Julius Malema EFF Legal cost

Julius Malema and EFF lost hundreds of thousands in court battles against AfriForum. Photo: EFF / Twitter

Pay back the money: This is how much Julius Malema paid AfriForum

Julius Malema and EFF lost hundreds of thousands in court battles against AfriForum.

Julius Malema EFF Legal cost

Julius Malema and EFF lost hundreds of thousands in court battles against AfriForum. Photo: EFF / Twitter

The Economic Freedom Front (EFF) and its President Julius Malema lost hundreds of thousands of rands over the years after they lost yet another legal battle against the civil rights group AfriForum with cost.

In 2018 and 2019 Malema and the EFF paid Afriforum legal cost of R344 762.86 in total.

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In the latest battle The Northern Gauteng High Court, Pretoria, dismissed Malema and the EFF’s a leave to appeal land invasion case and ordered them to pay AfriForum’s legal cost, on Tuesday 2023.

Ernst van Zyl, Campaign Officer for Strategy and Content at AfriForum, says Justice P.M. Mabuse reinforced and relied on an earlier Constitutional Court judgment that emphasised the unconstitutionality of incitement to trespass on private property and the serious criminal nature of any incitement to endanger property, owners, or the right to personal property.

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According to Van Zyl, Malema and the EFF was ordered to pay the civil rights group the sum of R102 092.30.

The EFF President’s leave to appeal was against an interdict AfriForum acquired in 2017, which prohibited Malema and the EFF from inciting people to trespass on private property and occupy it illegally.

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“This judgment is a major win for private property rights and a big blow to those who wish to incite criminality, violence, or lawlessness.”

“AfriForum welcomes Judge Mabuse’s judgment which adds the necessary emphasis on the serious criminal nature of inciting people to trespass on and illegally occupy the private property.”

Ernst Van Zyl

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Since March 2017, AfriForum has obtained five cost orders against Malema and the EFF in five different appearances.

THIS IS HOW MUCH JULIUS MALEMA PAID AFRIFORUM

Van Zyl said on 13 November 2018 Julius paid R126 703.59. On 10 January 2019 the EFF paid R108 960.79 into AfriForum’s coffers.

The fighters paid another R109 098.30 on 5 June 2019. The total amount the EFF spend on AfriForum thus far comes to R344 762.86

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Van Zyl said they had applied these funds to some of AfriForum’s projects.

“We still have to decide what would be the best use of this new amount they have to pay. “We can assure our members and the public that it will go towards a good cause.”

Ernst van Zyl

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