Farmer appeals High Court judgement

Phale had sued the Ngwato Land Board (NLB) for cancelling his certificate of customary land grant dated June 6, 2001.Since 2008 two Mmashoro farmers and the NLB have been at loggerheads for a farmland with a borehole by the name of Dene in the outskirts of Mmashoro.

In 2013, Phale appealed a Palapye Land Tribunal judgement at the Lobatse High Court after it ruled that the disputed land belonged to the NLB, and that the plot was allocated fraudulently. In 2001, the 58-year-old Phale says he was allocated two water points; one in June by the name Dene and another in August by the name Dene-Mmashoro. He developed the first one, which is currently operating whilst the other point is still undeveloped due to controversies surrounding its allocation.