Ngomane and Others v City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality and Another (734/2017) [2019] ZASCA 57 (3 April 2019)

Constitutional law – ss 38 and 172 (1)(a) and (b) of the Constitution – municipality removing and destroying property comprising personal effects and materials used to erect overnight shelter belonging to the homeless applicants in a public health law clean-up exercise – not an eviction – applicants not entitled to mandament van spolie or mandatory substitution of the property – destruction of property unlawful and a breach of applicants’ rights to dignity, privacy and not to be deprived of their property – declaration of the unlawfulness of the destruction of the applicants’ property and compensation therefor appropriate relief.