Elderly white couple forced to hand over their Sweet Homes smallholdings site near Cape Town to 900 illegal squatters
2010-12-06 CAPE TOWN. The municipality’s land-occupation department, Steve Hayward, has told the news media that the unnamed, elderly white owners of the 75,000-square metres Sweet Homes smallholdings near Mitchell’s Plain have been forced to relinquish their property-rights after a twenty-year legal battle to shift the 900 squatters living there. He said the property now is worth very little. He said the Pretoria-based legal owners would be faced with ‘enormous legal costs’ if they were to push for their property-rights in law-courts. “It could take years and the 1998 Act against the illegal occupation of land makes it very clear that the owners of land are responsible when it comes to illegal occupations of their land’. http://www.nuus24.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Paartjie-se-Kaapse-huis-nou-plakkers-sn-20101206
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