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Property Rights In South Africa

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KZN Public Works and Infrastructure MEC Martin Meyer and eThekwini Metro Mayor Cyril Xaba briefed the media on the city’s plans for bad buildings. (Lyse Comins/M&G)
ETHEKWINI METRO BAD BUILDINGS

Property rights will be upheld in KwaZulu-Natal, MEC Martin Meyer says

As the biggest land owner in the province, Meyer’s public works and infrastructure department will be releasing 133 properties on public tender

  • Lyse Comins
4 min read
As squatting rates rise, the incentive to develop property and rent it out plummets. (File photo by ANNA ZIEMINSKI / AFP)
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Do squatters have more rights than property owners in South Africa?

Victims should not need to pay legal fees and wait an inordinate amount of time just to kick what amounts to a criminal trespasser from their land

  • Nicholas Woode-Smith
6 min read