Agter Elke Man and Egoli star Steve Hofmeyr – who also has a successful career as a pop singer and balladeer – has admitted that the furore he created around Bono’s Kill the Boer comments was all a publicity stunt. What about this one then? . . . now the crooner wants to hitch to Cape Town . . . on a tractor. CT 2c U2. click here. Apparently it’s all about creating awareness around farm murders. It’s starting to get a bit strange.
Hofmeyr admitted his campaign against Bono had been a publicity stunt but, according to News24, said that “he would do anything to focus attention on the deaths of Afrikaner boere (farmers)”.
Bono has already dismissed Hofmeyr’s allegations as ridiculous. U2’s Bono causes stir over ‘kill the boer’.
Hofmeyr started his campaign against Bono when he tore up U2 tickets and threw them into the Jukskei River. He later parodied the U2 song Sunday Bloody Sunday on his official website. See the lyrics here.
You have to ask the question: “Steve, why do you so desperately need the publicity?”. If there was a Moegoe of the Week award, this guy would surely be in pole position.