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South Africa
South Africa’s experience with land reform, housing delivery and informal settlements offers lessons for Jamaica and the Caribbean. Jamaica Homes News covers South African property, housing and church land news of relevance to Jamaican readers, along with the growing ties between Africa and the Caribbean.
A South African court refused the Apostolic Faith Mission leave to appeal an order returning the keys of a building to a pastor couple, drawing a clear line between ownership and possession.
A South African court refused the Apostolic Faith Mission leave to appeal an order returning the keys of a building to a pastor couple, drawing a clear line between ownership and possession.
A South African court ordered a tribal chief to return the keys of an Anglican church in the Eastern Cape but declined to declare the diocese the owner, because it could not produce documents proving its right to use the communal land.
A South African court ordered a tribal chief to return the keys of an Anglican church in the Eastern Cape but declined to declare the diocese the owner, because it could not produce documents proving its right to use the communal land.
A branch of Shepherd Bushiri’s church lost its court bid to claim a R4.9 million Rustenburg farm registered to his liquidated ministry, after a judge rejected its oral agreement and redacted bank statements as proof of ownership.
A branch of Shepherd Bushiri’s church lost its court bid to claim a R4.9 million Rustenburg farm registered to his liquidated ministry, after a judge rejected its oral agreement and redacted bank statements as proof of ownership.
A church’s deal to buy Cape Town’s heritage-listed Good Hope Centre collapsed, and a mosque has emerged as the proposed buyer, though the city has not disclosed the price or conditions.
A church’s deal to buy Cape Town’s heritage-listed Good Hope Centre collapsed, and a mosque has emerged as the proposed buyer, though the city has not disclosed the price or conditions.
A South African Catholic diocese that donated land in 2003 says conveyancers wrongly transferred all three of its properties; a court has now ordered occupiers off the 74-hectare church site within 48 hours.
A South African Catholic diocese that donated land in 2003 says conveyancers wrongly transferred all three of its properties; a court has now ordered occupiers off the 74-hectare church site within 48 hours.
Congregations Keep Their Buildings: A South African Court Rules Against a Church in a Property Split
A Pretoria court ruled in 2022 that 13 congregations that left the NHKA after a dispute over its apartheid apology could transfer their properties, part of a long history of church property fights in South Africa.
Durban’s eThekwini Municipality handed worship sites in Umlazi, Mpumalanga, Cato Manor and Verulam to 23 churches, saying it wanted to promote land ownership and use churches to deliver government services.
A South African church that had tried since 2005 to buy the land it occupies defeated a municipal bid to evict it for a housing project, with the Western Cape High Court finding the council had not shown the occupation was unlawful.
Ekurhuleni metro police demolished 22 churches built on unoccupied land in 2018, with pastors saying some had stood for over a decade and that members’ donations went down the drain.
A two-decade feud between two Presbyterian churches over shared property in Mthatha neared its end when the Reformed Presbyterian congregation chose to relocate after a court ruled for the Uniting Presbyterian Church.
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