The commission has received five complaints arising from statements made by Malema or his party members between 2016 and last year.
Each complaint was considered separately on its owns merits.

SAHRC chair Bongani Majola says that discrimination on the basis of race is an emotive issue in South Africa, which should be considered.
"Wherever and whoever it comes from, we have to bear the emotive and divisive nature of the hate speech in mind."
But he also points out that various Equality Court rulings on hate speech are not unanimous and therefore need more legal clarity on where the boundaries are.

"Partly because the law itself in this regard is not yet crystal clear and partly because we wanted to view and review the conclusions that the legal principles seemed to be compelling us towards."
One of the complaints that the commission was asked to investigate was a statement that Malema made saying that he is not calling for the slaughter of white people, for now.
The commission says that Malema clarified that in the context of his statement - he was speaking to a group of people who don't have land.


Source: EWN