DID ANNUAL REPORT 2023_24

Annual Report 2023-2024

Value

Description - Behaviour and/or action demonstrating the value commitment

• To be open to new ideas and develop creative solutions to problems in a resourceful way; • Introduction of new technologies or upgrades that are designed to achieve both product differentiation and low costs; • Employees are fountains of new ideas fuelling better processes that pools a diverse set of perspectives and experience by assembling cross-functional teams to collaborate on projects; and • Employees use their imaginations to drive innovation. • Ensuring that we are consistent in our values, principles, actions, and measures and thus generate trustworthiness among ourselves and with our stakeholders; and • Being honest in the best interests of the Department, the taxpayers, and the public we serve, taking pro-active steps to improve governance and prevent and act against corruption and maladministration.

Innovative

Ethical conduct and integrity

7. LEGISLATIVE AND OTHER MANDATES

7.1 LEGISLATION GOVERNING THE PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Government Immovable Asset Management Act, 2007 (Act 19 of 2007)

To provide for a uniform framework for the management of an immovable asset that is held or used by a national or provincial department; to ensure the coordination of the use of an immovable asset with the service delivery objectives of a national or provincial department; to provide for issuing of guidelines and minimum standards in respect of immovable asset management by a national or provincial department; and to provide for matters incidental thereto.

Abolition of Certain Title Conditions Act, 1999 (Act 43 of 1999)

The Act provides for the abolition of certain conditions in terms of which the consent or permission of the holder of an office under the Republic is required for the alienation or transfer of immovable property from one person to another.

Prevention of Illegal Eviction and Unlawful Occupation of Land Act (Act 19 of 1998)

The Act provides for the prohibition of unlawful eviction, to provide for procedures for the eviction of unlawful occupiers, and to repeal the Prevention of Illegal Squatting Act, 1951 and other obsolete laws. The Act prescribes a process for dealing with land invasions. The Act prohibits unlawful evictions but seeks to highlight procedures that must be followed for the eviction of unlawful occupiers.

Communal Land Rights Act, 2004 (Act 11 of 2004)

The Act provides for legal security of tenure by transferring communal land, including Gauteng Provincial Land, to communities, or by awarding comparable redress. The Act also provides for: • The conduct of a land rights enquiry to determine the transition from old order rights to new order rights. • The democratic administration of communal land by communities. • Land Rights Boards. • The co-operatives’ performance of municipal functions on communal land

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