Zimbabwe's national land administration platform — property search, eMaps, e-lodgement and geodetic services, fully online
The Department of the Surveyor General is the statutory custodian of every cadastral survey in Zimbabwe — the authority on land boundaries, tenure and geodetic reference for the whole country. That custodianship lived in paper records inside two physical offices, in Harare and Bulawayo. In support of the Presidential title deeds and settlement regularization programme, the Department needed its entire land administration workflow taken online: the eCadastre.
- Client
- Department of the Surveyor General
- Government of Zimbabwe · Land Administration
- Delivered At
- Techsys
- My Role
- Lead Developer
Districts searchable online
Service modules in production
Physical offices it replaced as the only access point
- End-to-end platform architecture — a multi-app Django system spanning the public portal, cadastral services, geodesy, mapping, e-lodgement, survey examination and payments
- GIS engineering: PostGIS spatial database and OpenLayers map interfaces serving nationwide topographic and cadastral layers
- Property search and document verification workflows covering all 51 districts
- Paynow payment integration for purchasing maps, datasets and survey products
- Production deployment and operations for a live government service
The eCadastre puts the Surveyor General's full service catalogue online — from a property search that returns official diagrams, to e-lodgement that lets licensed surveyors submit work for examination without travelling to Harare.
Property Search & Verification
Search any property across 51 districts and obtain its official diagram and verification — from anywhere in the world
eMaps — National Mapping Online
Full national map coverage, from the new 1:25,000 topographic series to the updated Harare street map
E-Lodgement
Surveyors submit surveys for examination digitally, with completeness checks enforced at upload
Survey Records Search
Over a century of survey records digitised and traceable, as stipulated in the Land Survey Act (20:12)
Geodetic Services
National geodetic datasets in digital form — the spatial backbone of the multi-purpose cadastre
Billing & Payments
Registered users buy maps, datasets and products online with secure, instant delivery
Every land service, one portal
Six services, fully online
A public record the nation can query
Live in production for the Government of Zimbabwe at zimcadastre.co.zw
Districts covered by online property search
Digital service modules live in production
Access to services that used to need an office visit
Carefully selected technologies for performance, scalability, and developer experience.
Backend
Core technologies powering the application's foundation and user experience.
GIS & Data
Payments
Infrastructure
Technologies
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