Kweneng Land Board in double allocation saga
Monday, September 13, 2010
The owner of the land claims it was acquired by his father in 1995. He has fenced the area enclosing some plots and buildings inside leaving the new allottees with worthless pieces of certificates.
"We are left with the certificates and the Land Board has not been able to allocate us plots. They now want to relocate us to Gakuto, which is far away from our livelihood and place of birth," one of the affected, Lenah Motlhwe said on Friday.
It highlights the need to protect rights such as access to clean water, education, healthcare and freedom of expression.President Duma Boko, rightly honours past interventions from securing a dignified burial for Gaoberekwe Pitseng in the CKGR to promoting linguistic inclusion. Yet, they also expose a critical truth, that a nation cannot sustainably protect its people through ad hoc acts of compassion alone.It is time for both government and the...