Riotous assemblies act
EFF to introduce Parliamentary process to revoke Riotous Assemblies Act
The EFF scored a victory in the Constitutional Court on Friday after challenging the constitutionality of an aspect of the Riotous Assemblies Act.
The party says it will approach the Constitutional Court following the Pretoria High Court’s dismissal of the EFF’s application to have the Riotous Assemblies Act repealed in its entirety.
The comments come at the back of a Pretoria High Court ruling earlier that dismissed the EFF’s application to have the act declared unconstitutional.
EFF leader Julius Malema said the party would approach the Constitutional Court after their matter to declare Riotous Assemblies Act unconstitutional was dismissed in the Pretoria High Court.
This follows the party’s failed bid in the Pretoria High Court on Thursday to have the Assemblies, as well as the Trespassing Act, declared unconstitutional.
EFF leader Julius Malema says the party will approach the Constitutional Court after the party's matter to declare Riotous Assemblies Act unconstitutional was dismissed in the Pretoria High Court.
The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) says it’s in full support of people living in informal settlements moving into vacant unoccupied land for residential purposes.
The party says that the Riotous Assemblies and Trespass Acts are laws which were initially designed by the apartheid government to criminalise black people.
While in court to challenge the Riotous Assemblies Act, EFF deputy leader Floyd Shivambu said that they will be challenging the Trespass Act as well.
Representatives and supporters of EFF leader Julius Malema were in the Pretoria High Court as their leader challenged the constitutionality of the Riotous Assemblies Act.
The EFF has criticised the validity of the Riotous Assemblies Act as well as the Trespass Act.
These were comments made by the State in arguments against Julius Malema in the case against him at the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria on Wednesday afternoon.
EFF leader Julius Malema is challenging the constitutionality of the Act, saying the state is using apartheid-era legislation to prosecute him.
Malema argues that the apartheid era legislation is being used to persecute him and the law should not exist in the democratic dispensation.
EFF leader Julius Malema faces criminal charges for calling for land grabs which contravenes the Riotous Assemblies Act.
The party argues that the apartheid-era piece of legislation is unconstitutional and should be repealed. The parties will meet with the deputy judge president to have a special hearing date set down.
EFF leader Julius Malema is set to appear before the Bloemfontein Magistrates Court on Monday.
The former president says one law that should have been scrapped is the Riotous Assemblies Act that was promulgated in 1956.