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The Johannesburg high court is on Thursday expected to deliver judgment in the Dubul’ ibhunu (or "Kill the Boer") case involving EFF leader Julius Malema and MP Mbuyiseni Ndlozi.

Archives should position themselves to be able to serve pupils, even those on the periphery of the country, perhaps through imaging of records and sending information via platforms such as WhatsApp.

Je ziet ze misschien wat minder vaak, maar ze zijn er natuurlijk volop: boerinnen. Zo ook vroeger. Hoe zag hun leven er toen uit? Check deze foto's van vroeger!

South Africans have learnt that democracy isn’t simply a destination that they reached with the formal end of apartheid on 27 April 1994.

Both songs carry the same weight and both songs may have been unwittingly sent to the guillotine by AfriForum’s need to erase cultural experiences that do not relate to its agenda.​

The role of songs in performance politics and how the struggle past intersects with the present was dissected in the Equality Court on Friday through the testimony of African literature scholar Prof Elizabeth Gunner.

Provocative struggle songs still have a place in contemporary SA, despite being racially charged and about violence when viewed literally, as they carried potent political symbolism.

AfriForum insists that the singing of anti-apartheid song “Shoot the Boer” by the EFF and the ANC was directly linked with an increase in farm attacks even though it could not indicate the ratio of farm murders and attacks compared to other similar criminal acts throughout the country.

The EFF is accused of hate speech and inciting violence by lobby group AfriForum.

Struggle songs are not meant as literal engagement and are not intended to incite violence, EFF leader Julius Malema told the Equality Court on Thursday.