A South African court has sentenced Julius Malema, the leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), to five years of direct imprisonment.

Malema received a five-year prison sentence and another two-year sentence that was ordered to run concurrently with the five years.

Windhoek High Court judge Thomas Masuku has overturned the Electoral Commission of Namibia's (ECN) decision to deregister the Namibia Economic Freedom Fighters (NEFF) as a political party.