Kgatleng landowners plead with banks for mercy

Sesinyi PIC: PHATSIMO KAPENG
Sesinyi PIC: PHATSIMO KAPENG

With the clock ticking for some of them, court cases pending, disgruntled Kgatleng landowners have called on financial institutions to assist in their quest to save their properties.

The spokesperson for the over 100 affected land owners, Gilbert Sesinyi told a press briefing on Wednesday that they are relentless in their pursuit and have since looked up to banks as government is not willing to listen to them.

The aggrieved find themselves between a rock and a hard place as some have already been given up to February 8, 2022 to destroy their multimillion-pula projects back into ploughing fields. This came about after Kgatleng Land Board told the landowners in the Mmamashia area that Oodi Sub Land Board had wrongfully granted them changes of land use.

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