Tag: Commonage

Land dispossession: When is restitution appropriate

by GilesFiles | Dec 11, 2017 | 2017, 2017, Bill of Rights, ConCourt judges, Constitutional Court, Courts, Edwin Cameron, Judges, Landmark judgments | 0 |

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Reclaiming rights to communal land

by GilesFiles | Dec 13, 2016 | 2016, Statutes (LRL 2)-work, Supreme Court of Appeal | 0 |

With Cachalia JA dissenting forcibly, a majority of the SCA disallowed an appeal by 16 landowners against an order of the Land Claims Court (the LCC). It concerned a dispute over land rights in respect of a portion of land once...