Could suspended DA MP Gouws face a prison sentence for a hate speech video? Criminal law experts comment

DA MP Renaldo Gouws has been suspended after an old video resurfaced showing him using racist slurs. (@RenaldoGouws/X, formerly Twitter)

In the full version of a controversial video that will now form part of proceedings before the Equality Court against suspended DA MP Renaldo Gouws, the YouTuber-turned-politician uttered the words “kill the f**king k****rs” and compared it to EFF leader Julius Malema singing an anti-apartheid song. Kill the Boer.

He argued that there were double standards.

The DA announced the suspension of Gouws pending the completion of the internal investigation after the party determined that the video was “real and not fake as initially suspected”.