Bame Piet
25 March 2008
The dreaded 'Yellow Monster' will be back in Mogoditshane very soon. This was confirmed by the Minister of Lands and Housing, Ramadeluka Seretse in Parliament last week Friday. It will take a long time before council bulldozers completely disappear from Mogoditshane and the memories of people who used to live there illegally.
Last Friday, Minister of Lands and Housing, Ramadeluka Seretse, announced in Parliament that 18 more people, who have been identified as squatters, are to be evicted in the coming weeks. He said the Kweneng Land Board has obtained court orders against them and 82 more people are awaiting hearing at the High Court.
He was responding to a question by Kweneng South East MP, Mmoloki Raletobana, who wanted to know the number of houses to be demolished in Mogoditshane and why it has taken so long to resolve the issue of squatting.
Seretse said litigation is a long process and that in some instances squatters have disappeared only to reappear after some time claiming their property. He said it is difficult for him to normalise some of the allocations where people have stayed for over 10 years since this could set a bad precedent. He denied that people had stayed on their land for 10 years without the land board querying, saying they knew that they were staying there illegally. "The land board has continuously been in touch with these people and both my predecessors and I have addressed these people," he told the House.
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