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n Am I BI A u n IVER s ITY
OF SCIEnCE Ano TECHnOLOGY
FACULTYOF ENGINEERINGAND THE BUILTENVIRONMENT
DEPARTMENTOF LANDAND SPATIALSCIENCES
QUALIFICATION(S): BACHELOR/DIPLOMA - PROPERTYSTUDIES, LAND ADMINISTRATION,
GEOMATICS, AND TOWN AND REGIONAL PLANNING
QUALIFICATION(S)CODE: 08BOPS, 06DIPS,
07BLAM, 06DGEO, 06DGEM, NQF LEVEL: 5
07BGEO,07BGEM,07BTAR
COURSECODE: LTS520S
COURSENAME: LAND TENURE SYSTEMS
EXAMSSESSION:NOVEMBER 2024
PAPER:
THEORY
DURATION: 3 HOURS
MARKS:
100
FIRSTOPPORTUNITY EXAMINATION QUESTION PAPER
EXAMINER(S) PROF UCHENDU E. CHIGBU
MODERATOR: MR AMIN ISSA
INSTRUCTIONS
1. Read the entire question paper before answering the Questions.
2. Please write clearly and legibly!
3. The question paper contains a total of 4 questions.
4. You must answer ALLQUESTIONS.
5. Make sure your Student Number is on the EXAMINATION BOOK(S).
PERMISSIBLEMATERIALS
1. None
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Question 1
For each of the following statements indicate whether it is 'TRUE' or 'FALSE'. Each correct answer
carries 2 marks.
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a) Land tenure exists within a regime of legal, institutional and procedural systems.
b) In a customary regime of land tenure, ownership is vested in international corporations and
foreign governments.
c) Usufruct rights are the rights to use land for cultivation, grazing and residential purposes.
d) Different people may hold one or several land rights simultaneously.
e) Control rights are the right to make decisions on how the land should be used, and what
crops to plant etc.
f) Land tenure is the relationship people share with land and its associated natural resources.
g) In a leasehold, ownership of land is in perpetuity.
h) Complimentary interests in land exist when different parties share the same interests in the
same parcel of land, e.g., common rights to grazing.
i) Overlapping interests in land is when several parties are allocated different rights to the
same parcel of land, e.g., conservancies in communal areas, family members.
j) Overriding interests in land is when a sovereign power (state or community) has powers to
allocate, cancel and reallocate.
k) The right to exclude others from a parcel of land constitutes a land right.
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I) The exercise of land rights and ownership has no implications in the way in which we
develop urban and rural areas.
m) The environmental concept of land considers land as a place requiring management to
preserve its capacity to sustain life, carrying restrictions and responsibilities.
n) Transferable rights entail right to sell, mortgage or convey land to others through inter-
community allocations, inheritance and reallocation of control rights.
o) Competing interests occur when different parties contest the same interests in the same
parcel of land - source of land disputes.
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Question 2
Identify (and list) five (5) challenges related to land in Namibia. Briefly explain measures that can
be used to solve each of the challenges you identified. Each challenge listed and explained carries
4 marks.
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Question 3
In one or two sentences, answer the following questions. Each correct question carries 2 marks.
a) What is tenure security?
b) What do you understand by the term bundle of land rights?
c) Why do we register land rights?
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d) Differentiate between "land access" and "land availability."
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e) List the two tenure types that the Flexible Land Tenure Act (2012) provide?
f) What are the five ways a person can access land?
g) Differentiate between "land adjudication" and "land expropriation."
h) Why was the flexible land tenure system introduced in Namibia?
i) What do you understand by "continuum of land rights?"
j) State the two types of reforms that the Namibian government is implementing to correct the
past imbalances in land distribution.
k) Name two land tools.
I) What is informal settlement upgrading?
m) What makes land a major factor in the development of any country?
n) Identify 2 obligations/responsibilities that the government imposes on property owners or
users?
o) How can you distinguish/differentiate between rural and urban areas in Namibia?
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Question 4
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Study the diagram shown above carefully. Answer all questions below based on the information
depicted in the diagram. Each challenge listed and explained carries 2 marks.
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a) What does the diagram represent?
b) Considering the positions of the "pavement dweller" and "squatter owner" in the diagram,
who is more secure, why?
c) Who is the most secure in the diagram?
d) Why is the freeholder identified as no. 10 in the diagram?
e) The right to "dispose" lies with the freeholder. Why?
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f) What can a pavement dweller do to become a squatter tenant?
g) What is the difference between a lease-holder and a free-holder?
h) All tenure categories have "occupy/use" right. Why?
i) Who is the most insecure in the diagram?
j) What do the bars in the diagram represent in the context of land tenure?
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