Policy unclear on allocation routes

Friday, April 10, 2015

In 2012, the Tlokweng Land Board offices were overrun by thousands hoping to get a share of 285 plots available for allocation

Residential land allocation is a sore point in Botswana. The problem always manifests whenever there is a call, especially in peri-urban areas, for land applications.

In some instances, the desperate landless were forced to sleep next to Land Board offices just to make to the queue to drop off an application, leading to stampedes and disorder.

The recent cases that have made land crisis a talking point was the stampedes that occurred in Oodi, Ramotswa and Tlokweng.

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