Landlords strangled by Covid-19 lockdown regulations on evictions Cape Town - Landlords are struggling at every turn. And extended lockdown regulations that prevent them from being able to evict long-term non-paying tenants, is adding to their burden. Now the DA is calling on the government to amend Regulation 73(2) that empowers a court to stay all eviction proceedings for the duration of the national state of disaster, which at present is an indefinite period. Andrew Schaefer, managing director of property management group Trafalgar, says long delays in being able to action any eviction orders that were obtained has exacerbated the grave loss of rental income for many landlords over the past year.