The appeal of Julius Malema and the ANC against the ruling of Judge Colin Lamont in the Equality Court, that the controversial struggle song, “Dubula iBhunu” (Shoot the Boer) is hate speech, will be heard in the Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein on 1 November 2012.
The registrar of the court has just informed the involved parties that the case will be heard on that day. The case follows Malema’s continuous singing of the song. Although Malema has been suspended from the ANC, he is still fighting this legal battle with the ANC to get the song legally accepted as part of the ANC’s heritage.
AfriForum laid a charge of hate speech against Malema in March 2010 for singing the song, among others, at his public addresses as part of his campaign for the economic emancipation of the youth. He even sang the song – after an interdict was obtained against the singing thereof – in Zimbabwe at a meeting with the youth wing of Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe’s Zanu-PF party, literally hours before AWB-leader Eugene Terre’Blanche was murdered.
