Criminalising land grabs is racist, says Malema

The EFF want trespassing to be decriminalised – and the removal of alleged illegal land occupiers to first be sanctioned by the courts, not immediately carried out by the police.

EFF leader Julius Malema says President Cyril Ramaphosa has lost the plot in the manner he presides over the country. File photo.
EFF leader Julius Malema says President Cyril Ramaphosa has lost the plot in the manner he presides over the country. File photo. (ALON SKUY/THE TIMES)

The EFF want trespassing to be decriminalised – and the removal of alleged illegal land occupiers to first be sanctioned by the courts, not immediately carried out by the police.

“It is wrong to criminalise land occupation. It is also racist to do so, because the majority of occupiers are black,” the party’s advocate Tembeka Ngcukaitobi told the Pretoria High Court on Wednesday.

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