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ANC's Malema disciplinary hearing drags through the night

A disciplinary hearing by South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) into its fiery youth leader, Julius Malema, stretched well into Thursday night after being moved to a secret location.

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Sources said the party’s Secretary General Gwede Mantashe was testifying against Malema who is charged with sowing division and bringing the party into disrepute.

It is difficult keeping up with Malema’s disciplinary hearing that has been moved to a secret location to stop disruptive demonstations by his supporters.

ANC spokesperson Keith Khoza says Malema is trying to stretch out proceedings as long as he can.

Five other members of the Youth League’s leadership are carpeted with Malema for advocating regime change in neighbouring Botswana and storming into a meeting of the ANC executive.

Malema has stayed in the headlines by attacking the judge who found him guilty of hate speech for singing a song calling for white farmers to be shot.

The song dates back to the ANC’s liberation struggle.

Malema says the ruling by Judge Collin Lamont was racist.

He has vowed to push for reform of the court system because he says it has not changed since the apartheid era.

He maintains black South Africans find themselves subjected to white minority approval and that apartheid is being brought back through the back door.

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