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The Mpumalanga High Court threw out three unopposed repossession bids by Standard Bank, FirstRand and Nqaba Finance and ordered that the lenders not pass their legal costs on to customers.
The Local Government Minister says urban Zongos can be transformed to fix sanitation, housing and access problems while residents stay in their homes.
Displaced residents and traders in Laini Saba, Kibra, told a Senate committee that only a fraction of promised houses and stalls have been delivered, with some units still lacking water and sewer connections.
Uganda's lands minister says the government is fast-tracking the Real Estate Bill to professionalise the property sector, protect the public from fraudulent transactions and improve access to housing finance.
Residents of three Ebute-Metta West communities have asked Lagos State's planning appeals committee for N1 billion in compensation over a 2024 demolition they say was unlawful.
Tanzania is developing a National Land Data Infrastructure to centralise land records, with land boards and valuers directed to speed up the digitisation of their services.
Nairobi County has opened a regularisation amnesty giving property owners with unauthorised developments until December 31 to obtain the required planning approvals.
Zanzibar's deputy minister for lands told the House of Representatives that land taken for investment without proper notice or compensation will be returned to owners where mistakes are verified, or fairly compensated where return is legally impossible.
Land Reform and Rural Development Minister Mzwanele Nyhontso told Parliament the latest figures date from a 2017 audit that found foreign nationals owned 0.56% of South Africa's land, and that new legislation on foreign landholding is being drafted.