THE EFF STATEMENT ON THE COURT VERDICT IN THE EFF VS WITS COURT CASE
27 August 2015
The Economic Freedom Fighters welcomes ruling of the court that the suspension of students who are members of the EFF branch at Wits University be lifted. We also note that the only reason the judge, according to his statement, could not rule in our favour that our candidates be allowed back in the election process is because he felt they would have been disadvantaged for the loss of time caused by these senseless sanctions by the Vice-Chancellor Adam Habib.
The EFF is vexed by the irresponsible conduct of the Vice Chancellor Adam Habib in the manner he has prejudiced the EFF in the political life of Wits. This man clearly had the intention of sidelining the EFF in the electoral process currently under way.
To this end he has achieved his objective. He has declared himself an enemy of democracy and declared war on the EFF even when we were reaching out to him. His conduct is no different from that of Blade Nzimande who has called for the EFF to be killed. He has also declared himself an enemy of the rights of students to learn. As the judge’s verdict stipulates, the right to learn was trampled on because of his insane and prejudicial behaviour.
On top of that, he goes and solicits the services of the most expensive legal team to defend this criminal attitude against poor black students. He has tarnished the name of Wits which has never had this kind of unfree and unfair electoral history since democracy. We are glad that other academics have distanced themselves from his criminal behaviour. Adam is not a good leader. He is has put the name of Wits University into disrepute and must be removed. The EFF will make sure of it.