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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.