Who Holds the Switch? SCA Rules on Electricity for Farm Occupiers

The tension between private property rights and the statutory protections of farm occupiers under the Extension of Security of Tenure Act 62 of 1997 (ESTA) remains one of the most litigated areas of South African land law. While ESTA guarantees tenure security and prevents arbitrary evictions, modern jurisprudence continues to refine what “habitable conditions” mean […]