Man arrested in connection with St. Martinville fatal shooting
St. Martinville Police
and last updated 2021-05-18 16:35:48-04
The person wanted in connection with a fatal shooting outside an apartment on Sunday has been arrested
St. Martinville Police Chief Ricky Martin says that Joshua Davis has been arrested in connection with this incident that happened in the 100 Block of Madison Street.
Jordan Bulliard, 31, was shot twice outside his apartment, police say.
Davis was arrested on charges of first-degree murder, aggravated criminal damage to property, and illegal discharge of a firearm.
He was booked into the St. Martin Parish Jail and has a bond of $500,000.
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.
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Nhlanhla Gwendoline Sibanda is a sex worker who has been unable to make enough money during the Covid-19 lockdown to pay rent and other expenses.
She moved onto an empty property in the upmarket suburb of Dunkeld West last year. She lives with about 50 other people, some of whom claim to be living there for over two decades.
“Our industry really suffered last year. I lost my income and had to find another place to stay,” she said. There is no running water on the property.
The occupiers were evicted earlier this month on the basis of an interdict. But, represented by the Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa (SERI), the occupiers challenged the eviction in the high court in Johannesburg. The court ruled on 9 April that the eviction was unlawful. The occupiers were then allowed to move back. SERI argued that the eviction was illegal because it was done without a court order.
In April 2019, the Nelson Mandela Foundation commissioned a series of papers on urban land reform. Their aim was to inform debate about and propose a feasible approach to urban land reform which could, in the near future, be implemented. In line with this, SERI authored two papers on urban land reform and urban land redistribution. SERI has recently published the revised versions of the summary reports of the papers submitted to the Nelson Mandela Foundation and will be published at a later stage.
The paper on urban land reform adopts Section 25(6)2 and Sections 26 (1), (2) and (3)3 of the Constitution as its starting points. Shortly after the Constitution was enacted, a set of tenure security laws were enacted to give immediate effect to Section 25(6), pending the development of legislation providing permanent, positive rights.4 The Prevention of Illegal Eviction and Unlawful Occupation of Land Act 19 of 1998 (the PIE Act), which gave effect to section 26(3), is one of
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.