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South Africa’s firebrand opposition chief on Saturday vowed to keep utilizing controversial chants that featured in a contentious White House assembly between the US and South African presidents.During talks in Washington on Wednesday, US President Donald Trump ambushed his South African counterpart Cyril Ramaphosa by exhibiting a four-minute-long video in help of his claims of a “white genocide” within the nation that overcame many years of apartheid.Julius Malema, a 44-year-old opposition politician, was the principle character within the video, seen in a number of clips sporting the purple beret of his populist, Marxist-inspired Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) celebration and chanting calls to “cut the throat of whiteness” in addition to a controversial anti-apartheid song “Kill the Boer, kill the farmer”.The decades-old “Kill the Boer” rallying cry was born in the course of the wrestle in opposition to the brutal insurance policies of white-minority rule, and its use because the finish of apartheid in 1994 infuriates events that signify white South Africans, with many making an attempt to get it banned.A ban in 2010 was lifted after courts stated it doesn’t represent hate speech and as a substitute ought to be regarded in its historic context, and for the truth that it was being utilized by Malema solely as a “provocative means of advancing his party’s political agenda”.Speaking at a regional election on Saturday, Malema stated the controversial lyrics had been “the heritage of our struggle” and vowed to keep on utilizing them.“It is not my song. I did not compose this song,” Malema stated in televised feedback. “The struggle heroes composed this song. All I am doing it to defend the legacy of our struggle.”“Therefore I will never stop singing” the song, he stated. “That will be a betrayal to the struggle of our people.”Malema, 44, is an opposition politician, chief of the anti-capitalist and anti-US EFF that he based in 2013 after being thrown out of the youth league of the ruling African National Congress, the place he was accused of fomenting divisions.He portrays himself because the defender of society’s most deprived and has attracted largely younger supporters offended on the giant social inequalities that exist in South Africa 30 years after the tip of apartheid.In the tense Oval Office assembly, Ramaphosa and his delegation distanced themselves from Malema’s rhetoric.