c p African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights Human Rights our Collective Responsibility 224. It is the position of this Commission the necessity to follow legal rules in the progressive realisation of economic, ,o,",,_u.u and cultural rights must not be used as a yardstick by states to evade responsibility to fulfil the obligation to provide housing for those that are for housing. The requirement for the Respondent State to act in with domestic law does not trump its domestic and international rights obligations to prioritise the Complainants and any other set of groups in the process of allocating its resources, and to act fast in 225. The Complainants have repeatedly South African courts that they are occupation was at the behest of the confirms that their occupation of the .-'...",....o ...t-u remove them from harms way suggests that unless the unintentional illegal occupation not to be evicted and for purchasing the ,....,,..,,....,o ..."I"u the 76 affected providing alternative ..... ~'"V~.LLUL'"'''L..... for that purpose. " the right of th~i~Ji:i~iul government 1fnder tii:~ Charter. HQ)':'tever, Respondent $f~te. on the record before but that their housing concern, and the responsibility of as well as the African , ".".;' ,~ 226. Between 2004 ii':i1.(;12022,the has had nearly two decades to seek alt~;rna,tiveaccorilt1iqq~tionor bl1yJand op the property for the settlement of th~<,GQmplainantsC~~:'~Pfe¥i~H$ry OV,""'I!II~CO' by the Municipality. There is no indicii~iori::t~~t;.tpeGo.Jernffi~ht plans utilize the option of formalizing the Compl~:P1an!~~;;s~:ty~~peflt on the . Rather, the Government relied on AnnexufeSi.RM8 titled:;:;!i;Wetland and Functional Assessment for WadevilleExt. 41" bY'Wetland Services (Pty) Ltd dated October 2007, and t~M 10 titled the " Station Report" by the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan-Municipality dated June 2016, to buttress the point that the property is unfit for human habitation.v" 68 First Submission on Merits on behalf of the Republic