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Homelessness in South Africa dates back to the apartheid period. [1] Increasing unemployment, lack of affordable housing , social disintegration, and social and economic policies have all been identified as contributing factors to the issue. [ 2 ]
The respondents based their claim on two constitutional provisions: section 26 of the Constitution, which provides that everyone has the right of access to adequate housing, thereby imposing an obligation on the State to take reasonable legislative and other measures to ensure the progressive realisation of this right within its available resources; and
The City disputed this duty; the respondents argued that its policy was arbitrary and discriminatory. The issue, then, was whether private landowners are obliged to provide alternative accommodation to unlawful occupiers in terms of PIE, [ 26 ] or whether the burden should fall on the city.
South African administrative law is the branch of public law which regulates the legal relations of public authorities, whether with private individuals and organisations or with other public authorities, [1] or better say, in present-day South Africa, which regulates "the activities of bodies that exercise public powers or perform public functions, irrespective of whether those bodies are ...
The courts of South Africa are the civil and criminal courts responsible for the administration of justice in South Africa. They apply the law of South Africa and are established under the Constitution of South Africa or under Acts of the Parliament of South Africa. Despite South Africa's division into nine provinces, the country has a single ...
Anti-homeless architecture is an urban design strategy that is intended to discourage loitering, camping, and sleeping in public. [32] While this policy does not explicitly target homeless people, it restricts the ways in which people can use public spaces, which affects the homeless population. [33] Anti-homeless spikes on a shop ledge.
Painful tragedies such as these are the consequence of decades of laws and policies that have conditioned society to treat homeless people as invisible. But ignoring America’s homelessness ...
The legislation of the former TBVC states (Transkei, Bophuthatswana, Venda and Ciskei) is still valid in the applicable areas, as these states have since been re-incorporated into South Africa. New municipal legislation or "by-laws", enacted since 1993, derive their original power from the Constitution. [24]