CYRIL DEFIES TRUMP

President Cyril Ramaphosa says he will not arrest Julius Malema for chanting “Kill the Boer”, in defiance of US President Donald Trump. 

Trump confronted Ramaphosa with clips of the EFF leader singing the controversy struggle song in their White House showdown last week.

Trump claimed the video clips were proof of “White Genocide” and land grabs of Afrikaners’ farms in South Africa, without evidence.

But Ramaphosa says that South Africa sal nie gesê wees nie. 

Speaking to the media at the Sustainable Infrastructure Development Symposium South Africa (SIDSSA) conference in Cape Town yesterday, he says:  “When it comes to the issue of arresting anyone for any slogan, that is a sovereign issue.

“It’s not a matter where we need to be instructed by anyone to go and arrest this one.”

Ramaphosa then defended the “liberation song", saying: "We take into account what the constitutional courts also decided.

“The slogan, Kill the boer, Kill the farmer, is a liberation chant and slogan.

“That’s not meant to be a message that elicits or calls upon anyone to go and be killed. And 

On Sunday, IOL News reported that just days after Trump called on Ramaphosa to arrest Malema, Juju once again led the song and vowed to continue doing so.

He said: “I’m not going to be silenced by the threat of violence. I’m not going to be silenced by the threat of death.”