Freudian concepts shed light on the symptoms of the political malaise evident in AfriForum’s court battle
EFF leader Julius Malema. Picture: ALAISTER RUSSELL/SUNDAY TIMES
Examples of overdetermination are the neatly packaged eight-minute Malema “highlights” on YouTube, to go with claims, even in the most left-wing of publications, that he came across as a man of integrity and wiped the floor with AfriForum’s counsel, Mark Oppenheimer. And that the EFF won, hands down, in the court of public opinion even before the verdict was given.
Apart from that, Malema gave AfriForum a sound bite to die for: Oppenheimer got him to squirm as he said under oath that someone will one day call for the murder of whites and he might be that person. This makes fools out of the Human Rights Commission of SA for finding that his previous declaration on the matter was just a joke.
— and that the “boer” once was a potent symbol of white rule cultivated by the apartheid and colonial regimes and therefore a legitimate target. Another was supplied by eNCA news when it reported on the testimony of Gabriel Crouse that the EFF crowd was singing about burning farms. Instead of covering this properly, let alone informing us what the outcome of the fires was or where we stand with the Horner case, it chose to focus at length on Crouse’s connections as an activist-journalist.Many white people too, anxious about being seen on the same page as AfriForum, are fond of equating it with the EFF as the opposite ends of extremism.
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