https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/4599afc5-b29e-4ae0-925c-76853c0368d4 On 14 April 2026, the South African Magistrates Court in Johannesburg sentenced Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema to five years in prison for firing an assault rifle into the air at a political rally in 2018. The conviction, which Malema's supporters and Global South analysts argue was politically motivated, came after AfriForum—a White far-right lobby group with Western ties—pushed for prosecution. However, there is suspicion that the real motivation for the charge goes back to South African President Cyril Ramaphosa’s visit to the US in 2025. On 21 May 2025, US President Donald Trump hosted Ramaphosa at the White House, hoping to mend strained relations. However, the meeting devolved into a presentation filled with false claims from Trump, including a video he misrepresented as evidence of mass k*llings of White South Africans and misleading statements about land grabs. Much of Trump's criticism, however, was aimed at Malema. The White House staff played a 2023 video of Malema singing the apartheid-era song “K*ll the Boer”, falsely claiming it was a call to harm White people. In fact, the song emerged during the struggle against apartheid. 'Boer' means farmer in Afrikaans, the language spoken by South Africans of Dutch descent. However, in the South African context, it loosely refers to all White people who are of Dutch origin, the group that designed, crafted and dominated the apartheid system. So when freedom fighters sang about 'klling the Boer,' they were not talking about klling individual Boers but about bringing down the racist, oppressive system of apartheid. And now, when Malema and his EFF supporters sing about shooting the Boer, they are talking about ridding the country of the remnants of that system, which perpetuates the economic misery that many Black South Africans still endure. The song calls for an end to the race-based economic inequality that’s seen the White minority continue to hold the lion's share of the national cake. These are facts that Trump already knows but chooses to ignore. But when were facts ever important to Trump? Mon, 20 Apr 2026 08:39:44 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://tankie.tube https://tankie.tube/lazy-static/avatars/3ba3ff73-a8b6-49c9-add8-9653ef090c7f.webp https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/4599afc5-b29e-4ae0-925c-76853c0368d4 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://tankie.tube/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.