South African opposition leader Julius Malema, 45, was sentenced to five years in prison on Thursday for illegally possessing a firearm and discharging the weapon in public.
Malema is the head of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), a far-left opposition party that attracted global criticism for chanting “Kill the Boer, Kill the Farmer” at its rallies.
South Africa’s dominant African National Congress (ANC) and its court system twisted themselves into pretzels to insist the EFF chant was not a call to violence or an example of hate speech, instead portraying it as some kind of metaphorical call to social justice and liberation.
For his part…
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