That said, reparations are a very special device, for they go beyond the recognition of past wrongs to demand paybacks for historical debts. (ecoequity.org)
The editorial correctly states one of the Court's conclusions to be that the transfer of a property into the name of a new owner does not extinguish the hypothec created by section 118 (3) of the Act in favour of the municipality, which means that nothing would prevent the municipality from obtaining a court order, selling the property concerned in execution and applying the proceeds to pay off the outstanding historical debt.» (reimag.co.za)
The recent ConCourt case, then, involves historical debt, i.e. debt that falls outside of this two year window. (reimag.co.za)