Question NW1067 to the Minister of Rural Development and Land Reform
22 May 2017 - NW1067
Mbabama, Ms TM to ask the Minister of Rural Development and Land Reform
(a) What number of applications has his department (i) received and/or (ii) processed in each (aa) province and/or (bb) district for the registration of Communal Property Associations and (b) in each case, (i) how many of the applications have been (aa) accepted or (bb) rejected and (ii) what are the reasons in this regard?
Reply:
(a) (i),(ii) The Department of Rural Development and Land Reform received and processed 47 applications for the registration of Communal Property Associations from the 2016-17 financial year to date.
(aa),(bb) Breakdown per province appears below:
- Eastern Cape : 6 applications approved
- Free State : 1 application approved
- KwaZulu-Natal : 5 applications approved
- Limpopo : 1 application approved
- Mpumalanga : 15 applications approved
- Northern Cape : 6 applications approved
- North West : 9 applications approved
- Western Cape : 4 applications approved
(b) (i) (aa) All 47 applications received were approved.
(bb) None. The Department is not rejecting CPA applications, but returns them for corrections if they are non-compliant with registration requirements prescribed by the Communal Property Associations Act, 1996 (Act No 28 of 1996).
(ii) Breakdown per province of non-compliant applications returned to the Provincial Offices for corrections and later approved appears below:
- Eastern Cape : 4
- KwaZulu-Natal : 3
- Limpopo : 1
- Mpumalanga : 2
- North West : 4
- Western Cape : 2