While this has probably remained below the radar for many home owners, amendments to Regulation 68 47/1937 of the Deeds Registries Act which were published in January this year (2019) means that there’s a longer, more onerous - and no doubt costlier route you need to follow if you’ve lost the original Title Deed to your property.

Nedbank has partnered with the Free Market Foundation’s Khaya Lam Land Reform Project to help enable hundreds of families to go from being tenants to homeowners through the transfer of title deeds.

In a bid to protect villagers from unscrupulous property developers and illegal land invasions, the Eastern Cape government wants villagers to be granted title deeds.

The Eastern Cape Department of Human Settlements has set aside R42 million to help home loan defaulters in Motherwell and Uitenhage in the Nelson Mandela Metro.