Julius Malema and the EFF have suffered a significant legal blow. After a six-year court battle, they lost an attempt to have the Constitutional Court reverse an interdict stopping the party and its leaders from encouraging South Africans to invade unoccupied pieces of land.
The judgment, on Wednesday, comes days after the party failed to bring the country to a standstill with its shutdown on Monday.
On Wednesday, the Constitutional Court, through a written judgment, said after considering the application for leave to appeal directly to it, it had "concluded that the application should be dismissed as it bears no reasonable prospects of success."