{"id":95703,"date":"2025-05-28T13:36:21","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T13:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artikels.afriforum.co.za\/?p=95703"},"modified":"2025-05-28T13:36:24","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T13:36:24","slug":"ramaphosa-violates-un-genocide-convention-by-failing-to-condemn-kill-the-boer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artikels.afriforum.co.za\/en\/ramaphosa-violates-un-genocide-convention-by-failing-to-condemn-kill-the-boer\/","title":{"rendered":"Ramaphosa violates UN Genocide Convention by failing to condemn \u201cKill the Boer\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/www.artikels.afriforum.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Kallie-Kriel_28-May-2025_ENG-1.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Soundbite: Kallie Kriel (English)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/www.artikels.afriforum.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Kallie-Kriel_28-Mei-2025_AFR-1.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Soundbite: Kallie Kriel (Afrikaans)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>AfriForum says that the fact that President Cyril Ramaphosa once again refused yesterday to condemn the \u201cKill the Boer, kill the farmer\u201d call for genocide and his indication that the government will not take action against Julius Malema for using this slogan is \u2013 according to the South African government\u2019s own criteria for genocide \u2013 a gross violation of the Genocide Convention of the United Nations (UN).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AfriForum bases this statement on the evidence that advocate Tembeka Ngcukaitobi, a member of South Africa\u2019s legal team, led in the genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in January 2024. Ngcukaitobi argued on behalf of South Africa that \u201cthe intentional failure of the government of Israel to condemn, prevent and punish such genocidal incitement constitute in itself a grave violation of the Genocide Convention\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ngcukaitobi further argued that \u201cthis failure to condemn, prevent and punish such speech by the government has served to normalise genocidal rhetoric\u201d and has posed \u201cextreme danger for Palestinians within Israeli society\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Kallie Kriel, CEO of AfriForum, the ANC-led government\u2019s defence of the \u201cKill the Boer\u201d slogan, while passing judgment about similar calls elsewhere in the world as an intent to commit genocide, is evidence of double standards in their interpretation of the Genocide Convention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kriel points out that farm murder deniers are now trying very hard to downplay the serious nature of farm murders after US President Donald Trump has rightly cast the international spotlight on farm attacks in South Africa. This downplaying is done, among other things, by ignoring the victims of farm murders and the torture that accompanies the attacks and instead focusing on a debate about the terminology that should be used to describe farm murders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAfriForum has always focused on the serious nature of farm murders rather than engaging in semantic debates about the term \u2018genocide\u2019 but believes it has now become necessary to test the actions of Ramaphosa\u2019s government against their own standards regarding the meaning of genocide,\u201d says Kriel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Kriel, the South African government has shown in its case against Israel that the number of deaths is not crucial in the classification of genocide and that the focus should rather be on the specific wording of the UN\u2019s Genocide Convention. The Convention\u2019s definition of \u201cgenocide\u201d determines, as the South African government also points out, that there must simply be an \u201cintent to destroy\u201d a group by, among other things, killings, bodily harm or mental harm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kriel furthermore states that Ramaphosa and his government\u2019s failure to condemn the \u201cKill the Boer\u201d slogan (which in terms of the UN Convention indicates very clear genocidal intent) amidst the reality of murders and torture and the calls for violence that lead to fear and mental harm among some, brands the South African government as a violator of the Genocide Convention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"480\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 832 \/ 480;\" width=\"832\" controls src=\"https:\/\/www.artikels.afriforum.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Tembeka-Ngcukaitobi-SC_SA-Israel-ICJ_January-2024-1.mp4\"><\/video><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Advocate Tembeka Ngcukaitobi, a 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