A task team consisting of the national Department of Public Works, the provincial Departments of Public Works, the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform, the Deeds Office and the Surveyor-General had been established. This team is working to fast track the process. Although 32 contract workers had been deployed to the regional offices to assist with processing documents for vesting, this was not enough when one considered the backlog of properties to be registered. If the Department's deadline of finalising the vesting process by 2013 was to be achieved, additional capacity would be required both within the Department and the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform.