LAND LAW: SVG 415

MIDLANDS STATE UNIVERSITY

FACULTY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

DEPARTMENT OF SURVEYING AND GEOMATICS

Topic Reading Materials Objectives Portfolio Questions

Reader is attached
Unit 1: Read from To understand How does the land
Introduction/Historical the land reform question in
A brief history of land
Evolution of Land Law in trajectories Zimbabwe
in Zimbabwe by
Zimbabwe demonstrate the
Charles Mutasa
significance of law?
The Historical To justify the In order to respond
Context of Land in significance of to this question you
Zimbabwe law in the land ought to have done
question of Unit 2 too (20
The politics of land Marks)
Zimbabwe
reform in Africa
Chapter 1 and Chapter Draw lessons from
2 Chapter 1-Chapter
To identify key 3, which support
Land reform in factors that you in establishing
Zimbabwe by Neil H drive the land the relevance of
Thomas question in land law. Attend to
Zimbabwe this question after
Read from
reading unit1, unit
Trajectory of 2, unit 3 (20 Marks)
To illustrate law
Land Reform in
as a mediating
Post-Colonial
factor
African States
The Quest for
Sustainable
Development Submit as
and Utilization by assignment on the
3rd of March 2021.
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Unit 2: Introducing Law Read from An To understand
Introduction to the key roles of
Zimbabwean Law by law
Lovemore Madhuku
(Chapter 1)
Legal Pluralism Legal Pluralism in To define the Identify different
Theory and Practice concept of legal archetypes of legal
Geoffrey Swenson pluralism and its pluralism in the
 2018 relevance in a document and
pluralistic justify their
society. To significance (20
demonstrate Marks)
different
architypes of
legal pluralism Assignment 2:
Submit on the 7th of
March
Sources of Law In Read from: To distinguish Compare and
Zimbabwe An Introduction to different sources contrast different
Zimbabwean Law by of law, their sources of law in
Lovemore Madhuku strengths and Zimbabwe, drawing
(Chapter 2) weaknesses the costs and
benefits of each
To identify the
The legal system of source. (20 Marks)
properties of
Zimbabwe by
Roman-Dutch
J A Bennett
Law and
Submit as open
Roman-Dutch and book test on the 9th
English common law: of March
the indispensable law
in Zimbabwe by Brian
Dube

Unit 3 Legal Concept of Read from the maxim To understand

Land "cujus est solum ejus different maxims
usque ad coelum" as of land and their
The extended significance
applied in aviation by conception
of the term land is
Yehuda Abramovitch
sometimes expressed by
reference to two Latin
maxims cujus est solum ejus
est... quousque
tandem? By Klein

Quic quid plantatur

solo solo cedit by
Mof’Oluwawo O
Mojolaoluwa
Unit 4 Land tenure Read from what is Statutory tenure
systems in Zimbabwe land tenure by FAO systems from
To understand
Customary tenure
the key
systems (20 Marks)
Read from Changes characteristics
in “customary” of customary
land tenure systems in tenure and
Tutorial Question
Africa by Lorenzo statutory tenure
Cotula Will be discussed
Section: What is online
customary land To distinguish
tenure only Customary
tenure from
Statutory tenure
Read from
Land Rights and
Tenure Security in
Zimbabwe’s
Post Fast Track Land
Reform Programme

Matondi and Dekker

2011

Read from colonial

and postcolonial
reconstructions of
customary land tenure
in Zimbabwe by
Lawrence Tshuma
1998

Read from Read from

professor J.
Zevenbergen’
Customary Tenure
Legal Pluralism

Unit 5 Land registration Read from To understand

Systems of Land the key concepts
Registration by Jaap of Land
Zevenbergen 2003 registration.
Chapter 2

Read from Two land To distinguish

 registration systems different means
By ĐẶNG ANH of perceiving
QUÂN from page 19- evidence on land
26 ownership

Read from the Deeds To understand

Registry Act Part III processes of
TO Part VII land registration
in Zimbabwe

To understand
the role of a
Read from Land land surveyor in
Survey Act & Land the land
Surveyors Act registration
process

Read from
Legal Practitioners To understand
Act key expectations
and ethics of a
land surveyor in
the land
registration
process.

To Understand
the key
expectations of
conveyancer and
ethics binding
Unit 6 Summary