"Kill all Boers doesn't actually mean 'kill all Boers'" is stupid and wrong (especially considering the history of SA and what people like Winnie Mandela were up to), but "it's a literal call for genocide" is also stupid and hysterical.
This issue is easy to understand as long as you're familiar with the concept of the 'phatic expression'[0]. It is perfectly possible for these folks to say 'kill the Boer' without actually meaning it to be a call for genocide, instead meaning something along the lines of "fuck the Boer".
On the other hand, it's easy to understand why folks who don't have a history of singing this song would hear the actual meaning, rather than the 'phatic' meaning, of the words. And given that the singers are on the record advocating for the seizure of Boer land, it seems kind of silly to just take their word for it when they claim that this line of the song has a 'phatic' meaning rather than a literal one.
Regardless, it seems clear that the party use the term to instill and stoke racial hatred:
> Nomalanga Mkhize, a historian at Nelson Mandela University, said of the chant: “Young people feel that it rouses them up when they sing it today. I don’t think that they intend it to mean any harm.”
We don't actually want to kill you, but the kids sure do love singing about it!
Also, is anyone else worried about the Times? Is their spin machine mis-calibrated? I know they're left-leaning, but carrying water for racist communists seems a bit much, even for them.
> I know they're left-leaning, but carrying water for racist communists seems a bit much, even for them.
I believe it is because they pander to an audience that suffers from Elon Derangement Syndrome: those people think that no matter what Elon says or does, it's wrong, if he asks something he's even wrong to ask it. Now that Trump is in the background, these people needed someone they can hate passionately, and to me it looks like it's Elon since he took over Twitter.
(https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1687520435825745920)