Real Estate Investor Magazine South Africa December/ January 2018/2019 | Page 13

KHAYA LAM
Johann & Gaynor Rupert standing with new title owners in Stellenbosch
promotes sound economic policies and the principles of good
law. It is financed by membership subscriptions, donations and
sponsorships.
As a think tank it seeks and puts forward solutions to some
of the country’s most pressing problems: unemployment,
poverty, growth, education, health care, electricity supply,
and more. The FMF was instrumental in the post-apartheid
negotiations and directly influenced the Constitutional
Commission to include the property rights clause: a critical
cornerstone of economic freedom.
Khaya Lam - 10 000 Title Deeds Drive
A generation after apartheid, most black people do not yet
own their land yet Khaya Lam delivers the real economic
empowerment of home ownership to township residents.
They were previously deprived of their dignity and rights
under apartheid, by facilitating the conversion of council
owned rental properties into freehold title - at no cost to the
recipients.
For more than 40 years the FMF has championed the cause
of converting the numerous forms of Apartheid title found in
the townships to full, unambiguous ownership for the current
tenants. Here are very real projects that were made possible
by the generosity of businessman Johann Rupert and his wife
Gaynor. They have donated initially more than R15 million as
significant sponsors of the Free Market Foundation’s (FMF)
Khaya Lam (My Home) Land Reform Project.
Khaya Lam (First initiative 100 titles)
On the 16th  January 2018  a historic occasion took place in
the Stellenbosch Town Hall where 117 full ownership titles
together with the Stellenbosch executive mayor Councillor
Gesie van Deventer and Gaynor Rupert to tenants of council
properties.
Khaya Lam (Second initiative 70 titles)
On 16 November, 70 residents of the Karoo town of Aberdeen
walked into the presentation hall as tenants and walked out as
home owners, with full freehold title
Khaya Lam (Third initiative - 326 titles)
On 3 December, in Stellenbosch, Rupert and his wife
Gaynor  presented more than 326 title deeds  that they have
sponsored to the ‘new’ home owners,
*FMF funding
FMF seeks and accepts both institutional and project funding
from individuals and organisations with shared general or
project-specific objectives.
FMF has immutable principles; our constitution prescribes and
proscribes in transparent, unambiguous, consistent and enduring
terms what we must and may do. Since we are principle-based,
our services, but not our principles are for sale.
For more information or to make a donation visit www.
freemarketfoundation.com
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