Johannesburg - EFF leader Julius Malema has effectively been accused of using the same stalling tactics as former president Jacob Zuma in his bid to evade criminal charges for inciting his party’s followers to occupy vacant land.
Justice and Correctional Services Minister Ronald Lamola and National Director of Public Prosecutions Shamila Batohi have told the Constitutional Court that Malema and the EFF were pre-empting the determinations of the trial court. “This court, noting the lengthy delays in the commencement of especially high-profile criminal trials, has held that dilatory constitutional applications in criminal matters are to be discouraged.
“Deploring the ‘Stalingrad defence’, as deployed by a prominent accused, this court observed that trials should start ‘sooner rather than later’,” read heads of argument by Lamola and Batohi’s counsel, Hilton Epstein, SC, Michael Osborne and Palesa Khoza, filed in the Constitutional Court last month.
Lamola and Batohi were referring to the fraud and corruption charges Zuma faces and his bid to delay having his day in court, as well as controversial businessman Dave King’s attempts to evade 322 counts of fraud, tax and exchange control regulations, money- laundering and racketeering.
He is indeed a 'rabble rouser' which is why he is so popular. Very scary. However he does speak his mind against a lot of decisions that the rest of the country leaders are too scared to say. He holds the ANC accountable which no one else does
That's his strength. Like Hitler he is able to rouse emotion and total emotional hysteria. He is a man to be feared if this country is to survive
PravinMustGo PravinMustFall
These white Senior counsels seem to be fighting their own battles of land ownership privilege but they are hiding behind robes & legalies
Malema is An ANC puppet.
All this to divert attention away from VBS
Yoh! Here we are going back to the apartheid state. The thinking by our justice department leaders towards the EFFSouthAfrica leader is similar to that used by apartheid leaders.
Me waiting patiently for y’all to describe Ramaphosa & Pravin
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