Julius Malema summonsed to appear in court using apartheid-era legislation
EFF leader Julius Malema has been summonsed to appear in court for comments he made about land occupation on two occasions in 2014. Malema was being charged on claims that he "incited, instigated, commanded or procured his Economic Freedom Fighters followers to commit a crime, to wit trespass ... by illegally occupying any vacant land wherever they found some", according to the summons. A small group of police officers, in plain clothing, arrived at the EFF’s headquarters in Johannesburg on Thursday, to hand over the summons, just after Malema had conducted an unrelated media briefing. Towards the end of the briefing, Malema said he had just been informed by EFF secretary-general Godrich Gardee, that the police had arrived to serve a summons on him. According to the summons, Malema was being charged with contravening the Riotous Assemblies Act of 1956 and Trespass Act of 1959. EFF deputy president Floyd Shivambu accused the state of using old apartheid-style tactics against Malema f...
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