Piers Morgan slams 'Kill The Boer': 'It's an incitement to kill!'
Piers Morgan has slammed President Cyril Ramaphosa's comments that Kill The Boer should not be taken literally.
The UK personality criticised the South African leader after he defended Economic Freedom Fighter (EFF) leader Julius Malema for singing the controversial song.
Just days after coming under fire by US President Donald Trump in the White House, President Ramaphosa has faced more scathing comments for defending the struggle song Kill The Boer and Julius Malema.
Speaking to the media from Cape Town, Ramaphosa reacted to Trump's call for Malema to be arrested for performing the controversial song.
He said: 'We are a very proud sovereign country that has its own laws and own processes.
'We take into account what the Constitutional Court has decided when it said that Kill the Boer, Kill the Farmer is a liberation chant and slogan. It's not meant to be a message to call upon anyone to be killed….we follow the dictates of our constitution.'
We are a country where freedom of expression is the bedrock of our constitution.
Piers Morgan was one of many who criticised Ramaphosa over his comments, posting on X: 'Oh come off it, Mr President . It's literally a threat, and incitement, to kill'.
Meanwhile, former South African president Thabo Mbeki has defended the singing of Kill The Boer, emphasising that it is not to be taken literally.
He told SABC News this week: 'It was a chant during the days of struggle. Chants of that kind are part of our tradition, in the African tradition, and you don't take them literally.'
He continued: 'There's no uMkhonto we Sizwe soldier who went and killed a farmer. It's a chant to motivate people. It was never taken literally. Even during the course of the struggle, it was not literal. It's an exaggeration to take this as an instruction to go and kill.
'The people who are exaggerating know that they are exaggerating because they are trying to achieve some political purpose.'
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