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) ) City’s City’s mayor asked asked to resolve issue issue
Land issue bugs city
Councillor Simpiwe Nonkeyizana from the ANC on the SANRAL land in Wallacedene where the city is deve loping housing. Photo: Desireé Rorke DESIREÉ RORKE
The Bergdal Subcouncil has called for urgent intervention by the executive mayor of Cape Town Patricia de Lille into a matter concerning the construction of city housing in Wallacedene on land belonging to SANRAL. At a subcouncil meeting last week, cllrs Marian Nieuwoudt, Simpiwe Nonkeyizana and Grant Twigg wanted to know from the Department of Human Settlements, how it came that the City of Cape Town continued with their development plans on this land, while it
was still in the name of SANRAL. “You cannot build on other people’s land,” Nieuwoudt insisted, before requesting the intervention. According to city official Isak April from the department of New Settlements, the City of Cape Town only realised that one portion of the land belonged to SANRAL after the rest of the land was purchased and the plans penned. “In the meantime this land has been purchased and the land will be transferred to the city, but will take some time,” he said. According to him the transfer has been delayed for a year now due to administrative glitches, but he
could not indicate exactly what these glitches were. The subcouncil will now write to the mayor requesting an urgent investigation into the matter to determine how this planning blunder occurred, and how far the transfer of title deeds process is. “The mayor must also advise the subcouncil how to deal with this matter henceforth,” Twigg said. According to the progressive capital expenditure report, a total of R1,3 million has already been allocated to phases of the projects in Wallacedene of which nearly R1 million has already been spent. According to Nonkeyizana, serv-
ices have already been installed on the land by the city, and families qualifying for houses already relocated there. Ernest Sonnenberg, mayoral committee member of human settlements, responded to a TygerBurger media enquiry. He said that the SANRAL land has been built upon, based on agreements between the City of Cape Town and SANRAL signed in 2005. “The rezoning process required that all data for interested and affected parties be circulated as part of the public participation process, including SANRAL, as a neighbouring landowner, and no objections
were received,” he said in a written statement. According to Sonnenburg, SANRAL is expected to approve transfer of the two outstanding portions by end July and that the actual transfer will occur by the end of August. After this the conveyancer will lodge a consolidation application in September and the final transfer will occur in mid-October. “The civil services for this phase were developed with subsidy funding from the provincial government, who do not approve funding if ownership issues have not been resolved, thus, the expenditure was not imprudent,” he said.
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