More Deeply Reactionary Legislation Looms: Prevention of Illegal Eviction from and Unlawful Occupation of Land Amendment Bill

Prevention of Illegal Eviction from and Unlawful Occupation of Land Amendment Bill [B8-2008]

The bill has been tabled in Parliament. It states that it was amended according to comments received, but it still criminalises the organization of land invasion and takes no account of the outcry from the left in general and from poor people’s organisations in particular. The South African Property Owners’ Association must be thrilled.

To read this bill on this site in pdf click here and to read it on the Parliamentry Monitoring Group site click here.

Clearly this Bill will have to be opposed in the same way that the Slums Act has been fought in the streets and in the courts.

Grassroots urban planning will be defended. The subordination of the state to the narrow short term interests of the rich will be opposed.