JOHANNESBURG A South African pressure group said this week that a visit to Zimbabwe by Julius Malema,AfriForum said Malema should have been barred from visiting Zimbabwe, where he uttered some statements that the pressure group viewed to be in contempt of a recent court ruling against his singing of Kill the Boer, a song that has since been linked to the escalating hate-inspired murders of white farmers in South Africa.
Malema was quoted in the Zimbabwean media as having declared that he would rather go to jail than stop singing the song, which has since been linked to the weekend killing of right-wing extremist Eugene TerreBlanche.
Malemas defiant visit to Zimbabwe and the ANCs silence regarding the visit to this failed state, which has been governed into the ground, causes grave concern amongst all in South Africa who feel strongly about the interests of our country, said Flip Buys, AfriForums chairman.
His visit and his statements form an important test for the ANCs commitment to the constitution. If the ANC condones his defiance and spurning of court orders, it amounts to the fact that they do not respect the rule of law, but undermine it or allow it to be undermined.
AFriForum warned that Malemas defiance of the courts, if left unchecked, would see South Africa being reduced into yet another African failure like Zimbabwe.
The pressure group added that South Africa has over the past 16 years experienced an alarming rate of murders of white farmers, which are much higher than those recorded in Zimbabwe during President Robert Mugabes chaotic land reform program, which began in 2000.
Although the statistics regarding the number of farm murders vary, agricultural unions state that more than 2 000 and up to 3 000 people have been murdered on their farms since 1994, said Buys.
This is much higher than the average in the country and incomparably higher that the approximately 12 murders of white farmers in Zimbabwe. The disbanding of the commando system and mismanagement of the SAPS under the Mbeki administration is one of the main reasons for this tragedy, which poses a great threat to food security in the whole (Southern African) region.
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