Plot repossessions should be humane

Thursday, September 03, 2015

As announced by the Francistown City mayor Sylvia Muzila last week that the council would repossess undeveloped Self Help Housing Agency (SHHA) plots, the process has kicked in. The defaulters’ names were splashed in the Daily News of yesterday.

This process, however, did not come as a shock, as plot owners were long warned. The FCC is also not at fault for repossessing the plots. The law says they should, if plot owners fail to develop the land within two to five years of being allocated.

While there is no argument about the legality of the process, our problem is what the policy is capable of doing, or undoing.

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