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Limits on Withholding Municipal Clearance Certificate.
In City of Cape Town v Real People Housing (77/09) [2009] ZASCA 159 (30 November 2009), the Supreme Court of Appeal clarified the meaning of section 118(1) of ...
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Volume 12, Issue 2, June 2010
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Municipal Duties to Occupiers Facing Evictions From Private Land.
While a number of recent judgments have confirmed the duty of municipalities to ‘meaningfully engage’ with unlawful occupiers before seeking to evict them from ...
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Volume 12, Issue 2, June 2010
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The Toilet War.
The City of Cape Town built unenclosed toilets in Makhaza, an informal settlement in Ward 95 of Khayelitsha. It did so on the understanding that the community ...
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Volume 12, Issue 3, August 2010.
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Trends in Community Protest: From 2007 to 2010.
The research was undertaken by Hirsh Jain, a Harvard Law School visiting fellow at the Community Law Centre. This article summarises Jain’s findings relating ...
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Volume 12, Issue 4, December 2010
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Draft Spatial Planning and Land Use Management Bill.
On 6 May this year, the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform published a Spatial Planning and Land Use Management Bill for public comment, with a ...
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Volume 13, Issue 2, July 2011.
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KZN Planning and Development Act.
The KwaZulu-Natal Planning and Development Act came into operation on 1 May 2010 and governs land use planning and development management. KwaZulu-Natal is ...
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Volume 13, Issue 2, July 2011.
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The Municipality's Role In Implementing The Gatherings Act.
Community protests have become prevalent in South Africa in recent times, with the incidence of violence in these protests rising (see page 10). The ongoing ...
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Volume 13, Issue 3, September 2011.
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Service Delivery Protests: Less Frequent, More Violent.
Community protests have become almost commonplace in South Africa. In 2009 protest activity reached a peak of 17.75 protests every month, on average. This ...
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Volume 13, Issue 3, September 2011.
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Riot Damage: Who Pays?
Protest action has become part of South Africa’s political landscape. The extent to which it is increasingly marked by violence is cause for alarm
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Volume 13, Issue 4, November 2011.
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From the Courts: ‘Municipal planning’ and ‘regional planning and development’ Where does municipal planning end and provincial planning begin?
Lagoon Bay Lifestyle Estate (Pty) Ltd v the Minister of Local Government, Environmental Affairs and Development Planning of the Western Cape and Two Others ...
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Volume 13, Issue 4, November 2011.
