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noted above!. are presently administered in terms of Proclamations and Government
Notices issued under Act No. 38 of 1927.
A second category of land includes black owned (freehold title! land such as Cornfields,
Matiwane's Kop and Steincoalspruit; as well as black development areas, designated
areas, transit areas, emergency camps, informal settlements (including controlled legal
squatter areas!, and illegal squatter areas. Black development areas are found on land set
aside in terms of the Black Communities Development Act No. 4 of 1984. These areas
may be rural, urban or industrial and are not destined for incorporation into KwaZulu*.
Black development areas are more properly referred to as "defined areas". In terms of the
latter Act, the Administrator of Natal is the local authority. He in turn, appoints either a
settlement officer or a township manager of the Community Services Branch of the Natal
Provincial Administration. Areas controlled under Act No. 4 of 1984 include "closer
settlements" which are found in the rural landscape, and consist of population
concentrations at given localities. Closer settlements are not usually surveyed, planned
and administered to proclaimed township standards and are thus differentiated, where for
example, allocated plots are not surveyed. Closer settlements are likewise found in
KwaZulu. The Community Services Branch is also responsible for the supply of services
(or assistance with the supply of services!, to the 17 black townships proclaimed under
the Black Local Authorities Act No. 102 of 1982. (The various administrative regions and
offices of the specific directorates of the Community Services Branch are listed in Table
J39!. Most of these townships are situated adjacent to white towns, and will soon be
merged with the relevant town to form one local authority, in terms of the Interim
Measures for Local Govemment Act No. 128 of 1991.
Designated areas (found in non-urban areas! are declared by the Administrator of Natal in
terms of the Prevention of Illegal Squatting Act No. 52 of 1951. The Act enables the
Community Services Branchto assume control of any area where informal settlement has
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A useful overview of the current legal position regarding (urban type) rural settlements, both in Natal
and KwaZulu, is the following: Totman, D., Pallett, E.A., A'Bear, D.R. and Murphy, C., 1994.
Options for rural settlements: the plaming and legal context - a status !I!J!!. report, INR Investigational
Report No. B8, Institute of Natural Resources, University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 32 p. See also,
Bekker, J.C., 1991. Land for black housing: land tenure systems, In: Bekker, J.C., Creighton, D.V.,
Mavuso, J.S.A., Steyn, J.H.. Strelitz, J., Treisman, S.H., Van Niekerk, G.S., Beets, H.W. and
Wiechers, M., The Housing Challenge: Options and Means, Report No. ASSIBB5-22, Co-operative
Programme: Affordable Social Security, Human Sciences Research Council, Pretoria, p. 23 - 35,