The national secretary of the Verkenners Beweging (scouts' movement) Ben Geldenhuys has challenged ANC youth league leader Julius Malema to "shoot me" instead of innocent farmers, and even named a place, date, and time for the event.

In a statement on Thursday, Geldenhuys said the Verkenners Beweging was "furious" about Malema's singing "shoot the boer".

Since the ANC came to power in 1994, more than 3000 farmers, mainly elderly and women, had been brutally murdered on their farms.

This could not simply be ascribed to crime, Geldenhuys said.

Malema's utterances were considered by the Verkenners Beweging as incitement to murder farmers and was totally unacceptable.

"If Malema is so keen to shoot a boer, let him come shoot me instead of inciting other people to murder defenceless elderly farmers and women.

"To make it easy for him, I will wait for him at Fort Schanskop at 12 noon on March 19, 2010," Geldenhuys said.