Barolong Paramount Chief Lotlamoreng II has urged Batswana to stop selling their residential and commercial plots to foreigners. Officiating at the Rolong Land Board Open Day held in Good Hope last Saturday under the theme, ‘Efficient Land Management Towards 2016’, Kgosi Lotlamoreng said while there is an outcry of shortage of land, some Batswana who have acquired plots from Land Boards continue to sell them to foreigners. Addressing Barolong Kgosi Lotlamoreng said their land is small but could be sustainable if efficiently managed. “We need land in order to have a safe, secure and democratic nation; we need land to have a developed, educated and productive nation”.Kgosi Lotlamoreng addressed residents’ complaints that the Land Board does not serve them adequately and on time. He called for good working relations between the Land Board and the community, adding that they would hold consultation meetings between the two entities to resolve differences and to avoid future complaints. He also encouraged the community to make use of the Citizen Entrepreneurial Development Agency (CEDA) programmes to develop their land and sustain their businesses. In his State of the Nation address last week, President Lt Gen Ian Khama said a major challenge that calls for introspection is the tendency of some people to hoard land and use it for speculative purposes.  “We have observed that citizens acquire land and fail to develop it for the purpose for which it was allocated and, with the passage of time, often sell it to non-citizens,” he said.Khama said these people then go back to apply for additional land and inflate the lists of people who are waiting to be allocated. “This is prevalent in small districts where there is acute shortage of land.  Government will not allow this practice to continue and is putting in place measures that will identify and impose sanctions on those involved.”

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