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Record W7128714399 · doi:10.4314/jsasa.v57i1.8

Myths and realities of land registration in Zanzibar

2024· article· W7128714399 on OpenAlexfundno aff
Abdul-Nasser Hikmany

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of the South African Society of Archivists · 2024
Typearticle
Language
FieldAgricultural and Biological Sciences
TopicLand Rights and Reforms
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersOntario Council on Graduate Studies, Council of Ontario Universities
KeywordsLand registrationAdjudicationCommissionGovernment (linguistics)PopulationNarrativeQualitative researchLand administration

Abstract

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In a developing state, such as Zanzibar, registration of lands is not a laid-back method for the government to completely finance. Different approaches have been introduced and undertaken by the government of Zanzibar to fully reap the benefits of land registration. These however remain a myth, as what was expected from registering at least half of Zanzibar has not yielded the exact outcome. The government initiatives consist of enacting proper legislation, reforming the land policy, introducing national agendas and receiving foreign financial contribution. Based on the policies, laws and literatures, this study assessed the most appropriate framework upon which lands can be registered reliably and speedily. The qualitative data analysis method was applied, as this was purely traditional doctrinal legal research. This study used a case study design and specifically focused on the appraisal of the land registration records in Zanzibar. The targeted population for the interviews was the employees under the Commission for Lands responsible for land adjudication and registration. From the population of 195, a total of 27 officers were purposively sampled, nine of which were officers on land adjudication and the remaining 18 were on land registration. Qualitative data was analysed by narrative analysis, which seeks to understand the experiences and perspectives. The findings of the study are presented in narrative and descriptive reporting form. The results showed that the reality on the ground remains to be alarming as less than 10% of the land has currently been registered. The results further showed that the Office of the Registrar of Lands has no leading role in land registration, lack of institutional support, non-applicability of physical planning standards prior to registration, expensive land survey methods, limited application of electronic facilities, human resources and financial capacity. In order to reach the objective of the government on registering all lands of Zanzibar, this study recommends improvement of the Office of the Registrar of Lands, integrating planning standards, choosing cheaper demarcation costs and most importantly introducing electronic land registration system.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.724
Threshold uncertainty score0.244

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.001
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.013
GPT teacher head0.218
Teacher spread0.205 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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