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/ 28 February 2003

State fights eviction order

The fate of 40 000 squatters rests on a government appeal to the Constitutional Court against a high court ruling. The Department of Agriculture and Land Affairs said this week that it would file papers by February 28 to take the case of Modderklip farm, where 40 000 squatters have settled on privately owned land, to the Constitutional Court.