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Cape Town's housing waiting list has reached 490,314 and demand is growing by more than 3,000 households a month, far outpacing the delivery of state-subsidised homes, Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis says.
Ghana has launched a comprehensive review of its 1999 National Land Policy to address multiple land sales, boundary disputes and tenure insecurity, with a new framework due by the end of 2027.
Lagos State has commissioned the Lagos Land Archive and unveiled its electronic Geographic Information System as Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu marked the state's first GIS Day.
Housing group Ndifuna Ukwazi has applied to the Supreme Court of Appeal to halt the eviction of hundreds of people from Transnet-owned land at Culemborg in Cape Town, arguing that criminality allegations cannot justify homelessness.
The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research says it has lost substantial portions of its state land to encroachers across Ghana, depriving the institution of millions of dollars in potential economic value.
Kenya's Environment and Land Court in Thika has ordered the return of public land set aside as a playground for three primary schools in Kiambu County after ruling that its transfer to a private institution was illegal.
The City of Tshwane has evicted tenants and stripped a high-rise in Pretoria West owned by developer George Asaba of its doors and windows after a court order cleared the way for its demolition.
The Lagos State Wastewater Management Office has sealed 14 properties across six areas of the state for allegedly discharging untreated sewage into public drains and other wastewater violations.
Ahmed Abouzaid, chairman of Uptown 6 October Group, has called for Egypt's draft real estate law to be broadened from a developers' union bill into an integrated framework covering licensing, off-plan sales, escrow accounts and brokerage.