outh Africa has reached a boiling point in the wake of AWB leader Eugene Terre'Blanche's murder, Afrikaans civil organisations said on Sunday.
"Boiling point. These are the only words with which the political climate in South Africa can be described this afternoon after the umpteenth barbaric murder in the country," said Afriforum chairman Flip Buys.
Buys, who is also general secretary of Solidarity was speaking at a joint media conference between Afriforum and Solidarity, hosted by the National Press Club in Pretoria.
Terre'Blanche, leader of the South African white supremacist movement the Afrikaner Weerstands Beweging (AWB), was murdered on his farm 10km outside Ventersdorp on Saturday. He was allegedly attacked by two of his farm employees after a pay dispute.
Buys said the two organisations would take several different actions following the weekend's events. This included approaching the United Nations (UN) Genocide Watch.
"We will ask the UN's Genocide Watch to monitor murder, violence and crime in South Africa preventatively to ensure that levels of such incidents do not escalate even further."
Afriforum was this week successful in a court application to declare a traditional ANC struggle song, sung by ANC Youth League President Julius Malema, illegal. They said the song that included the lyrics "shoot the boer (white farmer)" incited violence against white farmers in the country.
Buys said while President Jacob Zuma's condemnation of Terre'Blanche's murder was welcomed, the ANC and his continued support for the song was in "direct contradiction" of this condemnation.
"It is hypocritical on the one hand to sing and dance joyfully ... to the lyrics and tune of a song, provoking racial genocide, while on the other hand condemning the murders resulting of the climate created in this matter."
Afriforum legal representative Willie Spies said the organisation would ask for a preferential court date in order to push forward the ongoing equality court case against Malema for hate speech in connection with the song.
"We cannot afford uncertainty in this regard."
The organisations also said they would raise fears of "current polarisation and tension in the community" at a prior arranged meeting with police minister Nathi Mthethwa on Wednesday.
Also on the agenda for the upcoming meeting would be safety issues during the soccer World Cup.
Afriforum and Solidarity were also exploring the idea of having a national day of protest against crime.
Buys raised concern about Malema's visit to Zimbabwe, saying the organisations would seek legal opinion as to whether his singing of the song in the neighbouring country constituted contempt of court.
"[Malema's] visit and his statements form an important test for the ANC's commitment to the constitution.
"The ANC has to realise that the struggle had already come to an end in 1994. They are now the rulers of the most modern state and the most sophisticated economy in Africa."
Buys said the country needed to be ruled with "wisdom and judiciousness".
"Africa cannot afford another failure."
National Press Club chairman Yusuf Abramjee said he had heard reports that some black journalists had been intimidated while in Ventersdorp covering the story on Terre'Blanche's murder.
"We condemn right wingers who abuse and threaten black journalists... We are disgusted by the behaviour of some of these racists," he said.
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"Boiling point. These are the only words with which the political climate in South Africa can be described this afternoon after the umpteenth barbaric murder in the country," said Afriforum chairman Flip Buys.
Buys, who is also general secretary of Solidarity was speaking at a joint media conference between Afriforum and Solidarity, hosted by the National Press Club in Pretoria.
Terre'Blanche, leader of the South African white supremacist movement the Afrikaner Weerstands Beweging (AWB), was murdered on his farm 10km outside Ventersdorp on Saturday. He was allegedly attacked by two of his farm employees after a pay dispute.
Buys said the two organisations would take several different actions following the weekend's events. This included approaching the United Nations (UN) Genocide Watch.
"We will ask the UN's Genocide Watch to monitor murder, violence and crime in South Africa preventatively to ensure that levels of such incidents do not escalate even further."
Afriforum was this week successful in a court application to declare a traditional ANC struggle song, sung by ANC Youth League President Julius Malema, illegal. They said the song that included the lyrics "shoot the boer (white farmer)" incited violence against white farmers in the country.
Buys said while President Jacob Zuma's condemnation of Terre'Blanche's murder was welcomed, the ANC and his continued support for the song was in "direct contradiction" of this condemnation.
"It is hypocritical on the one hand to sing and dance joyfully ... to the lyrics and tune of a song, provoking racial genocide, while on the other hand condemning the murders resulting of the climate created in this matter."
Afriforum legal representative Willie Spies said the organisation would ask for a preferential court date in order to push forward the ongoing equality court case against Malema for hate speech in connection with the song.
"We cannot afford uncertainty in this regard."
The organisations also said they would raise fears of "current polarisation and tension in the community" at a prior arranged meeting with police minister Nathi Mthethwa on Wednesday.
Also on the agenda for the upcoming meeting would be safety issues during the soccer World Cup.
Afriforum and Solidarity were also exploring the idea of having a national day of protest against crime.
Buys raised concern about Malema's visit to Zimbabwe, saying the organisations would seek legal opinion as to whether his singing of the song in the neighbouring country constituted contempt of court.
"[Malema's] visit and his statements form an important test for the ANC's commitment to the constitution.
"The ANC has to realise that the struggle had already come to an end in 1994. They are now the rulers of the most modern state and the most sophisticated economy in Africa."
Buys said the country needed to be ruled with "wisdom and judiciousness".
"Africa cannot afford another failure."
National Press Club chairman Yusuf Abramjee said he had heard reports that some black journalists had been intimidated while in Ventersdorp covering the story on Terre'Blanche's murder.
"We condemn right wingers who abuse and threaten black journalists... We are disgusted by the behaviour of some of these racists," he said.
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The powers that be knew this would come one day and that the normal public would be disarmed. But weapons there are plenty 
it does however create an idea that if you don't get your way it's ok to kill a boer.