Malema was convicted of hate speech in March 2010[7][8][9] and again in September 2011.[10] 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.[11] 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

In 2012, Malema was charged with fraud, money-laundering and racketeering.[13] After numerous postponements,[14][15] 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.[16] However, Afrikaner rights group AfriForum announced in 2018 that it would mount a private prosecution of Malema on the corruption charges