No Access to Deeds Office-GOVERNMENT PLEASE DEVELOP UNUSED PUBLIC SECTOR LAND AND BUILDINGS

While we swimming in the tide of dead economy may government work to at least give local Swazis the chance to build  at least 20 000 homes by 2015.

With such direction the government will achieve through the release of the land farms it is holding on …It seems like the country does not care to improve these infrastructures  for commercial purposes . The amount of land is holding on is more than twice the size of Mbabane and Manzini combined. May the honourable Minister of Housing move a step further to help Swazis across the country reclaim and develop the hundreds of acres of unused public sector land and buildings which could be used to deliver schemes the communities want to see in their areas.  

This will help empower Swazis and be able to request a sale of public land and buildings by filling in a simple and user friendly forms which will replace the current system that benefits the country’s cabinet which has been a system which has been obscure and restrictive on the ordinary Swazi who are still dreaming of benefitting from the country’s natural resource.

My approach on this matter is a call for an improved process for requesting the sale of public land and property which will be one way of applying for land to be released by government departments and will also apply to land owned by councils and other public bodies.

Let the ordinary Swazi have access to the details and maps about land owned by government and councils and other public bodies so we as Swazis we can see the unused land thus request its sale thus fulfil the dreams of the country’s constitution of forming a bedrock of the Community Right to Claim Land as a Swazi Citizen.

It is no hidden factor that government is the country’s biggest landlords , so at a time we desperately need homes it has a critical obligation of making these sites available for developers and communities.

It is disheartening that Government has not  quickly the ambitious challenge to release land to the Swazis who do not have access to land and decent houses.

In the next three years I will surely preach the same gospel and ensure that this unused land is available for us ordinary Swazis to purchases through the same discounts our current Cabinet enjoyed.

I am just not pleased that local communities do not have an option to improve their local communities by developing unused land and buildings instead we are forced to battle through quagmire of bureaucratic obstruction and indifference.

Lets hope as from the next quarter the ordinary Swazi will have a simple access to the unused land and thus enjoy our right to development.