Deeds office registers 25 177 property documents

CHAMWE KAIRA

The deeds office registered and archived 25 177 title deeds and other deed documents during the 2025/26 financial year, while capturing 14 619 transfer and bond deed documents as part of efforts to digitise property records.

According to the ministry of agriculture, fisheries, water and land reform’s annual performance report, a further 8 198 sectional titles were registered and filed during the financial year.

The ministry collected N$4.1 million in revenue from providing stakeholders with information relating to immovable and movable properties.

Under its land management programme, the ministry also bound and archived 529 volumes of registered deeds and sectional title documents, covering 75 schemes.

These comprised 262 transfer volumes, 205 bond volumes, nine VA volumes, 12 antenuptial contract (ANC) volumes, 14 K volumes, three PA volumes and 24 BC volumes.

The ministry said it had revised its performance targets to focus on capturing and scanning deed documents and real property rights as part of the redevelopment of the Deeds Electronic System.

The digitisation project achieved 20% of its revised target during the reporting period.

System change requests were implemented, while specifications for user training, data cleaning and system population were finalised. Procurement for the related activities was also completed.

Practical training on the Computerised Deeds Registration System was provided to ministry staff and conveyancers.

Historical statistics on deeds and property rights were compiled to support further digitisation and a request for temporary staff.

The ministry acquired 24 farms covering 95 535.1456 hectares at a total cost of N$238.7 million for resettlement and agricultural development.

A total of 6 298 communal land rights were registered during the financial year. Omusati recorded the highest number, at 1 772, followed by Ohangwena with 1 191, Oshikoto with 937 and Oshana with 924.

Other registrations included 342 in Erongo, 306 in Omaheke, 274 in Zambezi, 162 in //Kharas, 143 in Otjozondjupa, 132 in Kunene, 119 in Hardap, 13 in Kavango East and 10 in Kavango West. Khomas recorded no registrations.

Under the Flexible Land Tenure System, the ministry handed over 175 landhold titles to beneficiaries in Outapi,

It also facilitated the surveying and approval of land portions in Kamanjab, Karibib, Lüderitz and Benguela Extension 3.

A further 36 certificates of registered titles for block erven were issued, comprising 18 for Otjiwarongo Municipality and 18 for Mariental Municipality.

The ministry also reported progress on Namibia’s geodetic infrastructure, including the erection of new boundary monuments at Beacons 1 and 2 along the Namibia-Zambia international boundary at Katima Mulilo.

The 11-kilometre boundary segment was surveyed and densified, while the setting out of the centreline and a 30-metre buffer zone along approximately 89 kilometres of the Katima Mulilo-Singalamwe segment was completed.