The Department of Rural Development and Land Reform is happy to announce the opening of its new district office in Jane Furse on the 01 November 2016. This is due to the departmental commitment to provide better access to our services to all the people of the country and in particular Sekhukhune District.
The office building is situated opposite the Department of Home Affairs near Jane Furse Hospital in Jane Furse under Makhuduthamaga Local Municipality in the Sekhukhune District.
The purpose of this important milestone is to ensure that the people of Sekhukhune District have equal access to the services which they are entitled to receive. Through the new district office, the people of Sekhukhune district will be able to interface with officials of the department at local level rather than travelling long distance to the provincial office in Polokwane.
The decentralization of services to Sekhukhune district is the first of its kind in Limpopo, work is in progress to establish same in all other districts in the province.
The District office will amongst others provide services such as Land acquisition, property management, Land systems reform and implementation (land tenure reform), Rural Infrastructure Development (RID), Rural Enterprise and Industrial Development (REID) and Development (RECAP).
Accordingly, the Department is deploying capable officials with intimate knowledge of our mandate, our vision and mission to serve the people of Sekhukhune district.
When the Department was reconfigured in 2009 to include issues of rural development it has a special mandate to provide appropriate services to all rural people of the country. This remains a massive responsibility that the Ministry is committed to make it happen by ensuring that the services are brought closer to the people.
The Office will strengthen working relationship with recently established structures such as the District Land Reform Committees, District Agri-parks Management Committees as well as other relevant structures existing at the district level.
The key strategy of the department is agrarian transformation which is interpreted to denote rapid and fundamental change in the relations, systems and patterns of ownership and control of land, livestock, cropping and community.
In the last few years, the department has formed and implemented a number of programmes and policies that directly address and seek to advance the pace of land reform and distribution.
