[Image: Boerelegioen]
‘White genocide is “clearly imagined and not real”, the South African high court just ruled, flying in the face of Elon Musk’s wild claims about his place of birth that has sparked a strange spate of protests across the country.
The ruling came as the court blocked a wealthy benefactor’s donation to the white supremacist group Boerelegioen (some members pictured in combat and roughage above).
Grantland Michael Bray wanted to bequeath £1.7 million (just under R40 million) to the group to help it “further its messages of racial hatred and separation”.
Let’s just take a moment to imagine what that amount of money can do in sane hands.
Bray, who died in 2022, had set aside his millions in his will to fund training programmes by the BL, which he believed would “exterminate every black person in South Africa”. The BL describes itself as “a civil defence movement that enables citizens to resist the promised slaughter of whites as well as the theft of their property”.
Thankfully, the court ruled this request as invalid, vague and “contrary to public policy” – a ruling that also undermines comments made by US President Donald Trump and his adviser Musk.
Musk—who is originally from SA before making his way to the US on dad’s dime—has been pretty vocal about the situation with farmers back home. He’s called out what he claims are “racist ownership laws” and has even gone as far as saying there’s a “genocide of white people” happening.
Meanwhile, Trump—who’s usually all about cracking down on immigration—made an exception for white South African farmers, saying they could settle in the US as refugees because of the persecution he believes they’re facing. He’s also thrown around nonsense phrases like “large-scale killing of farmers” when talking about the issue.
Earlier this month, Trump signed an executive order freezing financial aid to the country over a new law “allowing for land seizures by the South African government under certain circumstances” (once again Trump’s comments are steeped in misinformation).
Meanwhile, Bray became paranoid about violent attacks on the white minority after BL engaged in ‘fearmongering’ to convince people that murders of white farmers signified the start of a white genocide, Judge Rosheni Allie said in court.
The recent court action was brought by Mr Gray’s four siblings, who are also trustees and beneficiaries of the family trust. In it, they claimed that their brother had become “obsessed with the idea of an impending genocide of white people in South Africa” in the last 10 years of his life.
Mr Gray became paralysed following an accident at age 26 while doing military service and had become increasingly paranoid about the supposed “genocide” that would occur soon.
“That idea was further fuelled by his already present racism and the online content that he was exposed to,” Judge Rosheni Allie summarised in a 15 February ruling that has just come to light.
Mr Gray first crossed paths with the Boerelegioen in 2020 and allegedly handed over about £258,000 (R6 million) in gold coins to fund their cause—and, apparently, to secure himself a spot in the racist group.
Not stopping there, he went ahead and made them a beneficiary in his will (which has obviously p*ssed off the siblings) even specifying that some of the money should go towards their various training programmes.
This is messy because there were three different entities all going by the name “Boerelegioen.” So when the case landed in court, the judge basically said it was too “vague” about who was supposed to get the money. Not to mention the incredible racism of the whole affair.
“The only expression of the [Mr Gray’s] intention that is evident is the intention for the funds to be used for ‘training’ as well as [his] own assertions that he wanted the funds used to benefit an organisation which he deemed to be one which will exterminate every black person in South Africa and will be used to defend or ward off a white genocide, which is clearly imagined and not real,” Judge Allie said.
On the public policy issue, Mr Gray’s siblings contended that Boerelegioen wanted to use the funds to “further… its messages of racial hatred and separation”.
Naturally, Boerelegioen says it simply provides security and training services to communities and does not exclude anyone on the basis of race, gender or religion. Not that any black folk would dare join, or even want to for that matter.
Judge Allie ruled in favour of the siblings and ordered Boerelegioen to pay the costs in the court case.
Despite numerous claims in the past of the systematic targeting of the country’s white Afrikaner minority group, local crime statistics figures paint a different picture.
South Africa does not release crime figures based on race but the latest figures revealed that 6,953 people were murdered in the country between October and December 2024. Of these, 12 were killed in farm attacks. Of the 12, one was a farmer, while five were farm dwellers and four were employees, who are likely to have been black.
In contrast, 961 women were murdered alongside 273 children – let’s hear the rallying call over femicide instead, please.
[Source: BBC]
