286:, Gouws used racial slurs calling for the 'killing of all black people'. The excerpt came from a longer video recorded by Gouws in 2010, which had previously been deleted from Gouws's YouTube channel but was still available in an archive from 2012. In the video, Gouws says he did not truly mean the words he said and that they were for the purpose of creating context for the anger at then ANC youth league leader
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525:"KYK | DA skors nuwe LP Renaldo Gouws oor k-woord-video"
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