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Just In: Julius Malema Jailed After 2018 Rally Shooting
EFF leader Julius Malema has been handed an effective seven-year prison sentence by Magistrate Twanet Olivier in the KuGompo City Regional Court.
The ruling relates to an incident at the party’s 2018 Mdantsane rally, where Malema was found guilty of unlawfully firing a weapon.
He was sentenced to five years for the primary charge and an additional two years for a secondary offence.
He was also fined R20,000 on other charges, with the option of serving six months for each if unpaid.
All sentences will run concurrently, resulting in a total effective jail term of seven years