Balete deny Kgale Farm acquisition consent

Farm Forest, known as Hill 9-KO
Farm Forest, known as Hill 9-KO

The Balete tribe has bluntly denied ever consenting to the acquisition of the contested Kgale Farm by the government as claimed.

Instead, the tribe that is currently in a bitter war with the state over the ownership of the farm says before the legal wars government had shown interest in purchasing the farm as the fight to get hold of the it intensified on Monday before the Gaborone High Court.

The tribe through its lawyer Oteng Motlhala who instructed advocates, Senior Counsel Geoff Budlender and Mitchell De Beer says it was surprising that the State wants to claim ownership of the farm under the disguise that the tribe agreed to the acquisition of the farm and that it was tribalised and vested into the Malete Land Board.

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