Special Kweneng Land Board meeting to resolve cemetery dispute

Heated: A previous meeting where emotional villagers pleaded for access to the cemetery.
Heated: A previous meeting where emotional villagers pleaded for access to the cemetery.

The Kweneng Land Board will hold a special meeting today to address the raging dispute over the allocation of a cemetery to a farmer in Magokotswane.

The meeting to discuss the feud between Clement Kgosiemang and residents of Magokotswane in Molepolole is expected to be a tense affair. It comes after a media frenzy caused by the villagers demand for the return of the cemetery.

The cemetery was allocated despite the fact that two people, including a former headman, were already buried on it. Last December, a magistrate ordered the Land Board to hold discussions with Kgosiemang to resolve the matter within two months. The court barred any burials from taking place on the land in the interim.

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