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squatters
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Persons who unlawfully occupy an uninhabited building or who lack a legal title to the land they occupy, including labour tenants and sharecroppers on white farmland in colonial Kenya and Zimbabwe and apartheid South Africa.
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housing
informal settlements
offences against property
tenancy
Subject category
05.01.01 SOCIAL GROUPS AND ORGANIZATIONS
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