Media row breaks out over Afrikaans singer/activist Steve Hofmeyr singing the peaceful"Die Stem", The Call of South Africa: July 6 2014 Innibos Arts Festival
(The Ode to South Africa by poet C.J. Langenhoven). He sang: "Ringing out from our blue heavens, from our deep seas breaking round;
Over everlasting mountains where the echoing crags resound;
From our plains where creaking waggons cut their trails into the earth Calls
the spirit of our Country, of the land that gave us birth.
At thy call we shall not falter, firm and steadfast we shall stand,
At thy will to live or perish, O South Africa, dear land.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2wDNYVe7uo
Steve Hofmeyr:
https://twitter.com/steve_hofmeyr/status/110471997955383296
#Naspers newspaper group commentators demand Hofmeyr's arrest and that 'Die Stem' must be banned.
Compare the words of this peaceful song with the genocidal hatespeech song sung by SA's president Jacob Zuma.
-- Which song should be banned: the song of love or the song of hatred?
Words of Zuma's Kill the Boer:
"Power to the People: come together all the winners. We're going to shoot them with the machine gun, they are going to run, you are the Boer, and you are going to run, Shoot the Boer, and you are going to run, We going to shoot them with the machine gun, they are going to run
Jacob Zuma sings: Shoot the Boer; the Cabinet will shoot them with the machine gun: they are going to run...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHLTKZ05zM4&feature=youtu.be![]()
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