Malema says Ramaphosa failed to defend ‘Kill the Boer’

"The judiciary has expressed itself on this matter including the highest court in the land and I was very interested to hear how the president is going to defend the struggle song that the ANC has defended throughout the history of that song."

Malema told supporters in the Free State on Sunday that he won't be intimidated by the US leader.

His remarks come after Ramaphosa and Trump's much-talked-about meeting at the White House last week. Trump played a four-minute-long video in support of his claims of a "white genocide" in the country, that featured clips of Malema singing the anti-apartheid song.

Ramaphosa and his delegation distanced themselves from the lyrics.

Malema says the ANC has over the years defended the song.

"He did not explain that the song does not mean in any way refer to the literal killing of white people. It was used about a white supremacist system of oppression in South Africa."

Meanwhile, former president Thabo Mbeki defended the song - saying it is a symbolic expression rooted in the anti-apartheid struggle.

 He was speaking to the SABC.

"It was a chant during the days of the struggle and chants of that kind, in the African tradition, you don't take it literally. The ANC policy was forever against the killing of civilians. It's a chant to motivate people, it was never taken literally."