eNCA | LIVE VIDEO: Malema on land expropriation
- Editor’s note: Livestream above courtesy DStv 403.
GEORGE – Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema is to address a rally on land expropriation on Friday afternoon in George, Western Cape.
CIC @Julius_S_Malema will address the EFF #LandExpropriationRally under the following details:
Date: 06 April, 2018
Venue: Thembalethu Stadium, George
Time; 14h00 pic.twitter.com/FwieBjPwTq— #RIPWinnieMandela (@EFFSouthAfrica) March 29, 2018
Fighters coming in numbers, making their way into the Thembalethu Stadium, George for the #LandExpropriationRally #Izwelethu #Asijiki pic.twitter.com/s8diAj1eAy
— #RIPWinnieMandela (@EFFSouthAfrica) April 6, 2018
Earlier, a case in which he is accused of contravening the Riotous Assemblies Act by urging his supporters to invade land was postponed in the Mangaung Regional Court in Free State.
In June 2016 he told supporters to occupy land because it was taken from black people by force.
Earlier in the week, Malema failed to appear in the Newcastle Magistrate’s Court on similar charges. He was represented by his legal team and that case was postponed again.
The EFF has been alleged to have been behind a number of land grabs in the recent weeks, with community members saying their local EFF leaders had told them to seize unoccupied land.
The ANC adopted a resolution last year that land should be appropriated without compensation, sparking a land-reform debate nationally.
The public will be able to weigh in on the parliamentary review of section 25 of the Constitution, dealing with land, between May and June and give their input on the government’s plan to expropriate land without compensation.
In a statement, Parliament said its joint constitutional review committee would this month publish an advertisement for oral and written submissions.
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