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The Congress of South African Trade Unions backs the call, by the National Union of Mineworkers and COSATU’s North West Province, to urge AfriForum to drop their attempt to persuade the courts to ban the Dubul’ Ibhunu song, and, if they persist, for the judge to reject their case.
It would be a grave mistake to try to ban the singing of struggle songs including this one. These songs are part of our national heritage. They do not constitute a call to take up arms against whites as a race group or as individuals, but against the system of oppression and apartheid.
Whether the lyrics of such struggle songs should be sung today is another debate, but banning them is not practical; people will still sing them nevertheless.
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