South African opposition politician Julius Malema has been found guilty of illegal possession of a gun and firing it in public, offences which carry a minimum sentence of 15 years in prison.In 2018, a video emerged showing the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader using a semi-automatic rifle to fire several shots in the air during his party’s fifth anniversary celebrations held in the country’s Eastern Cape province.He was charged alongside his former bodyguard Adriaan Snyman, who was acquitted.Malema wasconvicted of hate speechless than two months ago and often lashes out at the white minority in a country where, 31 years after apartheid ended, racial tensions still run high.
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