37 children homeless as govt razes down houses

The residents of Mmamashia, a settlement along the A1 Road in Kgatleng, were left fumingg when the Kgatleng Landboard demolished six homes in the area on charges that they were squatters.

Of the six home owners accused of squatting, five are sons and daughters of an 84- year-old woman, Mma Bontsibokae. In an interview the old matriarch revealed that she was allocated this large piece of land as a ploughing field decades ago by then Bakgatla Kgosi Molefi. She added that the landboard which took over land allocation from chiefs, came recently and told her children who have built homes around the field, to vacate the land labeling them squatters.