{"id":12436,"date":"2025-10-01T09:40:48","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T07:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/sas-eff-leader-malema-found-guilty-in-firearm-case\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:25:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:25:47","slug":"sas-eff-leader-malema-found-guilty-in-firearm-case","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sas-eff-leader-malema-found-guilty-in-firearm-case\/","title":{"rendered":"SA\u2019s EFF leader Malema found guilty in firearm case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While his co-accused Adriaan Snyman has been found not guilty.<\/p>\n<p>Malema was facing a charge of discharging a firearm during EFF&#8217;s 5th anniversary celebrations at Sisa Dukashe stadium in Mdantsane in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>While his former bodyguard, Snyman, was facing charges of unlawful possession of a firearm and ammunition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":12437,"template":"default||default||default||default||default||default||default||default","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[],"class_list":["post-12436","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"South Africa\u2019s opposition party Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader, Julius Malema has been found guilty by the East London Magistrate's Court in the Eastern Cape Province.||South Africa\u2019s opposition party Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader, Julius Malema has been found guilty by the East London Magistrate's Court in the Eastern Cape Province.||South Africa\u2019s opposition party Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader, Julius Malema has been found guilty by the East London Magistrate's Court in the Eastern Cape Province.||South Africa\u2019s opposition party Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader, Julius Malema has been found guilty by the East London Magistrate's Court in the Eastern Cape Province.||South Africa\u2019s opposition party Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader, Julius Malema has been found guilty by the East London Magistrate's Court in the Eastern Cape Province.||South Africa\u2019s opposition party Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader, Julius Malema has been found guilty by the East London Magistrate's Court in the Eastern Cape Province.||South Africa\u2019s opposition party Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader, Julius Malema has been found guilty by the East London Magistrate's Court in the Eastern Cape Province.||South Africa\u2019s opposition party Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader, Julius Malema has been found guilty by the East London Magistrate's Court in the Eastern Cape Province.","published_date":null,"news_description":"","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/12436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/12436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18045,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/12436\/revisions\/18045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=12436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}