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South Africa Is Descending Into Chaos: An Interview with Paul Maritz

Farm Murders Monument South Africa

In recent days, a chilling video emerged of a stadium filled with black South Africans singing “Kill the Boer,” a fighting song calling for the murder of white South Africans. The clip went viral, shocking Western people whose idea of South Africa was fixed in the Nelson Mandela era, and who haven’t paid attention to the country since its first black president died in 2013.

The New York Times rushed to assure its readers that there was nothing to worry about. The song, it said, is a relic of “decades” of anti-apartheid struggle (false: it debuted in 1993, one year after South African whites voted to end apartheid, and one year before Mandela became president), and besides only “far Right” whites are troubled by it.

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