Julius Malema sentenced to prison

Julius Malema, the head of South Africa’s far-left Economic Freedom Fighters party, was sentenced yesterday to five years in prison for firing an automatic rifle into the air during a 2018 political rally. The Economic Freedom Fighters is a Marxist group that advocates race war with white South Africans. Malema has publicly stated, “Kill the Boer” and “Our revolution will require us to kill.” Malema, who is appealing the sentencing, may be his movement’s biggest agitator, but imprisoning him won’t fix South Africa’s racial tension, and it just might make him a political martyr.