Malema’s land grab case postponed until September
Lawyers of the EFF’s Commander in Chief, appeared on his behalf at the Newcastle Magistrate’s Court on Monday (July 8), in connection with remarks he reportedly made at a party rally in Newcastle in June 2016.
Julius Malema’s case, for allegedly contravening the Riotous Assemblies Act, has been postponed to September 9.
Lawyers of the EFF’s Commander in Chief, appeared on his behalf at the Newcastle Magistrate’s Court on Monday (July 8), in connection with remarks he reportedly made at a party rally in Newcastle in June 2016.
In response, Malema filed an application with the Pretoria High Court in December, challenging the constitutionality of the laws used to charge him.
EFF members claimed it was an ‘Apartheid-era law’.
The application has since been struck off.
In June 2016, Malema reportedly urged local supporters outside the Newcastle Magistrate’s Court, to invade land which ‘whites had no claim to’ in South Africa.
In November that year, following an appearance in the same court, Malema is said to have again urged supporters to “occupy the land, because they have failed to give you the land”.
Malema was charged for the same offence in Bloemfontein, the Free State, for similar remarks he allegedly made in 2014 at the EFF’s elective conference in Bloemfontein: “We’re going to occupy the unoccupied land because we need land. For us to eat‚ we must have the land. For us to work‚ we must have the land.”
The EFF is expected to approach the Constitutional Court next, to have the Act declared unconstitutional.
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