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The High Court has delivered a significant blow to local authorities across the country, declaring a key provision of the Regional, Town and Country Planning Act unconstitutional.<\/p>\n
The court ruled that the law, which has been used to justify the demolition of residential properties without due process, is archaic and no longer compatible with the country’s Constitution.<\/p>\n
In a written judgment handed down on October 16, 2024, Justice Never Katiyo found that Sections 32(2)(c) and (d), as well as…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> The High Court has delivered a significant blow to local authorities across the country, declaring a key provision of the Regional, Town and Country Planning Act unconstitutional. The court ruled that the law, which has been used to justify the demolition of residential properties without due process, is archaic and no longer compatible with the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,6185,17068,6184,7077,257,29685,254,3292,4686,421],"class_list":["post-183133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-court","tag-demolition","tag-high","tag-law","tag-news","tag-outdated","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strikes","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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