City hands over the title deeds
Mfuleni Hall filled with new, grateful homeowners
FIVE thousand title deeds were handed over to residents in Mfuleni, Wallacedene, Wesbank and Kalkfontein, yesterday.In Mfuleni, the community hall was packed to the brim with new homeowners. Sibongile Nase from Mfuleni, said: “This is a great day for me. I have been looking forward to this day for 20 years, to have the title deed to my house. I have been staying in Mfuleni for 20 years.”
Nonceba Madaka, 62, said she had come to the meeting to hear how far her title deed registration was.
“I have been staying in my house for 43 years. I am very happy,” she said.
At the Sarepta Community Hall in Kuils River, Welma Maasdorp, 50, said: “I came today because I am looking forward to having my title deed.
“I have been staying in Kalkfontein for the past 23 years.”
The City of Cape Town’s mayoral committee member for area north, Suzette Little, said that the handover of title deeds formed part of “our efforts to build an inclusive city and promote property ownership for residents who for many years were not able to own property”.
“Over the past six years, the City has handed over thousands of title deeds to residents to ensure that they are confirmed as rightful owners,” she said.
“The transfer of ownership and handing over of title deeds is in line with the City’s commitment to redressing the imbalances of the apartheid past where people where denied ownership of property.”