Malema Receives Five-Year Prison Term Over 2018 Rifle Incident
TL;DR
South Africa’s leftist political leader Julius Malema was sentenced to five years in prison after being convicted on gun charges for firing an automatic rifle into the air at a 2018 rally; as a sitting MP, the sentence could bar him from Parliament, though he plans to appeal.
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