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Yesterday as the Equality Court ruled against Julius Malema for hate speech over his call to kill white people, his party held a protest march in Kraaifontein in the Western Cape and proceeded to sing “Kill the Boer” – a divisive, and repugnant chant that has no place in South Africa.

The incident has raised tensions and caused significant revulsion in the Kraaifontein Community.

The DA strongly condemns the singing of the chant and urges all South African political parties that believe in a free, prosperous, democratic and non-racial South Africa to unequivocally condemn this incident, and any future signing of "Kill the Boer".

Malema and his party are hellbent on dividing South Africans, and stoking racial division - which undermines confidence in our country and economy, damages the urgent efforts by the GNU to create more jobs and will ultimately harm the very people the EFF claims to represent.

There is no place in our democratic nation, based on a constitutional order of human rights, to sow division and pit races against one another in a way that incites violence.

Julius Malema remains unrepentant in the face of a massive court loss yesterday – and it is high time that he and his party come to terms with the fact that South Africans do not reward pandering to racial division at the polls, as can be clearly seen by the 2024 election results, as well as recent polling.

The DA's fundamental values of freedom, fairness, diversity and opportunity provide the foundation on which a prosperous, safe, vibrant and more equal democratic society is built. These will rescue South Africa from the division, hate and chaos of the EFF.

Issued by Dr Karl le Roux - DA Constituency Head, Oostenberg North