The ANC is Malema on song

20 April 2011, last updated at 15: 54 GMT key ANC figures have their youth the President right, singing the song fight of the head of the South African ANC Youth League, Julius Malema, defended in Johannesburg in a high-profile hate speech study taken the witness stand.

An Afrikaans community is looking for a ban on Mr Malema sings a song controversial apartheid era with the words "Shoot the Boer".

"Boer" means farmer in Afrikaans and they say, its use incites racial hatred.

Mr Malema began his statement insists he is not aggressive man, and that the song should be taken not literally.

'No burning'

Hundreds of demonstrators are the dramatic study, which is referred to outside on large TV screens for those outside the High Court.

Prosecutors, said that the mandate to speak for the people how has a leader of the African National Congress (ANC), Mr Malema and that was what "makes concerned people so intense about what you say and do".

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this song is a historical song, which is still relevant for the current conditions of our struggle"

end quote Julius Malema head of the ANC Youth League Mr Malema denied "Agitator".

"You must understand the context of the song," he said in court.

"This song is a historical song, which is still relevant for the current conditions of our struggle." "As long as we fight over not explain, that song remains relevant."

Borrow key ANC figures who have come to their support, Mr Malema said the song is part of the ANC history, part of their fight, says Allen, is the Court of Justice outside the BBC's Karen.

It is a direct call to violence, saying it a way of remembrance for South Africa's recent history, our correspondent says.

Mr Malema sang the song at a rally in Johannesburg last year in a row in one country to the racism caused is still a challenge, 16 years after the end of white minority rule is.

AfriForum, an advocacy group Afrikaans, brought the case against Mr Malema. The group says are his actions due to a spate of murders of white farmers.

According to Tau SA, a South African Union agricultural, have been murdered 1489 white farmers since 1990.

Since the beginning of the study on 11 April have key figures, ANC Secretary General Gwede Mantashe, including the President their youth law on the fight song sing defended.

Winnie madikizela-Mandela, the ex-wife of former President Nelson Mandela, has said of Mr Malema.

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