ConCourt throws out EFF’s ‘land grab’ application
The Economic Freedom Fighters have lost a Constitutional Court bid to dismiss an interdict preventing it from inciting illegal land invasions.
AfriForum was granted the interdict by the High Court in Pretoria in March 2017.
It prevents party leader Julius Malema and the EFF from encouraging people to unlawfully occupy land.
Utterances Malema made on at least two of the occasions have landed him in court in Newcastle and Bloemfontein.
In 2014, Malema told supporters in the Free State to claim any piece of unoccupied land that they desired and repeated the call to a crowd in Newcastle two years later.
The red berets went to the apex court, seeking to have AfriForum's interdict torn up, but the court on Thursday refused their leave to appeal.
AfriForum's Ernst van Zyl says this signifies an end to lawlessness.
"The EFF’s hubris, desire to incite lawlessness and their love of frivolous court battles has come at a high price for them in the end. The time for games is now over. The EFF will now have to pay the money they owe AfriForum.
"But why is the EFF so determined to be able to incite lawlessness and criminality? Maybe because these defeats to AfriForum have thrown a serious spanner into the works for what they had planned."
