EFF pays up again
Payments linked to court orders
EFF leader Julius Malema and his party paid two of the five court cost orders obtained against them by AfriForum following a second payment of over R100‚000 last week. AfriForum said Malema and the EFF had paid R108‚960 on Thursday after having paid R126‚703 to the civil rights organisation on November 13.
This meant that they had so far paid over R235‚000 of the estimated R550‚000 they owed AfriForum‚ it said. AfriForum CEO Kallie Kriel said: “AfriForum will use Malema and the EFF’s payments to fight attempts to change the country’s constitution to allow for expropriation without compensation.” According to AfriForum‚ the outstanding three cost orders will only be paid later‚ as two must still be taxed and one is subject to an appeal application brought by Malema and the EFF.
“Because of the two payments that AfriForum has already received from Malema and the EFF‚ AfriForum will not go ahead with selling at auction the EFF’s assets that the sheriff has already seized before the legal processes of the three outstanding cost orders have been finalised‚” AfriForum said yesterday. The five cost orders stem from a court case that AfriForum brought against Malema and the EFF to obtain an interdict to prevent them from inciting people to occupy land illegally.
The North Gauteng High Court found in AfriForum’s favour on March 7 2017 and granted the interdict with costs. Malema and the EFF then brought an application to have the interdict set aside‚ which would have been heard on September 12 2017. However‚ the court had to postpone the case after Malema and the EFF submitted their heads of argument in their own case too late. The judge consequently granted a punitive cost order against Malema and the EFF. When the case resumed in February‚ Malema and the EFF’s legal representatives failed to appear‚ and the case was settled in AfriForum’s favour and a further cost order issued against Malema and the EFF.
“The other two cost orders were issued on November 14 2018 in AfriForum’s favour against Malema and the EFF in two separate cases in the North Gauteng High Court‚” said AfriForum.
“The payments that Malema and the EFF made to AfriForum this week [last week] and on November 13 were to settle cost orders that had been issued on September 12 2017 and February 18 2018,” said Kallie. –