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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
S v Twala [1999] ZACC 18: 5 Brummer v Gorfil Brothers Investments [2000] ZACC 3: 6 S v Manamela [2000] ZACC 5: Co-written with Madala and Sachs. 7 Government v Grootboom [2000] ZACC 19: 8 Independent Electoral Commission v Langeberg Municipality [2001] ZACC 23: 9 S v Price [2001] ZACC 1: 10 De Beer v North-Central Local Council and South ...
Yacoob was born on 3 March 1948 in Durban in the former Natal Province. [1] His father was a Muslim cleric and he was classified as Indian under apartheid. [2] [3] At the age of 16 months, he became blind due to meningitis, [4] and from 1956 to 1966, he attended the Arthur Blaxall School for the Blind in Durban.
Irene Grootboom (c. 1969 – 2008) was a South African housing rights activist best known for her victory before the Constitutional Court in 2000. [1] The Court found that the government had not met its obligation to provide adequate alternative housing for the residents of Kraaifontein ’s Wallacedene informal settlement .
Judges Priya Pillai, left, Zak Yacoob, center, and Stephen Rapp, right, listen to the first witness of the 'people's tribunal' where prosecutors symbolically put Russian President Vladimir Putin ...
Residents of Joe Slovo Community, Western Cape v Thubelisha Homes and Others (Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions and Another, Amici Curiae) [1] is an important case in South African property law, heard by the Constitutional Court [2] on August 21, 2008, with judgment handed down on June 10.
Grootboom was a member of the African National Congress (ANC) until 1995 when he became a member of the Democratic Party (DP). The DP became the Democratic Alliance (DA) in 2000. [2] Grootboom briefly left politics to finish his studies and achieved an MEd in Psychology from the University of Port Elizabeth. He was also a Ford Fellow at the ...
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