AGRICULTURAL NEWS - The Free Market Foundation (FMF) is assisting township dwellers in South Africa to have the title deeds for the properties on which they live, transferred to them.
Perry Feldman, land reform project manager at FMF, told Farmer’s Weekly that a conveyancer in Parys made the organisation aware of the stipulations of the Upgrading of Land Tenure Rights Act (Act 112 of 1991), which placed an obligation on municipal councils to transfer land in municipal townships to registered residents living there at the time the Act’s promulgation.
However, municipalities often did not have the funds to do so.
The FMF were now transferring title deeds as part of the Khaya Lam project.
The project was initiated in the Ngwathe Local Municipality that encompasses Parys, Heilbron and Edenville in the Free State.
To date 1 650 title deed transfers have been completed.
