High court declares the City of Cape Town’s lockdown evictions illegal

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The South African Human Rights Commission and housing activists brought — and won — an application to halt lockdown demolitions of what the City of Cape Town said were unoccupied dwellings.

Further down in the judgment, the court was scathing of the City in how it decided whether a dwelling was unoccupied.

This is in contrast to the City claiming on several occasions that land occupations are being driven by political characters. The court has also declared that although confiscated possessions of evicted people must be returned to them, compensation for the loss of personal possessions should also be paid to individuals who have suffered.

 

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