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After a year of business rescue efforts, property developer Propertuity liquidated and sold off its buildings,
Those holdings were part of a redevelopment from Jeppe Hostel, through New Doornfontein to the edge of Hillbrow.
The area pioneered a process whose ripples are increasingly seen in dispossession and clearances across Johannesburg s inner city.
Back in the early 2010s, Blk Jks guitarist Mpumelelo Mcata was drinking coffee at a pavement cafe in the newly gentrifying inner-city area of Maboneng when two Zulu-speaking workers walked past. One hadn’t seen the new development and its hipster denizens before and was disturbed. But his friend reassured him: “Don’t worry, mfana, it’s just a movie set. They’ll take it all down again soon.”
Squatters allowed back into Dunkeld West private property after rights group steps in
By Anna Cox
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Johannesburg - The homeless Dunkeld West squatters, who were evicted earlier this month from a private property in Bompas Road, have settled back onto the property.
They were evicted on April 6 by the Red Ant security relocation and eviction services, with the supervision of the sheriff, who illegally evicted dozens of residents from their homes, leaving them homeless and destitute.
According to the Socio-Economic Rights Institute (Seri) the court order was not legal as it was only against preventing further people entering the property to squat. It was not an eviction order, so the previous occupiers were restored on April 9.
Business and political interests delay urban land reform – Seri Human rights group calls for alternative mechanisms for land tenure to be extended, even to those without title deeds 22 April 2021 - 08:32 Image: 123RF/LOES KIEBOOM
Powerful business and political interests have played a huge role behind the slow pace of urban land reform and redistribution.
This is according to the Socio-Economic Rights Institute (Seri), which this week released two revised papers on urban land reform and redistribution. –
The reports were a result of a series of papers commissioned by the Nelson Mandela Foundation in 2019, to help inform the urban land reform debate and future implementation.