Department of Rural Development and Land Reform Annual Report 2014/2015

318 Pages·2015·3.02 MB·English

Department of Rural Development
and Land Reform
Annual Report
2014/15
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CONTENTS
Department of Rural Development and Land Reform
Annual Report 2014/15
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PART A: GENERAL INFORMATION
2 General information
2 List of Abbreviations/Acronyms
4 Strategic overview
6 Legislative and other Mandates
8 Organisational Structure
9 Entities reporting to the Minister
10 Foreword by the Minister
12 Statement by the Deputy Minister Mashego-Dlamini
13 Statement by the Deputy Minister Skwatsha
15 Overview of the Accounting Officer
PART B: PERFORMANCE INFORMATION
18 Accounting Officer’s Statement of Responsibility for Performance Information
18 Auditor-General’s Report: Predetermined Objectives
18 Overview of departmental Performance
21 Strategic Outcome Oriented Goals
22 Performance Information by Programme
34 Summary of Financial Information
PART C: GOVERNANCE
40 Introduction
40 Risk management
40 Fraud and corruption
40 Minimising conflict of interest
41 Code of conduct
41 Health, safety and environmental issues
42 Internal control unit
42 Report of the Audit Committee
PART D: HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
46 Legislation that govern Human Resource Management
46 Introduction
50 Human Resources Oversight Statistics
PART E: FINANCIAL INFORMATION
68 Report of the Accounting Officer
74 Accounting Officer’s statement of responsibility for the Annual Financial Statements
75 Report of the Auditor-General
79 Appropriation per programme
80 Appropriation per economic classification
178 Notes to the appropriation statement
180 Statement of financial performance
182 Statement of financial position
183 Statement of changes in net assets
184 Cash flow statement
185 Accounting policies
191 Notes to the annual financial statements
228 Annexures to the annual financial statements
246 Report of the Auditor-General to Parliament on Agricultural Land Holding Account
249 Agricultural Land Holding Account: Annual financial statements
279 Report of the Auditor-General to Parliament on the Deeds Registration Trading Account
282 Deeds Registration Trading Account: Annual financial statements
PART A
General information
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1. General information
PHYSICAL ADDRESS: EVICTIONS TOLL-FREE NUMBER:
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Pretoria TELEPHONE NUMBER:
0002 012 312 8911
FAX NUMBER:
POSTAL ADDRESS: 012 312 8066
Private Bag X833 WEBSITE ADDRESS:
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2. List of Abbreviations/Acronyms
AG Auditor-General DMP Demand Management Plans
AGSA Auditor-General of South Africa DORA Division of Revenue Act
AFS Annual Financial Statement DPSA Department of Public Service and
AIDS Acquired Immune Deficiency Administration
Syndrome DRDLR Department of Rural Development
APP Annual Performance Plan and Land Reform
ALHA Agricultural Land Holdings Account EC Eastern Cape
ASNAPP Agribusiness in sustainable natural EE Employment Equity
plant EEA Employment Equity Act
ANC African National Congress EHWP Employee Health and Wellness
BAS Basic Accounting System Programme
CTH Cheadle Thompson and Hayson FCC Finance Compliance Committee
CRLR Commission on Restitution of Land FMPPI Framework for managing
Rights programme performance
CFO Chief Financial Officer information
CPA Communal Property Association GRAP General Recognised Accounting
CRDP Comprehensive Rural Development Practice
Programme Ha Hectares
DAFF Department of Agriculture Fisheries HH Households
and Foresty HIV Human Immuno-deficiency Virus
DoA Delegations of Authority HR Human Resource
DDG Deputy Director-General HRD Human Resource Development
DG Director-General ICT Information Communication
DM District Municipalities Technology
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IDP Integrated Development Plan PSSC Provincial Shared Service Centre
IT Information Technology PSW Public Service Week
JE Job Evaluation PSTF Public Service Trainers Forum
JHB Johannesburg POE Portfolio of Evidence
KZN KwaZulu-Natal RADP Recapitalisation and Development
LP Limpopo Programme
MCS Modified Cash Standard RDP Rural Development Programme
MP Mpumalanga REID Rural Enterprise and Industrial
MPAT Management Performance Development
Assessment Tool RID Rural Infrastructure Development
MTSF Medium Term Strategic Framework RLCC Regional Land Claim Commission
MTEF Medium Term Expenditure SCM Supply Chain Management
Framework SCMP Supply Chain Management Policy
NARYSEC National Rural Youth Services Corps SCOA Standard Chart of Accounts
NBAC National Bid Adjudication Committee SDIP Service Delivery Improvement Plan
NDP National Development Plan SDF State Domestic Facilities
NDS National Development Skills SG Surveyor General
NEDLAC National Economic Development SETA Skills Education Training Agency
and Labour Council SOP Standard Operating Procedures
NPC National Planning Commission SMS Senior Management Service
NSDF National Spatial Development SLA Service Level Agreement
Framework SPLUM Spatial Planning and Land Use
OHS Occupational Health and Safety Management
OSD Occupation Specific Dispensation SPLUMA Spatial Planning and Land Use
OVG Office of the Valuer–General Management Act
PA Performance Agreement TB Tuberculosis
PAA Public Audit Act TCC Tax Clearance Certificates
PERSAL Personnel Salaries TR Treasury Regulations
PFMA Public Finance Management Act TRANCRAA Transformation of Certain Rural
SIU Special Investigating Unit Areas Act
PLOF Policy on Land Ownership by WC Western Cape
Foreigners VCT Voluntary Counselling and Testing
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3. Strategic Overview
3.1 Vision 3.2 Mission
Vibrant, equitable and sustainable rural To initiate, facilitate, coordinate, catalyse and
communities. implement an integrated rural development
programme.
