Municipal officials now face the very real threat of being fined or imprisoned over evictions following a judgment by acting judge Nigel Hollis.
Residents of a settlement in Marlboro set out to have their community formally recognised. Instead, their homes were razed to the ground by the JMPD.
The Constitutional Court is to hand down its ruling on extending the eviction deadline of occupiers of a building on Saratoga Avenue on Thursday.
Evicted residents say they are being treated as vagrants while the city struggles for answers, writes Kwanele Sosibo.
Pennyville residents staged a demonstration outside Absa buildings in the Jo’burg CBD to hand over a memorandum in protest against their eviction.
People illegally occupying an inner-city building were evicted in an unconstitutional Red Ants operation, leaving them homeless on the streets of Jo’burg.
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/ 15 September 2011
Ekurhuleni has defended its attempt to remove residents from the Bapsfontein informal settlement without a court order, claiming it was an evacuation.
The threat of mass evictions has been lifted from residents of Cape Town’s Joe Slovo informal settlement.
A Gauteng community’s appeal to the Constitutional Court has turned the spotlight on the need for municipalities to consult when evicting squatters.
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/ 28 October 2010
Zimbabwe on Thursday denied claims that the government was planning mass evictions from a settlement outside the capital, Harare.
Evicted shack dwellers from Gauteng and Ekurhuleni — accused of illegally occupying council land — are now seeking legal recourse.
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/ 14 September 2009
Angola is evicting whole communities to meet the
president’s promise to build a million new homes
by 2012, writes Niren Tolsi
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/ 9 September 2009
The two Cope MPs threatened with eviction from their parliamentary houses on Wednesday agreed to move to other official dwellings.
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/ 8 September 2009
An application for the eviction of two Cope members of Parliament was put on hold on Tuesday while their legal teams sought to negotiate a settlement.
The Constitutional Court on Wednesday ruled that about 20 000 residents in the Joe Slovo informal settlement must be evicted.
More than six million people have been forcibly removed from their land and homes in recent years in several African countries.
A camp to which 700 families are to be relocated is fraught with hazards, writes Niren Tolsi.
A group of Jo’burg flat dwellers will hear on Thursday whether they have succeeded in their court challenge against a decision to evict them.
”Some – have tried to reintegrate on more than one occasion,” she says. ”Because they fear for their safety they’re not going back.”
City of Tshwane officials burnt shacks at Klerksoord refugee camp in Akasia, north of Pretoria, on Monday after evicting more than 300 people.
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/ 4 December 2008
There were hugs and smiles in the Constitutional Court on Thursday when the court suspended evictions from a Johannesburg building.
The relocation of people from two ”bad” inner-city buildings shows what is possible when the rights of the poor are considered, Cals says.
Irene Grootboom was the woman whose name became known around the world for enforcing the state’s obligation to respect socio-economic rights.
Residents of two flat complexes in Pretoria obtained an urgent interdict on Tuesday to stop their eviction following a day of violence and death.
Six people have died in a fire that broke out in the Kruger Park flats in Pretoria. The fire was allegedly started to protest against evictions.
Thousands of tenants may have to be evacuated from a landmark flatlands complex in Pretoria that has fallen on hard times.