According to AfriForum CEO, Kallie Kriel, the civil rights group will institute legal
proceedings, to seize assets belonging to Economic Freedom Fighters, if the party does
not pay outstanding court orders on costs this week.
This statement was made on Sunday 02 June 2019.
AfriForum placed the EFF, and its leader, Julius Malema, on terms to pay a further 109,098
rand 30 cents, before this coming Friday 07 June 2019, for an outstanding court order
on costs.
Should the money not be paid by then, AfriForum would again start a process, to seize assets
belonging to EFF.
This money pertained to the order on costs, which AfriForum obtained against the EFF,
and Malema, on 14 November 2018, after the EFF and Malema’s attempt to obtain an urgent
court order, to prevent AfriForum from removing the property of EFF, and auctioning it off,
failed.
This legal bill had since been taxed, and therefore AfriForum could now enforce the
payment thereof.
The court order was one of five orders, which AfriForum had obtained against Malema and
the EFF, to date.
Of the five costs orders, Malema and the EFF had paid two, amounting to 235,000 rand.
With the payment of this enforceable third order, two more orders would be outstanding.
“The enforcement of the last mentioned, is being held back, because one must still
be taxed, and the EFF appealed against another one.
It is estimated, that the total of the five orders as to costs, amounts to about 550,000
rand,” Kriel said.
Since March 2017, AfriForum has obtained five cost orders against Malema and the EFF, in
five different appearances in the North Gauteng High Court.
It is estimated that the total amount due in terms of the cost orders is around 550
000 rand.
After the EFF and Malema paid in total more than 235,000 rand, the amount owed stands
at an estimated R315 000.
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.
The five cost orders stem from the court case that AfriForum brought against Malema and
the EFF last year, 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 7 March 2017 and granted the interdict
with cost.
Malema and the EFF then brought an application to have the interdict set aside, which would
have been heard on 12 September 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 on 18 February 2018, 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 14 November 2018, in AfriForum’s favour, against
Malema and the EFF in two separate cases in the North Gauteng High Court.
The first order applies to a case of contempt of court brought by AfriForum against Malema
and the EFF, after Malema and the EFF continued to encourage land grabs despite a standing
interdict that, AfriForum had obtained to prohibit them from inciting people to occupy
land.
Malema and the EFF’s legal team failed to submit their heads of argument in time, which
means that the case will have to be heard later.
With this, the EFF and Malema incurred yet another cost order against them.
In the second case, the EFF and Malema attempted to obtain an urgent court order to prevent
AfriForum from removing and selling the EFF’s property at auction to recover legal costs.
The Court ruled that Malema and the EFF’s case was not urgent, and issued another cost
order against Malema and the EFF.
AfriForum intends to use the money, for legal proceedings, to oppose attempts to amend the
country’s Constitution, to legalise expropriation of land without compensation.
This is the statement of Kallie Kriel.
“We will fight Malema and the EFF, with their own money”.
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