While many South Africans come to grips with the practicalities of the Covid-19 lockdown - no non-essentials such as dog walking, outdoor exercise, cigarettes or booze - the Justice Ministry has heeded calls by social justice movements to place a moratorium on evictions and asset seizures.
The law should also not prioritise property rights over basic human rights to health, housing and adequate sanitation. In his address two weeks ago announcing the national state of disaster, President Cyril Ramaphosa told South Africans to take precautions, but the ability to do so is based on a level of privilege and access to amenities that many people don’t have, the groups argued, adding that those most vulnerable include people in informal settlements, on commercial farms, the homeless, facing homelessness and displaced by legal and illegal evictions.
They also called on the Board of Sheriffs and police to instruct their members to halt the execution of the eviction orders and for municipalities to stop deploying the Red Ants and other law enforcement units. On Thursday, Justice Minister Ronald Lamola responded, issuing directions under regulation 10 of the Disaster Management Act, which apply until midnight on April 16 - or whenever lockdown ceases.
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