The prices associated to an incident in 2018 when a video emerged exhibiting Malema utilizing a semi-automatic rifle to hearth a number of pictures within the air throughout his get together’s fifth anniversary celebrations held within the nation’s Eastern Cape province.
In his defence, Malema informed the courtroom the firearm was not his and that he had fired the pictures to rouse the gang, South African information website SowetanLIVE reported on the time.
After being discovered responsible final October, Malema informed his supporters exterior the courtroom in East London that “going to prison or death is a badge of honour”.
“We cannot be scared of prison [or] to die for the revolution. Whatever they want to do, they must know we will never retreat.”
He additionally vowed to take a problem to the judgment up to South Africa’s highest courtroom, the Constitutional Court.
Malema’s prosecution got here when Afrikaner foyer group AfriForum, which has a contentious relationship with him and the EFF, opened a case towards Malema after the video went viral.
