The right to protest peacefully is too crucial to democratic engagement to blunt it with an interdict that preemptively assumes that illegality will definitely accompany the march.
A court must be very careful not to undercut the right to assemble and march on such a speculative basis about how the march will play out. Besides, as the EFF papers say, the police do not need court orders to stop or arrest someone destroying property. Other remedies flow from the Regulation of Gatherings Act and also within delict.
To be clear, the DA framed the interdict application in terms of illegal activities that are allegedly planned, such as the incitement of violence or illegal blockages of roads. So it might claim to respect the general right to a peaceful march. However, the details of the application are a practical attempt to prevent Monday from occurring, peacefully or otherwise.
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