Julius Malema appeared for less than five minutes in the Newcastle Magistrate’s Court this morning on a charge of charges of contravening the 1956 Riotous Assembles Act. The case will be heard again on Thursday but only his legal representative will attend, the court heard
The charges date back to June 2016 when the EFF leader urged supporters in Newcastle to invade land ‘as whites had no claim to South Africa’. He first appeared in the Newcastle Court in November last year and later told supporters that his only crime ‘was to encourage people to occupy the land, adding that there was nothing wrong with this as people now had homes.’
He added he would continue to rally people to occupy the land.
“How can we be charged with trespassing on our land because this property belongs to us because the Freedom Charter states that ‘The Land Belongs to those Who worked on it, you are the workers of this land, therefore it belongs to you. The Freedom Charter is a legal document in South Africa.”

Malema will appear again on September 1.