This as AfriForum took the matter of a comment made by the BLF leader, Andile Mngxitama, during his speech at the Tlokwe Stadium in Potchefstroom in the North West in 2018 to court. During this rally, Mngxitama threatened to kill five white people for every black person killed. AfriForum then instructed its legal team to prepare court documents to lay a charge of hate speech against Mngxitama. AfriForum deputy CEO, Ernst Roets, previously said Mngxitama's remarks were "blatant hate speech and incitement of violence", and that the organisation would "fight it with the necessary earnestness".

The Time’s news report claims that in the court documents, AfriForum said it would request that Mngxitama be ordered to pay R500 000 to an organisation campaigning towards battling hate speech. BLF has since defended its president, saying he had been speaking in the context of self-defence. "You kill one of us, we will kill five of you. We will kill their children, we will kill their women, we will kill anything that we find on our way," Mngxitama said. Mngxitama once stated that his remarks were in self-defence against the statement made by billionaire Johann Rupert about the taxi industry. His remarks have since received wide condemnation from different political organisations which include the Democratic Alliance (DA).

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