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The City’s Housing Department is hosting a six-member delegation from the Kingdom of Eswatini on a benchmarking visit focusing on Joburg’s Sectional Title Scheme programme.
The visit, scheduled over two-days will be an information exchange exercise based on how the City manages sectional titles and what its legislation is regarding this.
The Sectional Title Scheme enables the awarding of Sectional Title deeds to beneficiaries who reside in rented flats and row houses from the 1960s. The City uses the Discount Benefit Scheme to transfer these properties as pronounced by Government since 1994.
Headed by Clifford Mamba, Eswatini's Principal Secretary of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development, the delegation has identified the City of Johannesburg as a prospective partner in housing, given its vast experience in dealing with sectional title schemes.
The delegation will tour different properties that the City has converted under the Sectional title scheme and will also make a stop at RDP flats that fall under this scheme, such as those in Bellavista and South Hills in the South of Joburg and Jabulani in Soweto.
Following on the legislation of Sectional title schemes, the City’s housing department has registered over 2 570 title deeds in the past five years after extensive engagements with affected communities as well as entities responsible for bulk services such as Roads, Water and Electricity.
Johannesburg remains well ahead of other municipalities in the conversion of properties from rental to sectional titles.
