The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema remains defiant in his call to party supporters to occupy unused land.
Malema says land expropriation without compensation will go ahead in South Africa as it is the right of all the African people.
He was addressing a rally in Thembalethu, in George in the Southern Cape on Friday. Malema says the majority of white South Africans own over 70 percent of land in the country while black people own four percent.
Earlier today, Malema appeared briefly in the Bloemfontein Regional Court on charges of contravening the Riotous Assemblies Act. His case has been postponed to July to allow the high court in Pretoria to rule on the constitutionality of the Act.
“There is no person with the land who is unemployed. There’s no person with the land who wants an RDP house, doing what with an RDP house. Because you’ve got the land you work on it, you build yourself a beautiful house which will accommodate all our many children. Because we’ve got many children,” Malema said.
The case has been postponed to July the 27th in the Bloemfontein Regional Court. This is to allow the High Court to rule on the constitutionality of the Riotous Assemblies Act which Malema is challenging.
In December 2014, Malema allegedly told his supporters to occupy land. He faces similar charges in Newcastle in KwaZulu-Natal.
The Pretoria High Court will deliver the verdict on the 23rd of this month.
Malema says the party’s call is justified.
“We are not removing anyone by force we’re not killing anyone. We’re not committing genocide. What we are doing is to occupy the unoccupied land as a demonstration of our seriousness to return the land into the hands of the masses of our people, for that I’m prepared to go to prison,” says Malema.
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