The bruising fight for land

The story repeats itself everytime. One Land Board or the other calls for applications.  Hungry land-seekers sleep at offices and sometimes riot in the morning. No amount of warnings and pleas not to sleep or riot make a difference. It has become so bad that Land Boards frequently engage riot police when the time for applications arrives.

By the last count, about 1.1 million Batswana were on waiting lists for land across the country.  Many have been waiting for decades.  They have had children while waiting.  Been married and divorced.  Many have even died.