The Chapter Nine institution said that it had received various complaints from members of the public claiming that Malema made a series of threatening statements against white people.
JOHANNESBURG - The South African Human Rights Commission has threatened to take the Economic Freedom Fighters and its president, Julius Malema to the Equality Court within 10 days if he does not retract certain statements made during the party’s Western Cape provincial elective conference last month."You must never be scared to kill. A revolution demands that at some point there must be killing because the killing is part of a revolutionary act.
In a statement, the commission added that the EFF and Malema must take "undertakings to desist from further promotion of hatred and violence on any ground" within 10 days.
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