The death of Perry Feldman is a devastating loss to the Khaya Lam project, the Free Market Foundation said. Perry died in a Johannesburg hospital early on Sunday morning from Covid-related causes, in the company of his loving wife, Veronica, and other family members. “It is a terrible personal loss to his friends and colleagues at the Free Market Foundation, and a devastating loss to the Khaya Lam project, of which Perry was the Project Manager, with Veronica always at his side. ” “He changed the lives of thousands for the better. We will miss his generous spirit and kind nature and endless energy.” “I want to assure you that Khaya Lam will of course continue. We ask that everyone involved, proceed with the work with which they are currently busy,” said Gail from the Free Market Foundation.
About the Free Market Foundation’s Khaya Lam initiative in Parys
Eleven years ago Perry launched the Free Market Foundation’s Khaya Lam initiative in Parys. This remains an ambitious national attempt to raise funds to enable thousands of township occupants to obtain clear title deeds to the township houses they occupy. So far, this has registered 3 500 houses in Tumahole alone in the names of their new owners. “Ownership means the owner can sell, bond, donate, improve, enlarge or bequeath his house,” Perry always explained. These title deeds “…increased Ngwathe’s rateable property values by around R430m, and have injected the same capital into the national economy,” Perry recently wrote. Nationally, some 11 000 title deeds have been transferred by Perry’s FMF team.
