By KWANELE SOSIBO –
The Socioeconomic Rights Institute of South Africa (Seri-SA) has accused the City of Johannesburg of doing nothing to provide alternative accommodation for evictees since the landmark 2011 Blue Moonlight judgment, which put the onus for providing alternative accommodation for private evictees on its doorstep.
Earlier this week, over 1 000 occupiers of several inner city Johannesburg buildings issued an application to the high court in Johannesburg requesting the court to declare that the City of Johannesburg has failed to discharge its constitutional obligations: to provide temporary accommodation to poor people facing eviction.
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