The civil rights organisation AfriForum officially instructed its legal team to investigate the various international platforms through which it can continue its legal action against slogans such as the “Kill the Boer” chant that encourages the murder of Afrikaners and farmers. This move follows in reaction to yesterday’s Constitutional Court ruling, according to which AfriForum’s application for leave to appeal against two previous court rulings that legalised the singing of this chant was dismissed. Having exhausted all local legal remedies, AfriForum will now continue its fight internationally.

Soundbite: Kallie Kriel, CEO of AfriForum

According to Kallie Kriel, CEO of AfriForum, the internationalisation of the fight against calls for violence against Afrikaners and farmers, as demonstrated by the chanting of “Kill the Boer”, is a next logical step, given the clear lack of protection of Afrikaner human rights by the Constitutional Court and the South African Constitution. The chant has already attracted international attention this past week after the US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, expressed his dissatisfaction with it. He said on X on Monday that “‘Kill the Boer’ is a chant that incites violence” and that “South Africa’s leaders and politicians must take action to protect Afrikaners and other disfavoured minorities”.

“This internationalisation will involve more than just taking legal action. It will also include an intensified effort to draw the attention of international authorities and opinion leaders to the fact that according to South African courts, it is acceptable to encourage the murder of Afrikaners and farmers, while President Cyril Ramaphosa and his government refuse to condemn these calls for violence,” says Kriel.

Given the courts and Ramaphosa’s refusal to protect Afrikaners’ right to safety, AfriForum will expand and strengthen its 177 neighbourhood and farm watches to help communities protect themselves from crime and violence within the framework of the law. “If the authorities do not want to protect us, we will continue to protect ourselves,” Kriel adds.

According to Kriel, no self-respecting community can tolerate calls for violence against them and their children. “We will never accept that calls for violence against our communities are legal, and therefore we will fight it at every possible level with everything we have,” Kriel concludes.

Video: Kallie Kriel, CEO of AfriForum