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Student Number : 0217201P - MA (Housing) dissertation - School of Architecture and Planning - Faculty of Humanities / South Africa currently has the fastest growing HIV/AIDS pandemic in the world. Against this backdrop it is therefore not suprising to learn that 4 million children or about 10% of the entire South African population will be orphaned by the year 2015 (Davis, 2002:52; Whiteside & Sunter, 2000 in Madhavan, [2000:1]). These projections paint a clear picture of the challenges that lie ahead for accommodating and sustaining a prevailing family structure of households that are headed by children who are left behind by parents succumbing to the ravages of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Because of their vulnerable age and laws and policies that do not fully cater for their needs, these children become victims of exploitation and abuse and forfeit their human rights enshrined in the Bill of Rights of the South African Constitution (1996). This study aims to unearth the plight of these children. In particular it will focus on the right of entitlement to family property when their parents die or are debilitated by HIV/AIDS related diseases. It concludes by challenging government and other stakeholders to review existing policies and to ensure that legislation is in place that mitigates against any form of violence, abuse, trauma or ostracism to which orphaned children are subjected to by unscrupulous caregivers.

Syftet med studien är att ta fram ett grundläggande material för vidare undersökning avseende högre kvalitet vid taxeringsförfarandet i samband med justering av taxeringsvärden när väg fram till småhusfastigheter saknas. Detta då det idag inte finns några riktlinjer kring denna justering. Målet med studien är att undersöka vilken värdeinverkan avsaknad av väg till småhusfastigheter kan anses ha på marknadsvärdet, och vad som gör denna värdeinverkan svår- eller lättbedömd. Metoderna som tillämpats i studien avser en kvantitativ- samt kvalitativ undersökning. Den kvantitativa undersökningen har genomförts i form av telefonintervjuer med mäklare och fastighetsvärderare. Detta för att få en generell bild av hur marknaden anses uppfatta förhållandet avsaknad av väg. Denna undersökning kompletterades med en kvalitativ intervjuundersökning för att erhålla en djupare förståelse för hur marknadsvärdet påverkas av detta förhållande, samt hur denna värdebedömning går till. Resultatet av undersökningen pekar på att en marknadsvärdeinverkan går att påvisa i de fall då småhusfastigheter saknar tillgång till väg. Inverkan på marknadsvärdet är svårbedömt då den varierar efter olika fastighetsförhållanden, marknadsvärdenivåer och anläggningskostnader. Resultatet visar även att, redan vid ett avstånd på över 100 meter från fastigheten till närmsta körbara väg, kan inverkan på marknadsvärdet anses ligga över 20 procent. Slutsatserna utifrån resultatet är att en avsaknad av väg i de flesta fall är en värdesänkande faktor. Vidare skulle tydligare riktlinjer kring värdebedömningen av detta förhållande underlätta värderingsförfarandet. / The purpose of the study is to serve as a material for further investigation concerning higher quality of tax procedures related to the adjustment of assessed values when there is no road to single- family houses. This is because there are currently no guidelines for this type of adjustment. The aim of the study is to investigate the value of the impact an absence of a road to single-family houses may have on its market value, and what makes this value of the impact difficult or easy to assess. The methods applied in the study concerns a quantitative- and qualitative research. The quantitative survey was conducted in the form of telephone interviews with brokers and property appraisers. This was done to obtain a general picture of how the market considers the condition of an absence of road. This survey was supplemented with qualitative interviews to obtain a deeper understanding of how the market value is influenced by this condition, and how this value assessment is done. The results of the survey indicate that an impact of the market value can be demonstrated for those single- family houses which have an absence of road. The impact of the market value is difficult to assess because it varies by different property conditions, market values and facility costs. The result also shows that, even at a distance of over 100 meters from the property to the nearest drivable road, the impact on the market value is considered to be above 20 percent. The conclusions from the results are that an absence of road, in the most cases, is a value lowering factor. Furthermore would clearer guidelines, for value assessment, facilitate the process of the valuation.

