EFF pays visit to jailed #FeesMustFall activist

ECONOMIC Freedom Fighters president Julius Malema said yesterday his party had assembled the best legal team to ensure the release of incarcerated KwaZulu-Natal #FeesMustFall activist Bonginkosi “Education” Khanyile.

Malema said Khanyile would continue the fight for the #FeesMustFall campaign when he gets released and that he needed every EFF member’s support.

Using their parliamentary oversight privilege, Malema and the entire top six of the EFF visited Khanyile‚ a leader of the EFF Student Command‚ in Durban’s Westville Prison yesterday to show their full and continued support for the Durban University of Technology student.

The EFF leadership was accompanied by Khanyile’s mother, Phumzile Khathini, and Khanyile’s siblings.

Khanyile has spent almost four months in jail after he was arrested in 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.

EFF lawyer Tembeka Ngcukaitobi represented Khanyile in his last bail bid last month.

He and EFF national chair Dali Mpofu are believed to be the lawyers likely to help release Khanyile.

Khanyile‚ a final-year Durban University of Technology public administration student and EFF representative‚ is facing eight charges, including public violence‚ illegal gathering and inciting violence.

Part of what he has been denied bail for include the court assertion that he committed a similar offence while he was out on bail for charges levelled against him in February.

Malema has countered this saying Khanyile is no flight risk, he cannot threaten witnesses because they are all police officers‚ and there was no ruling by the court that he could not participate in a gathering. — TMG Digital