Malema and his co-accused will hear their fate at the party's Luthuli House headquarters in Johannesburg.

Closing arguments in the hearing, which started at the end of August, ended late on Sunday night.

Malema's first appearance before the ANC disciplinary committee took place at Luthuli House. It had to be moved after violence erupted in the Johannesburg CBD. Youth league members threw bricks and stones at police and the media and burnt T-shirts with the face of President Jacob Zuma printed on them.

The ANC has charged Malema with bringing the party into disrepute and sowing division within party ranks. Earlier this year, he said the ANCYL would send a team to Botswana to consolidate local opposition parties and help bring about regime change in that country. Malema subsequently apologised for the remarks.

Also charged with Malema and Shivambu were league deputy president Ronald Lamola, treasurer general Pule Mabe, secretary general Sindiso Magaqa and deputy secretary general Kenetswe Mosenogi.

Malema was found guilty of criticising Zuma in another ANC disciplinary hearing last year. He faced possible expulsion from the party if found guilty again.

On Tuesday, Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe said the ruling party only expelled members it believed were beyond rehabilitation.

"The approach of the ANC is that it abandons only the most incorrigible," Motlanthe told parliament's Press Gallery Association.

"It has the confidence that it can correct its members."