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THE LAND REGISTRATION SYSTEM
OF SOUTH AFRICA
presented
by
DR NOZIZWE MAKGALEMELE
Deputy Director General: Land Planning & Information
DEPARTMENT OF LAND AFFAIRS
SOUTH AFRICA
DEPARTMENT
OF
LAND AFFAIRS
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.
DEPARTMENTAL
ORGANOGRAM
DIRECTOR-GENERAL
BRANCH:
BRANCH:
BRANCH:
BRANCH:
Land
Planning and
Information
Land and
Tenure
Reform
Restitution
Corporate
Services
BRANCH ORGANOGRAM
BRANCH:
Land Planning and Information
CHIEF
DIRECTORATE:
CHIEF
DIRECTORATE:
CHIEF
DIRECTORATE:
CHIEF
DIRECTORATE:
Surveys and
Mapping
Spatial Planning
and Information
Cadastral
Surveys
Deeds
Registration
Six Primary Components in Land Affairs:
 Restitution
• Settlement of all outstanding land claims by 2008.
• 79 696 claims lodged by 1998.
• Settled 73 200 claims to date.
 Redistribution
• Redistribution of 30% of white-owned agricultural land by
2014.
• 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.
Six Primary Components in Land Affairs:
 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
Cadastral Survey
Deeds Office
Conveyancers
Surveyor-General
Private Land
Surveyors
The Land Registration System
Registration
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.
Reform of the Cadastre
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.
I THANK YOU