{"id":87876,"date":"2026-04-16T22:06:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T22:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=87876"},"modified":"2026-04-16T22:06:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T22:06:12","slug":"south-african-marxist-leader-gets-five-year-jail-sentence-for-firing-assault-rifle-at-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/04\/16\/south-african-marxist-leader-gets-five-year-jail-sentence-for-firing-assault-rifle-at-rally\/","title":{"rendered":"South African Marxist leader gets five-year jail sentence for firing assault rifle at rally"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA212MiW.img?w=534&amp;h=335&amp;m=6&amp;x=1088&amp;y=315&amp;s=283&amp;d=283\" alt=\"Julius Malema was handed a five-year prison sentence for shooting an assault rifle in the air during an EFF rally in 2018 - Esa Alexander\/Reuters\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A radical Left-wing politician cited by Donald Trump as evidence of the\u00a0<a class=\"ck-custom-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/world-news\/2025\/02\/15\/white-south-africans-protest-racist-laws-thank-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">persecution of white farmers<\/a> in South Africa has been sentenced to five years in jail on firearms charges. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/south-african-marxist-leader-gets-five-year-jail-sentence-for-firing-assault-rifle-at-rally\/ar-AA212v8U?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69e15b8c7ec049e49b76986ce81028a8&amp;ei=44\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>A radical Left-wing politician cited by Donald Trump as evidence of the\u00a0persecution of white farmers in South Africa has been sentenced to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-87876","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Julius-Malema.gif","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87877,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87876\/revisions\/87877"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}