Julius Malema and the EFF, last week, made a second payment in two months of more than
R100 000 to the civil rights organization, AfriForum, to pay two of the five cost orders,
that AfriForum had obtained against them in the courts.
The second and latest payment was made on Thursday 10 January 2019, and it amounted
to R108 960.79.
The amount that AfriForum received from Julius Malema and the EFF on 13 November 2018, amounted
to R126 703.59.
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 R550
000.
After the EFF and Malema paid in total more than R235 000, 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.
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, which the sheriff
has already seized, before the legal processes of the three outstanding cost orders have
been finalised.
Kallie Kriel, CEO of AfriForum, welcomes the further payment by Malema and the EFF.
Kallie Kriel indicated that, AfriForum will use Malema and the EFF�s payments in our
court battles, to fight attempts to change the country�s Constitution to allow for
expropriation of land without compensation.
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 Northern 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.
The payments that Malema and the EFF made to AfriForum last week, and on 13 November
2018, were to settle cost orders that had been issued on 12 September 2017 and 18 February
2018, respectively.
Malema and the EFF are currently appealing the interdict that AfriForum obtained against
them on 7 March 2017, while the two cost orders of 14 November 2018 must still be assessed.
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