25 Oct 2022

 A Maun Sub-land Board official has called on Khwai residents to exercise  patience with regard to plot allocation.

  Responding to residents’ complaints during a kgotla meeting in the village recently, vice chairperson, Mr Abel Molelo stated that the mother body, Tawana Land Board, was seized with allocating 17 918 plots.

  This was its portion of the set national target of allocating 100 000 residential plots by the end of the financial year, he explained.

  Mr Molelo said the board was doing everything possible to expedite plot allocation to meet the set target.

  He said allocation had been completed in areas falling under the Maun Sub-land Board jurisdiction.

 Admitting that there were   some delays in Khwai’s case due to a number of factors such as overlapping plot boundaries, Mr Molelo said 25 of the 72 plot applications received had been allocated. He assured residents that the current board,  appointed in 2020, would complete plot allocations in the village before the end of its term.

On business plots, Mr Molelo said they were advertised as per procedure but none in Khwai because of the pending geo-technical study issue.

It was reported that Khwai water table was high necessitating a geo-technical study to help determine a solution.

He however said the study should not stop individuals from submitting applications  for land.

Mr Molelo said there were many in-fills not affected by the study and promised that the board would consider  sound proposals.

Earlier, some residents had complained that industrial plots allocation delays frustrated their business ventures.

One of them, Ms Gabonakgomo Mopalo, said she had long applied for a plot to start a laundry business but kept being moved from pillar to post.

She also alleged that leases for some campsites operating in reserves and parks had long elapsed but they were still operational, an allegation Mr Molelo promised would be investigated.

 Ms Cecilia Gwabago expressed concern that some youth had the tendency of laying false claims on other people’s ploughing fields and urged the land board to look into such issues thoroughly. ENDS