Inyandzaleyo bo!

Madam,

Inyandzaleyo is a si6wati exclama tion word that is used when desper ately calling for help from anyone, anywhere who might hear your cry for assistance. This exclamation is shouted by those in great danger, and in most cases are in great fear and in tears. This is the situation at /uhleko in %hunya where land is sold like hot cakes. ,t is not that it is cheap, but buyers are coming from all corners of the country.

3eople are allocated land in moun tains, gra]ing land, next to rivers, near graveyards, wetlands etc. $ll the mountains near the aforementioned area are now full of homesteads. These include 0acembe, 0akle]a, *olwane and others.

NEIGHBOR

The homesteads are not even allo cated the traditional way, like only involving neighbors. 6ometimes you see somebody fencing part of your land, and that is when you get to know that you now have a neighbor.

6ometimes you are forced to buy your own land Must to protect it from being grabbed by the umphakatsi.$ certain widow had to pay ( in order to protect her land from being grabbed; and this is land that her late husband had khontaed for. The umphakatsi listens to no one; there are many instances where they have sold land to certain people yet the land belonged to people who had khontaed.

RESIDENT

)or example, a certain piece of land that belonged to a now deceased resi dent of the area was divided and sold to different people, some of whom built rental flats.

:e would, therefore, like to call upon the 0an]ini 5egional 2ffice, /and 0anagement %oard, media houses and all people from different places and organi]ations that are responsible for such issues to please come to our rescue.

Siyacela mphatsi sifundza, Mntfwanenkhosi *iMa, siyacela Ndabazabantu and all those who can be of assistance to us. 6icela nisisite ngekuphutfuma lokukhulu, the situ ation is really bad for us. Tinkhomo setite emadlelo and bantfwabetfu asati batawakhaphi. :e would love people to come and see lemihlolo lesikhuluma ngayo.

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