Yellow Monster Looms Over Mmamashia

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The Ministry of Land Management, Water and Sanitation Services has come out to absolve itself of a land-use mess following a petition by about 100 landowners at Mmamashia calling on the President to intervene.

The landowners are praying to President Mokgweetsi Masisi to preserve their change of land use they claim was granted by the Oodi Sub Land Board. They accuse the Sub Land Board of having acted unlawfully by granting landowners a change of land use as they do not have the rights. By effect, the landowners dread the Yellow Monster that could soon be at work at Mmamashia to destroy property valued at multi-millions of pula.

The Ministry posits that the Land Boards and Sub Land Boards in Botswana are in law independent institutions capable of suing and being sued in their own right.

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