Landboard compounds Tsolamosese land troubles
Nnasaretha Kgamanyane | Monday May 5, 2014 14:59
Speaking at a Kgotla meeting in Tsolamosese recently the residents who reside in Block 4 told their MP Patrick Masimolole that they were troubled by the way the sub landboard illtreats them. They pointed out that to date, they still have unresolved issues with the sub landboard.
They accuse the sub landboard officials of stealing people’s plots and selling them to people with bigger wallets.
Block 4 headman, Mantu Rantutu, told the meeting that the sub landboard had closed down several roads and pathways into Tsolamosese.
He said that this had made it difficult for them to go in and out of their yards as there were new plots everywhere. He also pointed out that the sub landboard had created conflicts amongst the residents as some plots had been allocated to more than one person.
“We thought that this time around the sub landboardwould have resolved our issues, only for it to have made matters worse.
It has blocked all the roads including the ones shown on the layout map. On some plots, you will find that two or more people fought because they were allocated the same plot,” a concerned Rantutu said.
The kgosi said that he was frustrated to learn that the old committee was dissolved while many unresolved matters remain.
A resident, Julius Mapunda, said while some people fight over the same plots, the landboard has also fueled the conflicts by putting other people’s parkings in their neighbours’ yard. He said there is no longer peace in the ward due to mistakes made by the sub landboard.
“Even though some people try to maintain peace by pleading with the sub landboard to intervene, their efforts have hit a snag. We don’t know how the Kgosi could help resolve this matter,” he said.
Commenting on the crisis, Masimolole expressed his disappointment over the sub landboard saying that he thought that it had resolved land issues in Tsolamosese.
He said that he knew that things were going well in the ward as he was told that people were compensated while bana ba masimo (special compensation for people whose parents owned the fields in today Tsolamosese) were given plots.å