The DA has welcomed the Western Cape equality courts decision to find EFF leader Julius Malema guilty of hate speech, while he says the ruling is a distortion of history and philosophy, and trampled on freedom of speech.
The court, sitting in Cape Town, found Malema guilty of hate speech on Wednesday for remarks he made at his partys rally in 2022 after EFF members fought with residents at Brackenfell High School in Cape Town after allegations that the schools matric dance was for whites only.
However, the SA Human Rights Commission SAHRC later found the allegations to be false as the event was open to all pupils.