Ernst Roets
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The Charlie Kirk Show · "Kill the Boer:" What's Really Happening in South Africa · 15 May 2025
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Well, Charlie, great to meet you, too. And it's great to be on the show. And thank you very much for talking about this and and for having me on the show. Good to speak to you here from Pretoria, South Africa.
So the book is entitled Kill the Boer. It was published in 2018. And the title was chosen because that is also the title of a very famous political chant in South Africa that I'm sure you've seen and your viewers have seen that is becoming increasingly popular.
a chant it's not a song it's a chant of which the lyrics are kill the work kill the farmer shoot to kill kill a man and the word blur of course refers to the afrikaner people so it's an ethnic or cultural community that is targeted and the book is well it took me three years to to write it's very extensively researched and the the main argument if i can summarize is that farm attacks
There are many problems, crime phenomena in South Africa, but the farm killings are very unique for a variety of reasons. The one is the extreme disproportionate rate at which farmers are being attacked and killed in South Africa. The second is the extreme levels of brutality, the worst tortures imaginable happening during these farm attacks. And I can tell you about that if you want.
The third is the unique role that farmers have to play in South Africa in terms of providing food for the nation, but also in terms of being employers and employing people and so forth. And then the fourth reason is just the fact that a crime phenomenon such as this deserves a unique counter strategy because the farmers are far away from police stations and so forth.
But on top of this, what we have is not just a disproportionate and an extremely brutal crime phenomenon.
We have a crime phenomenon here that is actively encouraged and romanticized by some of the most senior and influential politicians in South Africa, chanting kill the Boer from public platforms, then being protected by the Constitutional Court, which is, you could say, the Supreme Court in South Africa, and then being protected by the president who publicly denies that this problem is happening.
And then on top of that, we have now this threat to property rights with the ruling party, the ANC, openly saying that they want to take or confiscate property that belongs to white people and redistribute it. And then they call this EWC, expropriation without compensation.
And then they would try to convince us that targeting property rights and destroying the free market would somehow be good for the economy as it would lead to what they call black empowerment, which is just, or transformation, that's the other term, which is just the South African term for DEI, as we know it.
Yes, it has become a regular thing. There was a time when it wasn't chanted that often, and now it has become a new way of, you might say, targeting the Boers and poking fun at the Boers, making fun of them and so forth.
So that is a political rally by a party ironically called the Economic Freedom Fighters, proclaiming to fight for economic freedom, when of course it's nothing but a communist movement, very much philosophically influenced by Frantz Fanon and his justification of violence.
And this party is ideologically very much aligned with the ruling party in South Africa, very close to them, even though they are competing for votes. And this, what we see here, is a political chant that is always or almost always...
It follows on a political speech during which the politician speaking would speak about how, for example, and this is a direct quote, all white people are criminals and should be treated as such. And statements such as, if you see a beautiful piece of land, go and take it, it is yours. And statements such as, we are going to slit the throat of whiteness.
And I could just keep on mentioning examples. So it's this very provocative speech followed by the chanting of kill the boer.
Well, let me firstly say the counter argument to concerns about farmer tax is always yes, but there are other crimes also in South Africa, gang-related violence and so forth. And that is true. But what we have with the farmers being targeted in South Africa and killed is a complete disproportionate targeting of this section of society. Because remember, there are very few farmers.
There are about 30,000 commercial farmers in South Africa who are now being targeted, not just attacked and killed, but as I mentioned previously, very brutally tortured, in some cases tortured for hours during these attacks.
And what we also find in some of these attacks are the attackers chanting political slogans such as kill the boer while they torture their victims, making political statements, referencing certain politicians, making some racist commentary and so forth. And in one of the worst cases, it was an elderly, two elderly women, a mother and her daughter who were both elderly,
who were severely tortured and killed on a farm. And the attackers actually went as far as taking the blood of the victims and writing the words, kill the Boer, on a farmhouse. So it's really, really alarming. And it's particularly alarming to see the extent to which the media is trying to downplay this.
Yes. So we have been here since 1652, which is 300, almost 400 years ago. My family has been here. The first roots of whom I directly descend lived at the time of George Washington. He was a little bit older than George Washington himself.
uh and uh he that's when he came to south africa from europe the afrikaner people descend from the predominantly from the dutch the french and the germans who came to south africa during the 16 and 1700s we became a people in south africa we have our own language which we named after the continent afrikaans we we called our own we named ourselves after the continent we are the afrikaners
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