South Africa: Evicted Waste Pickers Win in Court

Company must rebuild homes of the"Airfield Community" on land near Waterkloof base

"I cannot divorce the precarious socio-economic circumstances of the applicants from my consideration of urgency," said the judge. When they asked for a court order, they were told the owner did not need one"to remove people from his own property". On 17 January, they were again told to go. When they refused, a bulldozer arrived and their shelters were demolished and taken away on trucks along with their possessions.

Judge Millar said,"I cannot divorce the precarious socio-economic circumstances of the applicants from my consideration of urgency ... The loss of a home is an unquestionable urgent matter."

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