Moutse Demarcation Case Dismissed

The Constitutional Court has dismissed an application by residents of Moutse, who challenged two laws that relocated parts of their municipality from the Mpumalanga to Limpopo.

The matter involving Moutse, once a cross-border municipality straddling the Limpopo-Mpumalanga border, is the last of the cases where the Constitutional Court has had to decide on the constitutionality of the legislation on cross-border municipalities and the question of public participation.

Constitutional Court has had to decide on the constitutionality of the legislation regarding cross-border municipalities as well as public participation.

Similarly, an application from the Khutsong residents falling on the Gauteng- North West cross-border was once dismissed by the court with the Gauteng legislature stating that they have fulfilled their duty of public involvement facilitation.

The Moutse residents believe the relocation laws are irrational.

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