Isipingo flat dwellers to get title deeds soon

PROGRESS has been made towards giving ownership to residents who have lived in the municipal rental flats in Orient Hills and Lotus Park in Isipingo for many years.

Also read: A long wait for title deeds in Isipingo

This after a meeting convened by Smangele Moloi, the eThekwini Municipality’s deputy head of Human Settlements, was held on August 10, to plan a way forward towards giving title deeds for the 940 units that the City has been letting out to residents for decades.

Ward 90 councillor Shad Nowbuth said most of the verification process for all units has been completed.

“The Human Settlements Department will set up a meeting of all beneficiaries on a date and time to be decided. At that meeting, beneficiaries will be given the opportunity to seek clarity on any issue with regard to their units. The department is on track – if no challenges are encountered – to begin issuing ownership titles in May 2024,” said Nowbuth.

At the meeting, it was suggested that beneficiaries who are in arrears should arrange for payments to be made.

Nowbuth said the issue of the title deeds in Isipingo has been a long and drawn-out one.

“Further updates will be provided, but it seems that the wait should not be too long now,” he said.

At Zinnia Court, a municipal building with rental flats in Lotus Park, residents had complained that some of them had been renting their units for almost 50 years. After 1994, they were promised title deeds, but things did not go as planned as the process got drawn out.

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