Hands off our land!!

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Even though only a handful attended a Kgotla meeting called by the South East District Council (SEDC) to solicit their input in the reviewed Tlokweng Development Plan 2001- 2025, Batlokwa were loud enough that they were against the plan.

Chief amongst their points of objection is that the proposed plan would take away their remaining farming land in Mabutswe to make way for 20,000 residential plots. Currently, there are 65,000 people in the waiting list for residential plots, while there is little land left for plots to be allocated.

SEDC on Saturday brought Ralph Chephethe of GIS Plan to explain the proposed plan to Batlokwa and solicit their recommendations before the plan, which cost P3.2 million could be finalised. As if they had caucused, all those who stood to speak rejected the plan and proposed that they be allowed to have a meeting as a Morafe and give feedback at a later date.

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