South African -- Sending
in the police to deal with illegal land grabs will work in the favour of the
Economic Freedom Fighters, the party's leader Julius Malema said.
"Sending in police works very well in favour of the
EFF because you [are] going to shoot innocent people who are not part of the
struggle and the next thing you have mobilised them into the EFF, and come 2016
communities are angry and they will reject you during elections," he told
Sapa during an interview.
"Those metro police are going to get tired at some point and they going to refuse attending to those things. Sooner or later they going to realise this is not a criminal matter, it's a political matter."
The comments come in the wake of the party's Gauteng branch saying that it will begin its programme to occupy vacant land this year.
The party's provincial spokesperson Ntobeng Ntobeng said that the land occupation programme would help dispossessed communities to take ownership of vacant land.
Tshwane mayor Kgosientso Ramokgopa said that the EFF was spreading anarchy in the city and to this effect the city had acquired "a blanket court interdict" against land invasions.
Malema though has warned Ramokgopa to brace for land grab chaos.
That one [Ramokgapo] must just ready himself because he is going to be too busy in the Tshwane area.
"Yesterday... alone two lands were occupied [and] he sent police."
"Sending in police works very well in favour of the
EFF because you [are] going to shoot innocent people who are not part of the
struggle and the next thing you have mobilised them into the EFF, and come 2016
communities are angry and they will reject you during elections," he told
Sapa during an interview."Those metro police are going to get tired at some point and they going to refuse attending to those things. Sooner or later they going to realise this is not a criminal matter, it's a political matter."
The comments come in the wake of the party's Gauteng branch saying that it will begin its programme to occupy vacant land this year.
The party's provincial spokesperson Ntobeng Ntobeng said that the land occupation programme would help dispossessed communities to take ownership of vacant land.
Tshwane mayor Kgosientso Ramokgopa said that the EFF was spreading anarchy in the city and to this effect the city had acquired "a blanket court interdict" against land invasions.
Malema though has warned Ramokgopa to brace for land grab chaos.
That one [Ramokgapo] must just ready himself because he is going to be too busy in the Tshwane area.
"Yesterday... alone two lands were occupied [and] he sent police."
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