page_title: KwaZulu-Natal Elimination and Prevention of Re-emergence of Slums Act, 2007
section_title: The road to the Constitutional Court
hierarchical_section_title: KwaZulu-Natal Elimination and Prevention of Re-emergence of Slums Act, 2007 / Constitutional Court of South Africa judgment / The road to the Constitutional Court
caption_attribution_description: English: Abahlali baseMjondolo Protest the Slums Act at the Constitutional Court in Johannesburg, South Africa.
context_page_description: The KwaZulu-Natal Elimination and Prevention of Re-emergence of Slums Act, 2007 was a provincial law dealing with land tenure and evictions in the province of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa.
context_section_description: The squatters' movement Abahlali baseMjondolo took the government to court to have the Act declared unconstitutional. It lost in the KwaZulu-Natal High Court, Durban but then appealed directly to the Constitutional Court.
  Abahlali baseMjondolo argued that the province was mandated to deal with housing rather than land tenure and that the act dealt with evictions and slum eradication rather than the provision of housing. They also argued that the act was vague and gave too much power to the provincial government that was in conflict with section 26 of the constitution that deals with housing and eviction rights.
caption: Abahlali baseMjondolo protest the Slums Act at the Constitutional Court
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