{"id":250209,"date":"2023-02-16T11:53:21","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T09:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/government-is-expediting-release-of-title-deeds\/"},"modified":"2023-02-16T11:53:21","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T09:53:21","slug":"government-is-expediting-release-of-title-deeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/government-is-expediting-release-of-title-deeds\/","title":{"rendered":"Government is expediting release of title deeds"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Minister of Human Settlements Mmamoloko Kubayi says government is fast tracking the release of title deeds for subsidised houses \u201cas an important instrument of economic empowerment\u201d.<\/p>\n

Kubayi was speaking during Parliament\u2019s debate on the State of the Nation Address (SONA) delivered by President Cyril Ramaphosa last week.<\/p>\n

Currently, the backlog stands at some one million houses \u2013 an estimated R242 billion in assets.<\/p>\n

\u201cWorking together with Operation Vulindlela, the Department of Human Settlements will expedite the provision of title deeds for subsidized houses.<\/p>\n

\u201cOver and above this, we are working around the clock to unblock the title deeds issuing across provinces. We are working with the communities of Mawiga in Gauteng to unlock 14 000 title deeds of houses that they were never allowed to own by the Apartheid government.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have established a steering committee with the community to ensure accountability and transparency of the work done,\u201d she said at Wednesday\u2019s debate.<\/p>\n

In relation to tittle deeds for informal settlements, the Minister said the department is working to upgrade and bring much needed services to South Africa\u2019s 2700 informal settlements through the provision of water, electricity and sanitation.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen an informal settlement is upgraded, it means it has gone through the process of formalisation, such that title deeds can be issued for individual stands. In the last financial year, about 24 671 stands were created through the informal upgrading process,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Kubayi explained that upgrading these informal settlements also allows government to respond more efficiently to disasters in those areas.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith climate change, natural disasters are becoming more frequent and most of our infrastructure was not designed to be resilient. In the past five days, our country has experienced devastating floods in KwaZulu-Natal, Eastern Cape, Limpopo and Mpumalanga.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the past few days, we have also seen numerous fires here in the Western Cape, especially in informal settlements.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor an effective response to these disasters, we need land, we need South Africans to embrace each other in integrated communities and political parties that don\u2019t play politics at a time when families are homeless, vulnerable and distressed.<\/p>\n

\u201cGoing forward, we also have begun to reconceptualise how we develop human settlements so that we can incorporate climate change resilience in the infrastructure we provide,\u201d said the Minister. \u2013 SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Minister of Human Settlements Mmamoloko Kubayi says government is fast tracking the release of title deeds for subsidised houses \u201cas an important instrument of economic empowerment\u201d. Kubayi was speaking during Parliament\u2019s debate on the State of the Nation Address (SONA) delivered by President Cyril Ramaphosa last week. Currently, the backlog stands at some one million […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":250210,"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-250209","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-south-africa","8":"tag-sanews","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/government-is-expediting-release-of-title-deeds.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250209","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=250209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}