Bamalete’s 20 years of blood, sweat and tears

The tribe contributed to raising the £3,000 then required to purchase the land from Aaron Siew. In the same year, a title deed was issued by the Deeds Registry in the names of the then kgosi on behalf of the tribe.

To this day, the title deed is in the name of kgosi for and on behalf of the tribe and according to the Court of Appeal, that will not change. According to Mmegi archives, the government indicated in 2003 that it needed 1,000 hectares of the farm, which had been included within the Gaborone Development Plan 1997–2021.