Opposition leader responds to State of Nation Address

New opposition leader, Olebile Gaborone has said that it is unfortunate that changes in the Tribal Land Act has worsened the problem of land shortage in some districts.

In his response to President Ian Khama's State of the Nation Address, he said land is a finite resource, which must be handled with utmost care.

He said that a few people have developed an unbridled appetite for land. The South-East North legislator said that the stampede that was experienced by the Tlokweng Land Board sometime this year is a foretaste of what is going to happen all over Botswana if government does not revert to the earlier arrangement of one man one plot. Addressing Khama's new D for Delivery, Gaborone said if it should happen as Nigerian writer, Chinua Achebe wrote that a cult of mediocrity develops where favouritism based on either tribe, race or political party membership plays a part in employment and conducting state affairs are perpetuated, then the country will suffer the most.

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