Extension of security of tenure (land) Amendment Bill: stakeholders’ consultative meeting, with Deputy Minister of Labour

SALGA supports the amendments on tenure grants although it proposed that the provision of bulk services for alternative land and the delivery of municipal services should also be included in the tenure grant. SALGA supports the amendments as it affects limitations on evictions and additional rights to occupiers. The amendments on the establishment of a land rights management board and land rights management committees are also supported by SALGA. The submission discussed the challenges of evictions and the impacts of this on municipalities in detail. SALGA said that the process of eviction, including the safeguard of the evictees’ possessions, need to be covered either in the Act or in regulations. SALGA also spoke about the incorrect conflation of the Extension of security of tenure (land) Act (ESTA) with the Prevention of Illegal Eviction from and Unlawful Occupation of Land (PIE) Act in court rulings when dealing with urban areas where land is zoned “Agriculture”