NATIONAL NEWS - A video clip showing Black First Land First (BLF) president Andile Mngxitama threatening that he and his followers will kill white people and their pets has raised renewed calls for him to prosecuted for hate speech.
Mngxitama was speaking at a party event in Potchefstroom on Saturday.
However, he said on Sunday that he had been speaking in the context of “self-defence” and was being misunderstood and taken out of that supposed context.
Mngxitama said he would only kill white people if they killed black people first.
He also involved billionaire businessman Johann Rupert in his explanation, claiming that Rupert is somehow involved in stoking black-on-black violence by “paying” taxi bosses to kill black people and he would not stand for it.
Numerous videos calling for the BLF leader to be taken to task have already started circulating (see below).
He said on Saturday that “they” would kill white people’s children, women, dogs, cats and “anything that comes before us”.
BLF spokesperson Lindsay Maasdorp earlier this year told The Citizen that they considered white existence to be “a crime”. He also repeated his party’s slogan “land or death.”