3.3 Values
Integrity
Diversity Diligence
Compassion
Transparency Honesty
Accountability Professionalism
People
focused
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3.4 Strategic Outcome Orientated Goals
Strategic Goal 1 Corporate governance and service excellence
Forster corporate governance and service excellence through
Goal Statement
compliance with the legal framework
Improve land administration for integrated and sustainable growth
Strategic Goal 2
and development
Improve land administration and spatial planning for integrated
Goal Statement
sustainable growth and development with a bias towards rural areas
Promote equitable access to and sustainable use of land for
Strategic Goal 3
development
An inclusive and equitable land dispensation with transformed
Goal Statement
patterns of land tenure and use
Strategic Goal 4 Promote sustainable rural livelihoods
Improve rural livelihoods as a result of capabilities, income and job
Goal Statement
opportunities provided
Strategic Goal 5 Improved access to services
Improve access to services in rural areas through the coordination of
Goal Statement
quality infrastructure
Strategic Goal 6 Sustainable rural enterprises and industries
Promote economically, socially and environmentally viable rural
Goal Statement
enterprises and industries
Strategic Goal 7 Restoration of Land Rights
Restoration of land rights in terms of the Restitution of Land Rights
Goal Statement
Act, as amended.
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4. Legislative and other Mandates
The constitutional and legislative mandate which • Upgrading of Land Tenure Rights Act,
informed the operations of the department in No. 112 of 1991
the financial year under review was drawn from,
The Act makes provision for the upgrading
amongst other, the following legislations:
and conversion into ownership of certain rights
graded in respect of land, as well as for the
• Deed Registries Act, No. 47 of 1937
transfer of tribal land into full ownership to a
The Act makes provision for the administration tribe.
of the land registration system and the
registration of rights in land. It requires that • Land Reform: Provision of Land and
deeds and documents be prepared and lodged Assistance Act, No. 126 of 1993
in a Deeds Registry by a Conveyancer or
This Act makes provision for the designation of
Notary Public. These deeds and documents
certain land, the regulation of the subdivision
are subjected to three levels of examination
of such land and the settlement of persons
by legally qualified personnel who scrutinise
thereon. In addition, it provides for the
the contents for accuracy and compliance with
acquisition, maintenance, planning development,
common law, case law and statutory law.
improvement and disposal of property and the
provision of financial assistance for land reform
• State Land Disposal Act, No. 48 of 1961
purposes.
The Act makes provision for the disposal of
certain State land and to prohibit the acquisition • Restitution of Land Rights Act, No. 22 of
of State land by prescription. 1994
The Act makes provision for the restitution
• Sectional Titles Act, No. 95 of 1986
of rights in land to persons or communities
The Act makes provision for the division of dispossessed of such rights after 19 June
buildings into sections and common property 1913 as a result of past racially discriminatory
and for the acquisition of separate ownership laws or practices. To administer this task, the
in sections coupled with joint ownership in Act established a Commission on Restitution
common property. It further regulates the of Land Rights and a Land Claims Court. The
transfer of ownership of sections and the Minister is authorised to purchase, acquire in
registration of sectional mortgage bonds any other manner or expropriate land or rights in
over, and real rights in, such sections. It also land for the purpose of restitution awards.
makes provision for the establishment of body
corporates to control common property.
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• Land Reform (Labour Tenants) Act, No. 3 under which the right of persons to reside on
of 1996 land may be terminated.
The Act makes provision for the security of
Planning Profession Act, No. 36 of 2002
tenure of labour tenants and those persons
The South African Council for Planners is
occupying or using land as a result of their
established under this Act. The Act makes
association with labour tenants. It also makes
provision for different categories of planners and
provision for the acquisition of land and rights in
the registration of planners and authorises the
land by labour tenants.
identification of areas of work for planners. The
Act seeks to protect the public from unethical
• Communal Property Associations Act,
practices and to ensure a high standard of
No. 28 of 1996
professional conduct and integrity.
The Act makes provision for communities to
form juristic persons, to be known as communal • Professional and Technical Surveyors
property associations, in order to acquire, hold Act, No. 40 of 1984
and manage property on a basis agreed to by
The Act makes provision for the establishment
members of a community. This has to be done in
of a South African Council for Professional and
terms of a written constitution.
Technical Surveyors, as well as the registration
of professional surveyors, professional
• Land Survey Act, No. 8 of 1997
surveyors in training, surveyors, survey
technicians and survey technicians in training.
The Act makes provision for the regulation of the
survey of land in South Africa.
• Spatial Data Infrastructure Act, No. 54 of
2003
• Extension of Security of Tenure Act, No.
62 of 1997
The Act makes provision for an electronic
metadata catalogue and for the determination of
The Act makes provision for the facilitation of
standards and prescriptions with regard to the
long-term security of land tenure, to regulate the
facilitation of the sharing of spatial information.
conditions of residence on certain land and to
regulate the conditions on and circumstances
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