White farmers in South Africa have been brutally attacked after a leading politician led a packed stadium in chants of “kill the Boer, the farmer,” and the corporate media’s globally broadcast defense of the incident. Theo Bekker, 79, was brutally murdered in a farm attack on Sunday, with the South African Agricultural Union (TAU) reporting 35 such murders committed this year.
“[A]fter the chanting… there [have] been two farm attacks and one farm murder,” said Ernst Roets, a civil rights activist whose AfriForum organization represents Dutch-origin Afrikaners, often described as Boers, who make up the bulk of South Africa’s roughly 4.6 million-strong white minority.
“An elderly man was severely beaten, from what we know he was beaten with a pipe, and eventually he was murdered when his throat was slit. His wife is in a severe condition, a critical condition, in hospital… just a few days after this chant was made,” he added, in a video posted to X, formerly Twitter.
Earlier this week, the platform’s South Africa-born platform owner Elon Musk elevated the Afrikaners’ plight by slamming the ‘Kill the Boer’ chants, led by Julius Malema at a rally of his Marxist-Leninist Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party, as a call to “genocide”.
South African politicians and Western media often deny there is any racial element to farm attacks in South Africa, with The New York Times even publishing an article suggesting that calls to “kill the Boer, the farmer” should not be “taken literally”. Musk expressed disbelief that the NYT had “the nerve to support calls for genocide,” recommending people “cancel” the newspaper and circumvent its paywall.
