AfriForum queries special treatment of Malema
6 September 2019
AfriForum will be closely watching the manner in which the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) handles the charge that was laid against Julius Malema, Leader of the EFF. The NPA indicated that they already made a decision surrounding the prosecution of Malema, but that they refuse to make their decision known.
This follows after AfriForum laid charges against Malema after he fired off shots with an object resembling an assault rifle during the EFF’s five-year festivities in 2018. The EFF’s spokespersons denied that the object was a real firearm and later alleged that it was crackers that exploded on the rhythm of the object.
The NPA and SAPS are hesitating to provide AfriForum, as the complainant in this case, with proper feedback. It is regrettable that the prosecuting authorities are releasing a progress report to the media, but not to the complainant. In the case of AfriForum’s telephonic enquiries indeed being answered, it is being kept in the dark.
After AfriForum’s Private Prosecution Unit earlier this year indicated at a media conference that it intends to prepare a court application to force the NPA to make a decision regarding the prosecution of Malema, the NPA enthusiastically appeared to make a decision whether to prosecute Malema or not.