83% of EFF voters say the Kill the Boer song is “hate speech” or “irresponsible”…

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Eighty-three (83%) of Economic Freedom Front (EFF) voters feel that the Kill the Boer song “land somewhere between irresponsible and hate speech”. That is according to a recent Social Research Foundation (SRF) survey on public perceptions around hate speech, free speech, - and that controversial song. In this interview with BizNews, the SRF’s Research Director Gabriel Makin says of that 83%, 57% of EFF supporters say that the song is clearly hate speech as it calls for direct physical harm specifically against white Afrikaans farmers who are being murdered in disproportionate numbers - and as such believe it should be banned. “So that's a majority of the support base of the political leader who's driving the kind of narrative around Kill the Boer saying that actually the song that he's singing is hate speech and that he the song itself should be banned and he should be barred from singing it.” Similarly to EFF voters, former President Jacob Zuma’s MK supporters also express opposition to the song Kill the Boer. “They think it is irresponsible to sing or they think generally it should be banned.” Commenting on these significant findings, Makin says: “…one of the trends…that emerges from our data is that the bulk of South Africa is moderate, it's staid, it's pragmatic. It's not the kind of racially obsessed, radical, radical populist population that some of our political leaders wish it were.”
24 Apr 8AM English South Africa Investing · Business News

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