Batlokwa Owe P1.3m In Lease Payments
Pini Bothoko | Monday March 20, 2017 17:19
Maele revealed this at a Kgotla meeting at Tlokweng last Thursday.
“I am pleading with you to pay your lease. Some of you here have not paid lease payments over 10- 15 years, something that worries me because this money could be used for the Ministry’s developments,” Maele said.
He said that there are so many issues that they are failing to address as the Ministry due to shortage of funds.
“Individuals and churches are failing to pay their lease; some have not paid for over 10- 15 years. This is not good. I am pleading with you to start paying the lease of your plots,” Maele said.
He also requested residents to develop their plots because some people have the tendency of complaining about land shortage, but when allocated plots they take years to develop them.
“We are planning to repossess undeveloped plots from the owners and allocate them to other people who are in need of plots.
Our wish is to see Tlokweng developing and that can only occur when people develop their plots,” Maele said.
He said one is given five years to have developed residential plots after allocation, three years for fields and a year for commercial plots.
Maele also encouraged residents who failed to register their plots to do so because the system will simplify the application of the title deeds of their plots and reduce costs.
He said people have been losing a lot of money paying lawyers, but with the new plots certificates they will not go through that process.
“I must thank you because you have registered your plots in numbers during the recent land registration. About 11,325 plots have been registered here, and I would like to thank you for your cooperation during this exercise,” Maele said.
He revealed that Government is currently designing new plot certificates in Germany.
“In the past majority of people forged their plots certificates and sold one plot to many people, which was against the law.
With the new certificates, there will be no forgery like in the past because they will be installed with security features to be only detected by flourescent lights like our pula notes,” Maele said.
Meanwhile, the paramount chief of Batlokwa, Puso Gaborone raised a concern of shortage of land in his village.
“Batlokwa do not have residential plots. They do not have plots to rear their livestock not even to plough whilst majority of them are farmers,” Kgosi Gaborone said.
He also raised a concern of the confusion that exists in their village concerning their boundary with the city of Gaborone.
“What is our village boundary? Is it the Notwane River or what? I am pleading with you (the Minister) to state what exactly separates us, or what is the boundary,” he said.