Human Settlements Minister Lindiwe Sisulu has prioritised the clearance of the title deeds backlog and has established a dedicated ministerial task team to tackle the issue. A team of conveyancers has also been assigned to all nine provinces to assist in eliminating the backlog. Earlier in May a meeting of provincial housing MECs agreed to expedite the work of the task team, said Sisulu, who was speaking at a media briefing ahead of her budget vote debate in the National Assembly on Thursday. She said the aim of the team was to clear the backlog by the end of the term of the current administration. The current title deeds backlog amounts to about 760,000 of which about 628,000 date back to before the current administration took office in 2014 and some even before 1994. "I have also ensured the removal of bureaucratic red tape and blockages which impede and delay the registering and issuing of title deeds. "The team is intended to ensure that the entire backlog we inherited at 2014 i...
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