JOHANNESBURG Mayor Herman Mashaba has handed title deeds to a grandmother who has been waiting to own her home since 1963.On Tuesday Mashaba visited Diepkloof resident Annah Dikgale in the Soweto township to give her the title deed for her house.His visit marked the first of 40 title deeds he will be handing over to residents in Soweto, including those in Meadowlands and Orlando, in the next few days.READ THIS: Leading a professional team for job at handThe mayor has vowed to end Johannesburg’s title deed backlog during his five years of governance, and will hand over 2,000 of them to residents in the next few weeks."This title deed, you know what it says to you? No government can ever take it away from you. All the apartheid legislation prevented you as a black person [from] having ownership of it, you are now a house owner by law, no one can take it away," said Mashaba as he handed it to Dikgale.He said Dikgale could now use the house as financial security and it would make getti...
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