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Land Acquisitions and Management

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The key priority for Land Acquistions and Management (LAM) is facilitating the acquisition of public land by the HDA. Identifying and planning land-development opportunities, and advocating for the release of state-owned land for human settlement development are also priorities.

The Land Acquisitions and Management programme is structured into four areas:

  • Land identification and planning
  • Acquisitions management
  • Land and property assets holding
  • Land geo-spatial services

Also falling within the ambit of land acquisition and management are the geographic and spatial information systems as required by Section 7(2)(d) of the HDA Act. The HDA has developed an online system — the Land and Property Spatial Information System (LaPSIS) — to perform this inventory function. LaPSIS is a government-driven engine that stores all land and landed property data including cadastre, ownership, title documents, deeds, administrative boundaries and points of interest in South Africa. LaPSIS is used to identify, verify, manage and monitor state, communal and private land thereby facilitating the acquisition, holding, development and release of this land for residential and community purposes. The system offers sophisticated queries as well as graphic and alphanumeric display capabilities. The implementation of the system allows the Agency to detect all gaps in the land identification and acquisition process. LaPSIS also handles the generation of reports thus establishing itself as an intelligent reference system supporting strategic planning and guiding decision-making processes at national level.

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