presented by DR NOZIZWE MAKGALEMELE Deputy Director General: Land Planning & Information DEPARTMENT OF LAND AFFAIRS THE LAND REGISTRATION SYSTEM OF SOUTH AFRICA

SOUTH AFRICA DEPARTMENT OF LAND AFFAIRS

Vision: To be a global leader in the creation and maintenance of an equitable and sustainable land dispensation that results in social and economic development for all South Africans Mission: To provide enhanced land rights to all South Africans, with particular emphasis on black people, that would result in increased income levels and job opportunities, productive land use and well planned human settlements. DEPARTMENT OF LAND AFFAIRS

DEPARTMENTAL ORGANOGRAM DIRECTOR-GENERAL BRANCH: Land Planning and Information BRANCH: Land and Tenure Reform BRANCH: Restitution BRANCH: Corporate Services

BRANCH ORGANOGRAM BRANCH: Land Planning and Information CHIEF DIRECTORATE: Surveys and Mapping CHIEF DIRECTORATE: Spatial Planning and Information CHIEF DIRECTORATE: Cadastral Surveys CHIEF DIRECTORATE: Deeds Registration

Six Primary Components in Land Affairs:  Restitution Settlement of all outstanding land claims by claims lodged by Settled claims to date.  Redistribution Redistribution of 30% of white-owned agricultural land by Review of the willing buyer-willing seller principle. Proactive acquisition of land strategy. Expropriation. Policy on land ownership by foreigners.  Tenure Reform Provision of tenure security for people that are working and living on commercial farms.

 Surveys and Mapping National Control Survey System. National Aerial Photography and Imagery. National Map Series  Spatial Planning & Information Redress Apartheid Settlement Patterns Formulate Spatial Development Frameworks Maintain Spatial Data Infrastructure  Land Registration System Approve cadastral documents and register deeds Maintain and preserve records Furnish cadastral and registration information Six Primary Components in Land Affairs:

The Land Registration System Cadastral SurveyRegistration Private Land Surveyors Surveyor-GeneralConveyancersDeeds Office

Reform of the Cadastre BACKGROUND: Title to land and other real rights not guaranteed by the State. Cadastral system is based on the principal of private law giving effect to statutory, case, and common law. It is the basis for investments of billions of rand per year and benefitting the previously disadvantaged sector of the population.

PROBLEM STATEMENT: The inability of the present system to accommodate the increase in volume. The need to ensure compatibility of systems. The demand for decentralization of services. The necessity for consolidating and rationalising diversified surveying and registration procedures. The need to provide registration capability for other forms of land tenure. The need to increase speed of delivery by interfacing with e-commerce models. Reform of the Cadastre

OBJECTIVES: To conduct an initial study of the South African Cadastral System and identify possible improvements. To review the current approaches to maintaining and providing land ownership information. To review work flow, policy, legislation, resources, and records management. To help develop a new system, procedures, organisation and human resource planning. To restructure the Cadastral system along business lines.

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