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This phenomenon also occurred in Southern Rhodesia and Kenya; by the time of World War I, there were over one million such squatters in South Africa. [90] Under apartheid, bantustans were created as enclaves for specific ethnic groups. In the 1970s, a squatted zone called Kromdraai formed at Thaba 'Nchu in what was then the Bophuthatswana ...
[3]: 8, 18 She notes that alongside the squatting system there was also illegal squatting and a system in which labourers paid the settlers to use their land; in 1910, there were 20,000 Kikuyu farmers of the latter type. During World War I, the labourers maintained the farms on behalf of the settlers.
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Squatting in Zimbabwe is the settlement of land or buildings without the permission of the owner. Squatting began under colonialism. After Zimbabwe was created in 1980, peasant farmers and squatters disputed the distribution of land. Informal settlements have developed on the periphery of cities such as Chitungwiza and the capital Harare.
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Squatting in Nigeria refers to a person who is not the owner, taking possession of land or an empty house. Squatters migrate from the countryside to informal settlements in cities such as Abuja, Port Harcourt and in particular Lagos. Lagos had a population of over 14 million people in 2019 and many slums, including Makoko.
Another factor causing squatting has been displacement, since during the Algerian War of 1954 until 1962 up to 2.5 million people were forcibly resettled. [2] The Directorate for Planning and Construction (DUC) announced in 2007 that there were 3,612 buildings in more than 104 informal settlements across the province of Tizi Ouzou .
Squatting in Liberia is one of three ways to access land, the other two being ownership by deed or customary ownership. The informal settlement of West Point was founded in the capital Monrovia in the 1950s and is estimated to house between 29,500 and 75,000 people.