The Department of Public Works and Infrastructure (DPWI) has released thousands of hectares of land for land restitution, human settlements and other socio-economic reasons over the past year.<\/p>\n
Minister Patricia de Lille said this when she tabled the department\u2019s budget vote on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
At the weekend, De Lille joined President Cyril Ramaphosa and Ministers from the Land Reform Inter-Ministerial Committee IMC to hand over 31 title deeds to black farmers outside Groblersdal in Limpopo.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the past year, 2 574 hectares were released for the Restitution Programme to the Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development (DALRRD) to finalise land transfers to claimants.<\/p>\n
\u201cFifty-two parcels of land, totalling more than 3 000 hectares, were released for human settlements,\u201d said De Lille.<\/p>\n
In addition, 125 parcels of agricultural land for land redistribution, measuring 25 500 hectares and covering all nine provinces, were released.<\/p>\n
In support of infrastructure development, 15 hectares or 11 land parcels were approved for registration of roads, water, electricity and gas pipeline servitudes.<\/p>\n
In the 2021\/22 financial year, the department plans to release 21 132 hectares for land restitution; 10 951 hectares for human settlements, and 180 hectares for other socio-economic purposes. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe department also has an extensive property portfolio comprising 29 041 land parcels and 81 573 buildings – a total of 9 736 are vacant parcels of land ready to support the spatial transformation of our cities and towns,\u201d said De Lille.<\/p>\n
Properties identified for housing GBV victims<\/strong> <\/p>\n Through its Real Estate Management, the department has identified 83 properties in the past year to be allocated for use as shelters for victims of gender-based violence.<\/p>\n \u201cTogether with the Department of Social Development, we inspected 83 properties, and 30 properties were selected to be used by the Department of Social Development as shelters or support centres for people affected by GBVF.<\/p>\n \u201cDuring the previous financial year, 12 properties were allocated to Social Development: six were in the Western Cape and six in the Gauteng Province,\u201d said the Minister.<\/p>\n De Lille said in the year ahead, the department will prepare and release more properties across the country for Social Development to utilise in the fight against gender-based violence and femicide (GBVF).<\/p>\n \u201cAs DPWI, we have requested provinces and municipalities who also own buildings to also release some of their own buildings for gender-based violence purposes and not only wait for DPWI to do so.<\/p>\n \u201cThe department\u2019s facilities management branch will be doing repair and maintenance (preventative and reactive) on state-owned buildings\u2026 to maintain the entity’s portfolio of properties.\u201d<\/p>\n De Lille said the department has enhanced its strategy in reducing reactive maintenance by putting in place preventative contracts through total facilities management and term contracts. \u2013 SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Department of Public Works and Infrastructure (DPWI) has released thousands of hectares of land for land restitution, human settlements and other socio-economic reasons over the past year. Minister Patricia de Lille said this when she tabled the department\u2019s budget vote on Tuesday. At the weekend, De Lille joined President Cyril Ramaphosa and Ministers from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[38678],"class_list":{"0":"post-190006","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-sanews","8":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}