page_title: Flexible Land Tenure System (Namibia)
section_title: Blockerf
hierarchical_section_title: Flexible Land Tenure System (Namibia) / The Flexible Land Tenure System / Blockerf
caption_attribution_description: English: Flexible Land Tenure System - Land Hold Title Rights on a blockerf
context_page_description: The Flexible Land Tenure System is an innovative concept to provide affordable security of tenure to inhabitants in informal settlements in Namibia.
  The basic idea of the Flexible Land Tenure System is to establish an interchangeable tenure registration system parallel and complementary to the current formal system of freehold tenure. The concept is derived from the need by the Government to create upgradeable alternative land tenure options to informal settlements, which complements the current formal system of freehold tenure.
  The system was formally introduced through the Flexible Land Tenure Act, 2012 and tasks the Namibian Ministry of Land Reform with its implementation.
context_section_description: The blockerf (pl. blockerven) is defined as a piece of land on which a starter title scheme or a land hold title scheme is established. The term is derived from erf (pl. erven), the legal expression (Afrikaans) defined in Namibia's Deeds Registries Act to describe "a piece of land registered in a deeds registry as an erf, lot, plot or stand".
  Before the establishment of a starter title scheme or a land hold title scheme is finally considered, the land concerned must be subdivided or consolidated by means of cadastral survey in such a manner that the flexible land tenure scheme concerned would be situated on one portion of land (blockerf) registered as such in the deeds registry and any mortgage, usufruct, fideicommissum or similar right on that piece of land must be cancelled. Any survey of blockerven has to be carried out by professional land surveyors.
caption: Flexible Land Tenure System - Land Hold Title Rights on a blockerf
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