Times Live articles:
ANC Youth League leader, Julius Malema attended his disciplinary hearing on Monday due to several charges of disorderly conduct, but the biggest being his public abuse of a BBC journalist last month.
The charges were withdrawn during the course of the trial after a plea bargain was reached with Malema's representative. For a guilty plea to a verbally attacking the President in public the other three charges of journalist abuse and singing an illegal racist song inciting violence.
Malema only plead guilty to publicly attacking President Zuma after Zuma rebuked him and was found guilty of only that charge.
As a result of the trial, Malema was ordered to attend anger management courses, make a public apology to President Zuma, the ANC and the public, to also pay a fine of R10,000 to the youth development board, and finally to attend the party's political school for 20 days.
Many people are upset with the way the proceeding was handeled especially the charge of Malema assaulting a journalist being dropped.
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