{"id":236824,"date":"2026-06-19T17:52:57","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T15:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-unvalidated-title-deeds-may-not-be-recognised-in-future-transactions-says-registrar\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T17:52:57","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T15:52:57","slug":"zimbabwe-unvalidated-title-deeds-may-not-be-recognised-in-future-transactions-says-registrar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-unvalidated-title-deeds-may-not-be-recognised-in-future-transactions-says-registrar\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Unvalidated Title Deeds May Not Be Recognised in Future Transactions &#8211; Says Registrar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">Chief Registrar of the Department of Deeds, Companies and Intellectual Property, Willie Mushayi, has urged property owners to validate and securitise their title deeds, saying the programme is intended to safeguard property rights and strengthen the integrity of Zimbabwe&#8217;s land records.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Mushayi dismissed fears that the exercise could result in the loss of property, stressing that the initiative is designed to secure ownership records rather than deprive citizens of their assets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">&#8220;We gave people 24&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606190316.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Registrar of the Department of Deeds, Companies and Intellectual Property, Willie Mushayi, has urged property owners to validate and securitise their title deeds, saying the programme is intended to safeguard property rights and strengthen the integrity of Zimbabwe&#8217;s land records. Mushayi dismissed fears that the exercise could result in the loss of property, stressing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,18737,5760,257,22957,14285,254,6675,16328,54656,4686,421],"class_list":["post-236824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-deeds","tag-future","tag-news","tag-recognised","tag-registrar","tag-south-africa-today","tag-title","tag-transactions","tag-unvalidated","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}