Julius Malema, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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South African political activist
Date of Birth: 03-Mar-1981
Place of Birth: Seshego, Limpopo, South Africa
Profession: politician
Nationality: South Africa
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
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About Julius Malema
- Julius Sello Malema (born 3 March 1981) is a South African Pan Africanist politician who serves as Member of Parliament and the leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters, a South African political party, which he founded in July 2013.
- He previously served as President of the African National Congress Youth League from 2008 to 2012.
- Malema was a member of the ANC from the age of nine until his expulsion from the party in April 2012 at the age of thirty-one.
- He occupies a notably controversial position in South African public and political life, having risen to prominence with his support for ANC president, and later President of South Africa, Jacob Zuma.
- He was described by both Zuma and the Premier of Limpopo Province as the "future leader" of South Africa.
- Less favourable portraits paint him as a "reckless populist" with the potential to destabilise South Africa and to spark racial conflict.Malema was convicted of hate speech in March 2010 and again in September 2011.
- In November 2011, he was found guilty of sowing divisions within the ANC and in conjunction with his two-year suspended sentence in May 2010 was suspended from the party for five years.
- In 2011, he was again convicted of hate speech after singing "Dubula iBunu" ("Shoot the Boer"), a decision upheld on appeal, leading to his expulsion from the ANC.In 2012, Malema was charged with fraud, money-laundering and racketeering.
- After numerous postponements, the case was dismissed by the courts in 2015 due to excessive delays by the National Prosecuting Authority, leading to perceptions that the charges were politically motivated.
- However, Afrikaner rights group AfriForum announced in 2018 that it would mount a private prosecution of Malema on the corruption charges.
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