IMPLICATIONS OF PROGRESSIVE TITLE REGISTRATION FOR CADASTRAL INFORMATION PRODUCTION CASE STUDY OF NAMIBIA

Abstract

Under the premise that land administration is one of the necessary components of sustainable development and better land management, this article reviews the effects of the implementation of a progressive titling approach on land administration components, such as cadastral acts and organisations, cadastral survey regulations and processes and cadastral databases. The study is largely based on the experiences of implementation of progressive titling in Namibia, where there are changes in both the legal acts governing titling as well as in cadastral survey acts and regulations. The article comes to the conclusion that the progressive titling approach as proposed for the Namibian context and its subsequent implications for cadastral information production shows that there is a need to rethink the structure and objective of cadastral surveying and a need to look for alternative models for cadastral information systems which support land administration.