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Land Act interpretation remains a live issue – Kgosi Mosadi

Balete attending Kgosi Seboko meeting PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO
Balete attending Kgosi Seboko meeting PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO

The relentless fight by the Balete tribe not to lose their grazing land to the State has boiled down to the constitutional validity of the new Land Act.

The tribe, which has been embroiled in a legal battle with the government over the ownership of the remaining extent of the Farm Forest Hill 9-KO, says should the court determine that the Act has divested them the land then they will challenge its constitutional validity should there be a need.

Kgosi Mosadi Seboko on Wednesday said the State is contesting that the now re-repealed Act has divested them of the farm therefore the reason they would like to challenge if that need arise.

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