on the liberation struggle song <i>Dubul’ ibhunu</i>.
Hues and cries
It’s a tough life in the rainbow nation, a land where every topic has too many hues and cries, says <b>Chris Roper</b>.
Master’s voice
The Equality Court’s banning of the "Shoot the Boer" song is a reminder of South Africa’s long and prickly history.
Censored in the name of democracy
The judgment against Julius Malema coincided with the 34th anniversary of the death of one of Africa’s most celebrated intellectuals.
Shoot the Boer ruling is ‘race-based’
The court ruling banning the singing of <i>Shoot the Boer</i> constituted an "absurd and drastic" infringement on freedom of speech.
We’ll fight them at the benches, says AfriForum
AfriForum has vowed to fight any court attempts to overturn the ban on "Shoot the Boer", after the ANCYL accused the group of having "too much power".
Malema’s broadside at ‘undemocratic’ judiciary
In vowing to overturn the ‘Shoot the boer’ hate speech ruling, Malema has slammed the ‘untransformed’ judiciary, accusing courts of double standards.
ANC to appeal ‘Shoot the boer’ ban as ruling slammed
The ANC will appeal the decision to ban the singing of <em>Dubhula I’bunu</em> or "shoot the boer" in a ruling slammed by advocates of free speech.
Shoot the boer: ‘That’s how a genocide can start’
A South African court on Monday ruled that ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema was guilty of hate speech for singing an apartheid-era song.
‘Shoot the boer’: It’s hate speech, says judge
ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema’s singing of the words "shoot the boer" constituted hate speech, Judge Collin Lamont ruled on Monday.
In SA, ‘no transformation without pain’
Judgment in ANC Youth League president Julius Malema’s "shoot the boer" hate speech case began without him on Monday.
De Klerk wonders why Zuma hasn’t rebuked Malema
It was unacceptable to sing the words "shoot the boer", former president FW de Klerk was quoted as saying in a media report on Thursday.