Former President Thabo Mbeki has defended the singing of the Kill the Boer Kill the Farmer song, saying it is just a chant, and doesnt mean white farmers must be killed.
Speaking to the SABC in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Mbeki says he explained the song during the Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings.
The song was also played during President Cyril Ramaphosa and President Donald Trumps meeting at the Oval Office in Washington.
Mbeki says today, people are exaggerating about the song in an effort to push their agenda.
It was a chant during the days of the struggle. And chants of that kind in an African tradition, you dont take literally. At the TRC, to illustrate the point, I sang the song. The ANC policy was forever against the killing of civilians.