Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema, 45, was sentenced to five years in prison on Thursday by Magistrate Twanet Olivier in KuGompo City after being convicted of five offences including unlawful possession of a firearm, discharging it in public, and reckless endangerment. The charges stemmed from a 2018 incident in which Malema fired a semi-automatic rifle into the air during the EFF’s fifth anniversary celebrations in the Eastern Cape. Olivier allowed Malema to appeal the sentence, meaning he did not ...