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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