BHC to focus on flats, not single house units

Land Minister, Nonofo Molefhi, made these revelations at a stakeholders' breakfast seminar hosted by the Botswana Housing Corporation.

"We are moving towards high-rise development and will be looking at issues of costs with a view to building flats more and more, and we are insisting that government should also build flats for best utilisation of the little land that we have. We must appreciate that we have a problem with land. Expanding our residential territory means taking more and more fertile land that is needed for ploughing and pastures," he said. Molefhi said that to deal with the problem of land, Land Boards would continue to reduce plot sizes.