Compensation-in-kind land policy raises eyebrows

PIC: KEOAGILE BONANG
PIC: KEOAGILE BONANG

Early last year, Mogoditshane Sub-Land Board announced that when one surrenders his or her ploughing field, he or she would get six residential plots as compensation. This was coined into a policy called compensation-in-kind. While residents ululated at the development, a new trend of land grabbers emerged and the policy has since been paused. 

Some critics question the Mogoditshane Sub-Land Board’s system stating that it goes against the one-man-two-plots policy.

“There is no justification for six plots and it’s not systematic. Our people have been in the waiting list for years now and their stay in the waiting list has just been extended by this nonsense that they are engaging in. Old people are selling their ploughing fields to these vultures and the thieves go to Land Board to hand over the ploughing fields against transfer of many residential plots to their names,” one critic bemoaned.

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