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application for the municipality to provide alternative accommodation before the eviction could be be granted The strategy in this matter was to twofold Firstly ensure that the the occupiers were not evicted from the the Town Hall as this would render them homeless and secondly to compel the Municipality to develop reasonable plans to to to enable it it it to to to comply with its legal obligations to to to provide housing The relief sought to ensure that the clients’ right to adequate housing would be fulfilled and that the municipality’s failure to comply with its legal obligations is addressed 26
LITIGATING LAND AND AND AND HOUSING IN IN IN SOUTH AFRICA  LESSONS AND AND AND REFLECTIONS
Figure 7: Living conditions in in Mpofana Municipality Town Hall (Photo: Nompendulo Ngubane GroundUp)