No More `Land Use` Change

29 March, 2009 in Botswana, Business

source: The Botswana Gazette
BY AUBREY LUTE
Wednesday, 25 March 2009 16:46

The Ministry of Lands and Housing has moved quickly to stop change of land use in villages around Gaborone because of the feverish buying of communal land by people who have ready cash, and to enable government to achieve planned development, according to the Minister, Mr. Nonofo Molefhi. He said there have been complaints that arable agricultural land – masimo – was fast being converted to residential and commercial plots.

‘This decision will ensure that masimo are not converted,” he said. Areas such as Oodi, Matebele, Rasesa, Morwa, Tlokweng, Ramotswa, Mmopane, Metsimotlhabe, Gakutlo, and Molepolole, among others, attract prospective land buyers because of their proximity to the capital. Village leaders and politicians from these areas had expressed at the rate at which land was being acquired from residents, sometimes at very low prices. “Some of those who sold the land are yet to see the money,’ said the Minister.

The communities had also complained [continue reading]

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