South African politician Julius Malema has once again landed in legal trouble, this time after a court ruled that fiery remarks he made at a 2022 rally amounted to hate speech.

The Equality Court on Wednesday declared Malema guilty over racially charged comments delivered during a political gathering where he urged supporters to embrace violence as part of revolutionary struggle.

“No white man is going to beat me up and (I) call myself a revolutionary the following day,” Malema told the crowd. “You must never be scared to kill. A revolution demands that at some point there must be killing because the killing is part of a revolutionary act.”

This is not Malema’s first encounter with the courts over controversial speech. He was previously convicted for leading the apartheid-era chant “shoot the boer,” though that ruling was later overturned. The chant, historically aimed at South Africa’s white Afrikaner farmers, has long stirred fierce debate about race and violence in the country.