South African Experience of Land Reform - SG Office

1. South African Experience of Land Reform - SG Office John Obree: Surveyor-General Cape Town

2. Surveyor General: Cape Town • Staff - 146 • Land parcels - +2 000 000 Areas of Jurisdiction Western Cape Province Eastern Cape Province

3. The Present “Formal” Land Title System Title Cadastral Survey Registration Private Land Surveyors Surveyor-General Conveyancers Deeds Office 1. Survey field work 2. Obtain consents 3. Deal with clients 1. Approve 2. Maintain 3. Archive Unique Identification of Rights

4. Circular Farms (1824)

5. Land Reform in SA since 1994 - • Restitution - Act 22/1994 -Land Claims • Land Redistribution - Focus on sustainability: LRAD • Tenure Reform - Communal Land Rights Bill

6. CLRB - 2002 • Preamble: i.t.o. Sect 25 of the Constitution • To provide for: • legal environment and secure tenure • protection of tenure rights • transfer of communal land / registration of deeds / alienation of rights • legalize customary communal land tenure systems • administration structures • Land Rights Boards • settlement of disputes • Land Claims Court • lease and expropriation of communal land

7. Tenure Reform: CLRB • Fears: • Not acceptable to traditional leaders • allocation and administration of land • Questions: • survey and upgrading of rights • initial survey of admin areas • identification of PTO sites • adjudication of boundaries • effective administration systems • priority?

8. Tenure Reform:PTO - “Permission to Occupy” (est. 1 million unsurveyed Titles)Land Administration Systemof the former homelands: Transkei & Ciskei: Eastern Cape Transkei 29 Admin Districts each comprising approx. 40 Admin Areas Ciskei 9 Admin Districts each comprising approx. 40 Admin Areas

9. BRIEF HISTORY • Registration system for 74 yrs.(1920 - 1994) system suspended - records insecure • Used by communities on unregistered state land for: • Residential lots • Arable lots • Other uses: • grazing • burial grounds • sport/recreation • other purpose

10. Hernando de Soto 2000. The mystery of Capital. London: Transworld Publishers. 243p. ISBN 0-593-04664-1 A2 Quantify the actual and potential value of extralegal assets (dead capital) C 1.5.1 Obtain/prepare maps showing the boundaries of individual parcels C3 Re-engineer the record keeping and registration processes

11. Where to from here?- PTO System dysfunctional.How do we recognise or bring the majority of existing PTO’s into the system?Surveyed and unsurveyed: Surveyed Districts “quitrents” Proclamations 174/ 1921 &170/1922 Unsurveyed Districts Proclamation 26/1936

12. LESOTHO KWAZULU NATAL FREE STATE EASTERN CAPE FREEHOLD FARMS SURVEYED GARDEN & BUILDING LOTS (Pre 1936)

15. Action by SGO: CT • Mandate from DLA 2002 Strategic Plan • Investigate and capture all PTO land parcels over next 5 years • Action? • planning workshops • information:investigations & searches • field trips to collect /copy information

21. PTO plan

27. Spatial before informal added

28. Informal digitize

29. Informal digitized

31. Thank You from SG Cape Town - “at your service”