Philosophiae Doctor - PhD / The thesis examines the characteristics of land tenure among African families with freehold title who trace their relationship to the land to their forebears who first acquired title in the mid-nineteenth century. The evidence was drawn from two field sites in the Eastern Cape, Fingo Village, Grahamstown and Rabula in the Keiskammahoek district of the former Ciskei. The evidence, supported by evidence in other Anglophone countries, shows that African familial relationships reminiscent of ‘customary’ concepts of the family, were not, and are not extinguished when title is issued, though they are altered. Africans with title regard the land as family property held by unilineal descent groups, challenging the western notion of one-to-one proprietal relationships to the land and its devolution. By exploring the intersection between tenure, use and devolution of land, the main findings reveal that local conceptions of land and use diverge considerably from the formal, legal notion of title. Title holders conceive of their land as the property of all recognised members of a patrilineally defined descent group symbolised by the family name. Because freehold is so intimately linked with inheritance, the findings significantly illuminate the social field of gender and kinship. The implications of the findings are that differing concepts of the ‘family’ and ‘property’ are fundamental to the lack of ‘fit’ between the common-law concept of ownership and what I term in the thesis ‘African freehold’. The thesis dissects the implications of culturally constructed variability in familial identities for recognition and transmission of property. Title is legally regulated by Eurocentric notions of both family and property, which lead to significant divergence between western and African interpretations of ownership, transmission and spatial division of land. The deficiencies of the South African legal mindset with regard to property law are thus fundamentally affected by the deficiencies in recognising the broader field of gender and kinship relations. The findings fundamentally challenge the dualistic paradigm currently prevalent in much of South African legal thinking, since the factors that are found to affect land tenure relationships cannot be reduced to the binary distinctions that are conventionally drawn in law, such as ‘western’ vs. ‘customary’ or ‘individual’ vs. iii ‘communal’ tenure. Instead, the important sources of validation of social (importantly, familial) and property relationships are found to be common to all property relationships, but are arranged and calibrated according to different normative patterns of recognition. In the case of the subjects in the field sites, these do not fit into the main ‘categories’ of property defined in law. Neither of the main bodies of official law, the common law and customary law, adequately characterise the relationships among the African freehold title holders. The source of legitimation is, therefore, not the ‘law’ but locally understood norms and practices. The findings suggest that the practices of the freeholders, derived from constructed ideas of kinship and descent, have relevance for a wide range of diverse African land tenure arrangements and categories, and not only ‘African freehold’. The findings therefore have significant implications for law reform more broadly. The thesis suggests that law reform should move away from models that do not match reality, and in particular should heed the warnings that titling policies as presently designed are particularly poorly aligned with the realities presented in the thesis.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T20:20:58Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Renata Paccola Mesquita.pdf: 850022 bytes, checksum: c34c66db7e7bf97076d90e4aa0a48fc6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-06-06 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / This paper has the objective of demonstratin, through doctrinal and jurisprudential analysis, the effect of fundamental rights in private relations, demonstrating, thereby, the necessity to harmonize principles considered eminently civilians with the constitutional norm. In this way, we start from the analysis of fundamental rights by inserting them in particular relations with strong reflection on the principle of private autonomy, who is relativize. In this context, it seeks to analyze the jurisprudence of the national courts, in order to contextualize the discussion, bringing out the occurrence of divergence between the judiciary and the understanding of national doctrine. It is through critical analysis of specific cases that it also shows the existence of conflict between rules, with the collision of fundamental principles that must be solved in the pursuit of higher conservation interests, and by considering the principle of proportionality. Finally, through the premises and the conflict between fundamental rights and autonomy, it is analyzed the possibility, or not, to take the family property from the guarantee of rent contract, due to the art. 3, VII of Law 8.009/90, It would lose the protection of immunity, because, freely, offer his property to assure the rent obligation / O presente trabalho objetiva demonstrar, pela análise doutrinária e jurisprudencial, a eficácia dos direitos fundamentais nas relações privadas, demonstrando, com isso, a necessidade de se harmonizar princípios considerados eminentemente civis com a norma constitucional. Para tanto, parte-se da análise dos direitos fundamentais, inserido-os nas relações particulares, com forte reflexo no princípio da autonomia privada, ao ponto de relativizá-lo. Neste contexto, busca-se analisar a jurisprudência dos Tribunais Pátrios, com o fim de contextualizar a discussão, trazendo à tona a ocorrência de divergência entre o entendimento do Judiciário e da doutrina nacional. É pela análise crítica de casos concretos que se pretende, também, mostrar a existência de situações de conflito entre normas, com a colisão de princípios fundamentais, que devem ser solucionados, na busca da conservação de interesses maiores, pela ponderação e pelo princípio da proporcionalidade. Por fim, partindo das premissas levantadas e da conflituosidade entre os direitos fundamentais e a autonomia privada, faz-se a análise da (im)possibilidade de penhora do bem de família do fiador de locação que, em razão do art. 3º, VII da Lei 8.009/90, perderia a proteção da impenhorabilidade ao, livremente, ofertá-lo como garantia locatícia