{"id":16036,"date":"2012-10-31T20:18:31","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T18:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/10\/s-africas-anc-whites-agree-to-silence-shoot-the-boer\/"},"modified":"2012-10-31T20:18:31","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T18:18:31","slug":"s-africas-anc-whites-agree-to-silence-shoot-the-boer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-africas-anc-whites-agree-to-silence-shoot-the-boer\/","title":{"rendered":"S.Africa’s ANC, whites agree to silence "Shoot the Boer""},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Ed Cropley<\/span><\/p>\n

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JOHANNESBURG<\/span> Oct 31 (Reuters) – South Africa’s ruling
\nAfrican National Congress (ANC) pledged on Wednesday to stop its
\nsupporters singing the “Shoot the Boer” anti-apartheid anthem to
\navoid upsetting white farmers and stirring racial tension.<\/p>\n

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The agreement between the ANC and white-minority interest
\ngroup Afriforum ends a two-year legal battle over the song that
\nhad ignited a debate about freedom of speech, censorship of
\nhistory and efforts to mend the racist rifts in South African
\nsociety.<\/p>\n

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The liberation-era song calls on the oppressed black
\nmajority to gun down the boers, or white Afrikaner farmers who
\nwere among apartheid’s staunchest supporters.<\/p>\n

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A Johannesburg High Court ruled last year that it was “hate
\nspeech” after then-ANC youth leader Julius Malema – who has
\nsince been expelled from the party for ill-discipline – sang it
\nat several public meetings.<\/p>\n

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An ANC appeal against that ruling was due to start in the
\nSupreme Court on Thursday. The two sides instead agreed to sit
\ndown and reach a deal rather than ask the courts to decide on a
\ntopic as thorny as “banning” a song known to nearly every adult
\nblack South African.<\/p>\n

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“The ANC commits itself not to sing this song,”
\nSecretary-General Gwede Mantashe told a news conference, flanked
\nby Afriforum lawyers and leaders of the Transvaal Agricultural
\nUnion, a white farmers’ group.<\/p>\n

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He also made clear the agreement covered other potentially
\nhurtful songs, saying party leaders would “encourage its members
\nto have some restraint and avoid singing lyrics that will hurt
\nfeelings”.<\/p>\n

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The deal is a rare compromise between the ANC and the white
\nAfrikaans-speaking minority, which has sometimes struggled to
\nfeel at home in Nelson Mandela’s post-apartheid “Rainbow
\nNation”.
\n\u00a0 Continued…<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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