INSIGHTS INTO THE POLICY AND LEGISLATION ON LAND REFORM

Symposium on Land Redistribution in Southern Africa

IN ZIMBABWE & THEIR IMPLICATION TO SURVEYORS.

PID  :  124639

来源: CEUR

【 摘 要 】

The land reform program in Zimbabwe has generated a lot of debate and controversyboth locally and internationally. It has been hailed as a total success by some circlesespecially the local media and a total failure by others particularly internationalanalysts. These varied judgments are based on results of implementation of, or failureto implement some of the policies on land set out since independence in 1980. LandManagement and Administration experts, among them, Land Surveyors, LandEconomists, Lawyers, Valuers and related land practitioners fall within the band ofprofessionals charged with implementation of land policy. This paper looks at the insights into some of the policies and legislation inZimbabwe’s Land Reform and Redistribution Programme and argues that theirimplementation could have been enhanced through a more coordinated approach thatcalls on board most of the stakeholders driving the exercise. The paper also seeks tohighlight some of the insights into these policies and show how the technical expertisewithin the fields of traditional land surveying, land valuation, land administration andgeoinformation can be harnessed to ensure successful implementation.The paper concludes by arguing that the events leading to the infamous ‘fast track’and seizures of private property were linked to some of the policy implementationfailures covering the two decades of land reform in Zimbabwe.