South Africa’s Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party leader Julius Malema says he is not afraid to go to prison and believes the courts are being used to settle political scores.
Malema was addressing his supporters outside the East London Regional Court in the Eastern Cape province, after the adjournment of his pre-sentencing hearing yesterday. This follows his firearm discharge conviction in October last year.
The state has indicated it will propose a prison sentence for Malema while his defense team asked for a fine or suspended sentence. He says he will continue his fight for economic freedom.
“The white people who brought us to this court, it is because they don’t like being challenged, when you challenge them they like to use you as an example. I have been an example for the rest of my life and I will be an example even in my grave, I will never retreat, I will never surrender to white supremacy no prison can make me retreat from my ideas, no death will threaten me to retreat from my ideas, nobody will ever intimidate me and change me for who I am.”
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