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ANC Youth League president Julius Malema's Equality Court
hearing set down for Monday has been rescheduled to May 20,
Afriforum said.
"There was a direction by the presiding officer of the court and
it was removed from the roll for today," said Afriforum legal
manager Willie Spies.
The delay was due to the unavailability of the different legal
teams and could also be due to Malema's disciplinary hearing with
the ANC which was also set down for Monday.
Spies said that both Malema and the ANC changed their legal
teams.
The Equality Court complaint was lodged by the Afriforum Youth,
who claimed that Malema's singing of the lyrics "shoot the boer"
perpetuated hate speech.
The High Court in Pretoria earlier granted an interdict
preventing Malema from singing the lyrics, pending the start of the
Equality Court hearing.
The ANC disciplinary matter was reportedly about Malema not
heeding party advice to not discuss AWB leader Eugene
Terre'Blanche's murder, which many believed highlighted the dangers
of singing such lyrics, as well as his expression of support for
Zimbabwe's Zanu-PF leader Robert Mugabe.
President Jacob Zuma was attempting to broker a final political
settlement between Zanu-PF and two Movement for Democratic Change
groupings in Zimbabwe.
hearing set down for Monday has been rescheduled to May 20,
Afriforum said.
"There was a direction by the presiding officer of the court and
it was removed from the roll for today," said Afriforum legal
manager Willie Spies.
The delay was due to the unavailability of the different legal
teams and could also be due to Malema's disciplinary hearing with
the ANC which was also set down for Monday.
Spies said that both Malema and the ANC changed their legal
teams.
The Equality Court complaint was lodged by the Afriforum Youth,
who claimed that Malema's singing of the lyrics "shoot the boer"
perpetuated hate speech.
The High Court in Pretoria earlier granted an interdict
preventing Malema from singing the lyrics, pending the start of the
Equality Court hearing.
The ANC disciplinary matter was reportedly about Malema not
heeding party advice to not discuss AWB leader Eugene
Terre'Blanche's murder, which many believed highlighted the dangers
of singing such lyrics, as well as his expression of support for
Zimbabwe's Zanu-PF leader Robert Mugabe.
President Jacob Zuma was attempting to broker a final political
settlement between Zanu-PF and two Movement for Democratic Change
groupings in Zimbabwe.
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I may be the world's biggest cynic...
but I think that all JuJu will get at the hearing will be a symbolic slap on the wrist.
I hope I'm wrong, but I don't think so.
The rumours that he's interfering in the ANCYL election process is much more concerning for me.
I don't think I'll be able to handle this loser in the spotlight for another 4 or 5 years.
but I think that all JuJu will get at the hearing will be a symbolic slap on the wrist.
I hope I'm wrong, but I don't think so.
The rumours that he's interfering in the ANCYL election process is much more concerning for me.
I don't think I'll be able to handle this loser in the spotlight for another 4 or 5 years.
The ANC closed ranks on ANC Youth League president Julius
Malema's reported disciplinary hearing on Monday, refusing to
confirm or deny that it was taking place.
Weekend reports quoted national executive committee member Derek
Hanekom, as saying that Malema had been served notice of the
hearing for Monday, and was expected to attend.
However, party spokesman Brian Sokutu said that nothing would be
said about the "matter" -- not even to say that Hanekom had been
inaccurately quoted on the existence of the hearing.
If necessary a statement would be issued at a later date.
"We're not going to be commenting any further on this matter. It
is an internal ANC matter, resolved within the structures of the
ANC."
While the Independent Online reported at noon the disciplinary
proceedings had started, League spokesman Floyd Shivambu insisted
that he knew nothing about reports that Malema would have to answer
to party elders on some of his recent public utterances.
These included adapting an anti-apartheid song, to sing the
lyrics "shoot the boer", which has frightened farmers and
Afrikaners, who feel they are being targeted; shouting at a BBC
journalist that he was a "bastard" and should leave a press
conference, and publicly supporting Zanu-PF during delicate
political settlement talks between the party and Movement for
Democratic Change formations in Zimbabwe.
Shivambu said: "What are you talking about? Where do you get all
these things?" when asked to clarify conflicting reports on
Malema's attendance.
He claimed to know nothing about the matter, and said he had not
even read newspaper reports on it.
He said he did not even read newspapers, when asked if Hanekom's
quotes were possibly inaccurate.
He referred all queries to Hanekom, who was not immediately
available for comment but who told the IOL: "The hearing is
scheduled to take place (Monday), as I have consistently said, and
I don't have any further comment."
Shivambu said the three earlier statements the league sent, in
his name, reacting to weekend reports on its financial arm,
Lembede, and lobbying for provincial chairman posts, were based on
news clippings sent to him, and maintained that he did not read
newspapers and so did not know what journalists were talking about
over the Malema meeting.
"I am not a white newspaper reading person," he said, before
cutting the call.
Malema's reported disciplinary hearing on Monday, refusing to
confirm or deny that it was taking place.
Weekend reports quoted national executive committee member Derek
Hanekom, as saying that Malema had been served notice of the
hearing for Monday, and was expected to attend.
However, party spokesman Brian Sokutu said that nothing would be
said about the "matter" -- not even to say that Hanekom had been
inaccurately quoted on the existence of the hearing.
If necessary a statement would be issued at a later date.
"We're not going to be commenting any further on this matter. It
is an internal ANC matter, resolved within the structures of the
ANC."
While the Independent Online reported at noon the disciplinary
proceedings had started, League spokesman Floyd Shivambu insisted
that he knew nothing about reports that Malema would have to answer
to party elders on some of his recent public utterances.
These included adapting an anti-apartheid song, to sing the
lyrics "shoot the boer", which has frightened farmers and
Afrikaners, who feel they are being targeted; shouting at a BBC
journalist that he was a "bastard" and should leave a press
conference, and publicly supporting Zanu-PF during delicate
political settlement talks between the party and Movement for
Democratic Change formations in Zimbabwe.
Shivambu said: "What are you talking about? Where do you get all
these things?" when asked to clarify conflicting reports on
Malema's attendance.
He claimed to know nothing about the matter, and said he had not
even read newspaper reports on it.
He said he did not even read newspapers, when asked if Hanekom's
quotes were possibly inaccurate.
He referred all queries to Hanekom, who was not immediately
available for comment but who told the IOL: "The hearing is
scheduled to take place (Monday), as I have consistently said, and
I don't have any further comment."
Shivambu said the three earlier statements the league sent, in
his name, reacting to weekend reports on its financial arm,
Lembede, and lobbying for provincial chairman posts, were based on
news clippings sent to him, and maintained that he did not read
newspapers and so did not know what journalists were talking about
over the Malema meeting.
"I am not a white newspaper reading person," he said, before
cutting the call.