Dali Mpofu might help fight for release of #FeesMustFall activist
Julius Malema said on Sunday that his party had assembled the best legal team to ensure the release of Bonginkosi "Education" Khanyile.
Economic Freedom Fighters president Julius Malema said on Sunday that his party has assembled the best legal team to ensure the release of incarcerated KwaZulu-Natal #FeesMustFall activist Bonginkosi "Education" Khanyile. He said Khanyile will continue the fight for fees must fall when he gets released and that he needed every EFF member’s support for that. Using their parliamentary oversight privilege Malema and the entire EFF top six visited Khanyile‚ a leader of the EFF Student Command‚ in prison on Sunday to show their support for the Durban University of Technology student. The EFF leadership was accompanied by Khanyile’s mother, Phumzile Khathini, and his siblings. Khanyile has spent nearly four months in jail after he was arrested on September 27 last year. He has been denied bail by the Durban Magistrate’s Court and the Pietermaritzburg High Court on three previous occasions and is believed to be the only #FeesMustFall student still languishing in jail. Addressing the a crow...
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