Ndifuna Ukwazi Press Statement 3 June 2020 Housing IS Healthcare: Social justice movements and organisations call on government to a reinstate blanket ban on evictions Forty one social movements and civil society organisations working with and in support of poor, working-class and vulnerable people have called on the Presidency, the National Command Council and the Department of Justice and Consti. [...] Regulation 36 of the Level 3 Regulations substantially limits the prohibition on evictions by empowering the courts to order evictions during Alert Level 3 if the eviction is deemed just and equitable under the circumstances. [...] While the Regulations still prohibit the execution of evictions during Alert Level 3, the easing of the prohibition of evictions is concerning. [...] At a time when Minister Dlamini-Zuma herself acknowledges that the risk of a massive increase in infections is “now greater than it has been since the start of the outbreak in our country” and that the rates of infection are predicted to rise rapidly, the possibility of evictions, displacement and destruction of one’s home is a potential death sentence. [...] The preservation of life and the prioritisation of a preventative response under the continued state of lockdown necessitates that the home continue to be the primary defence against the spread of COVID-19 for all in our country.
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