Raletobana was briefing Gabane residents during a recent well-attended Kgotla meeting he addressed in the village. "Every time you go to the landboard offices to make a follow-up on applications they will tell you that they are still dealing with applications from as far back as 1992/93. If you tell them that you had applied during those years but there has been nothing forthcoming they would tell you that some files cannot be found. Since files have 'disappeared', you will be asked to take an oath, after which you will be assured of being allocated land but that does not happen at all." The MP said despite repeated appeals to the landboard to computerise applications a long time ago, they told him that they had not yet computerised the filing system.
"Consequently they are saddled with a backlog of 250, 000 applications. Part of the problem is that some people are allocated plots time and time again. There are even situations whereby one person can be allocated up to three residential plots," he said amid murmurs from listeners. "Yes, an acquaintance of mine revealed it to me that he had been allocated three plots. This is unfair given that there are people in this village who grew up, got married and bore children while still living with their parents. This is because the landboard has failed to allocate them plots."
