‘Transfer Land Board powers to dikgosi’ :: Mmegi Online

LOBATSE: Batswana have seemingly lost hope in the current land allocation system, which takes years to allot a residential plot to an individual. They are now calling for the government to give dikgosi back land issuing powers so they can allocate them plots as they used to do in the olden days.

They expressed this in most of the kgotla meetings addressed by the Presidential Enquiry Commission on the constitutional review.

Their main gripe is that families are suffering and therefore, failure by the Land Boards to allocate plots to the people has caused more disputes in homes. In all the kgotla meetings that the presidential commission for constitutional review presided over, Batswana have not hesitated on this matter. They believe that dikgosi were doing a much better job when it came to plot allocations than Land Boards, which have left many stranded and out in the bitter cold.

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