Occupants win court battle to stay in hijacked home in posh Joburg suburb 12 April 2021 - 12:43 A group of people who hijacked an abandoned house at 21 Bompas Road in Dunkeld West have won a court victory, as their eviction from the property was ruled to be unlawful. File photo. Image: Sebabatso Mosamo
The high court in Johannesburg has ordered that a group of people who “hijacked” a multimillion-rand vacant house in Dunkeld West were unlawfully evicted and can return to stay there, for now.
Non-profit human rights lawyers the Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa (Seri) took the case of the house invaders - about 50 of whom were evicted by the Red Ants on April 6, leaving their property on the pavement - to court.