Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis and Councillor Carl Pophaim, Mayoral Committee Member for Human Settlements, visited Tafelsig resident Rosina Plaaitjies, 79, on 13 August 2025, to personally deliver the title deed to her home. Councillor Pophaim also sat down to lunch with 50 residents at the Olifantshoek Community Hall to hand over their deeds.
The visit forms part of the Mayor’s Service Blitz initiative, to take a range of services directly to residents in various parts of the city, and also part of the City’s ongoing mission to issue title deeds to Cape Town residents. This important initiative forms part of the City’s commitment to enable secure home ownership and create sustainable, empowered communities.
‘The Mayor and I have spoken publicly about our obsession with ensuring we create more home owners in Cape Town. A title deed changed my grandmother’s life and can do the same for so many other families. We are investing more than R20 million to fund the transfer of properties at no cost to qualifying residents. This is the biggest municipal commitment in South Africa to build generational security and opportunities for families.
‘It is so important for us to spend time and engage with the residents who have become owners of their units as part of the City’s unique home-ownership ‘No Cost Transfer’ programme. We have already delivered more than 6 600 deeds to residents as part of this initiative. We have less than 5 000 to go and are fully committed to this mission.
‘We encourage beneficiaries in older City of Cape Town housing developments who do not have their title deed to contact the City. To really drive progress, we will soon take our new and improved Human Settlements bus into all areas of the metro, to not only bring services closer to communities, but also take our Title-Deed-to-Door programme directly to our residents again,’ said Councillor Pophaim.
Source: City of Cape Town