Two In Tug-Of-War Over Plot 3832

FRANCISTOWN: A row is brewing over a plot in Block 1 which an elderly man claims is his and vows to move mountains to have it back and a woman who says she bought it from the man's brother.

The plot, whose number is 3832, pits 70-year-old herdsman Kealoiwa Garebaitse, who is originally from Jamataka, just west of Franscistown, and a woamn consultant at the Botswana National Productivity Centre (BNPC) Keganneng Mikkie Matenge who has erected a P100,000 structure on the disputed piece of land.

Matenge says when she bought the plot, it had only a grass thatched dilapidated mud hut, while Garebaitse who was brought to the attention of Monitor by sympathisers, says there were two mud huts.

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