Kgang Ontlametse Kgang representing the Kweneng Land Board was accused of lying, using the virus and isolation after the board failed to respond to Court documents filed by seven residents who are clashing with the board over allocation of plots. According to the applicants who are individuals and enterprises said all are lies contained in the chairperson’s utterances about their failure to respond to Court papers on time because due to being in quarantine for COVID-19 detected at their offices.
In the notice of opposition by the applicants against the Board being given a chance to file papers out of time, the applicants reckoned that all the reasons advanced are lies coming out of the chairperson. According to one of the applicants, Botho Letamora, she denied that the Board and its legal department were in isolation at the time of service of the application. “In fact to my knowledge, the isolation and quarantine of some of the board members took place last year December 2020. The Board has been sitting and the chairperson has been reporting for duty January and February 2021 and also embarking on official trips. All this information I obtained from the officer who has been at work for the said being Mooketsi Majaga employed as a chief technical assistant,” she said.
