Why Julius Malema Became a Fixture in South Africa Farm Murder Coverage

Showing 7 Julius Malema videos from Charlie Kirk's video collection.

Julius Malema, leader of South Africa's Economic Freedom Fighters party, became a recurring reference point in American conservative coverage of South Africa's farm murders through his public performances of the apartheid-era liberation song "Kill the Boer." Clips of Malema and his supporters singing the chant at party rallies were cited repeatedly, including by President Trump during an Oval Office meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, where Trump played footage of the song alongside images described as burial sites for murdered white farmers. Commentators who covered the story argued that Malema's rhetoric, combined with South Africa's high farm murder rate and the country's post-apartheid land and economic policies, amounted to a campaign of persecution against the white minority, with some invoking the word genocide directly. South African officials and Malema himself have argued the song is a decades-old protest anthem tied to the anti-apartheid struggle rather than a literal call to violence, a defense South Africa's courts have previously accepted. Regardless of how that dispute is resolved, Malema's public role, as the most visible figure singing the chant on camera, made him the face conservative commentators returned to whenever the broader argument about South Africa's trajectory needed a specific image attached to it.