Chobe Reduces Plot Sizes

FRANCISTOWN: Chobe Land Board says the district is experiencing acute shortage of land for human settlement and have resorted to reducing plot sizes to mitigate the challenge.

The revelation was made by senior officials from the land board in Francistown on Friday during a press briefing in a bid to foster relations with the media as well as taking some of their services to the public.  

Chobe district is made up of Kasane Township and eight villages of Pandamatenga, Lesoma, Kazungula in the east, Mabele, Kavimba, Kachikau, Satau, and Parakarungu in the west. They said the land shortage is worsened by the fact that only 26% of the land in the district is reserved for human settlements and the rest for wildlife.

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