- Title
- The recognition and protection of the interest of landlords within the framework of the rental housing act 50 of 1999
- Creator
- Klos, Tamara Amy
- Subject
- Landlord and tenant -- South Africa
- Subject
- Rent -- South Africa
- Subject
- Rental housing -- South Africa
- Subject
- Rental housing -- Law and legislation -- South Africa
- Subject
- Landlords -- South Africa
- Date Issued
- 2010
- Date
- 2010
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- LLM
- Identifier
- vital:10221
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/1171
- Identifier
- Landlord and tenant -- South Africa
- Identifier
- Rent -- South Africa
- Identifier
- Rental housing -- South Africa
- Identifier
- Rental housing -- Law and legislation -- South Africa
- Identifier
- Landlords -- South Africa
- Description
- This dissertation analyses the South African Rental Housing Act 50 of 1999 ("the RHA") with the aim of determining whether the RHA sufficiently protects the landlords‘ rights and interests as opposed to those of tenants (which it does indeed safeguard). Due to the current saturation of rental property in South Africa, landlords are no longer in an advantageous a position as before. In fact, the RHA was introduced to redress the imbalance caused by discrimination against tenants. However, times have changed. The researcher submits that the RHA needs to be re-examined in light perception of the landlord as a consumer. Having regard to both common and foreign law, the researcher identified the following four fundamental legal and practical rights on the part of the landlord: the right to freely contract; the right to safeguard financial interests; the right to safeguard proprietary interests; and the right to evict a defaulting tenant. The research reveals that the RHA does not give adequate recognition to these fundamental legal rights, and accordingly does not sufficiently protect the landlord as a consumer. In total nineteen recommendations how the RHA can adequately recognize and protect the landlord‘s interests are made.
- Format
- 168 p. ; 31 cm
- Format
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Law
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
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