Does MmaAtsile ever tell you about Malete land theft?

and neck with him can only end in tears for you. We are talking about a guy with eyes, ears and tentacles in every arm of Government. He knows every move even before you make it. I suspect even your speech writer is his man. Just give

morena.

With Balete clustered around Gaborone, many Batswana from all over the country prefer plots from the Malete tribal territory.

The natives are often left with nothing as outsiders get all the plots because no formula seems to exist to ensure the poor people of GaMalete find a place to erect their homes.

Even worse, I hear their land is being stolen from them to please some foreign investors whom we gather have applied to build some tourism resort with golf courses and malls and all.

For some inexplicable reason, this land that Balete have rightfully owned since 1925 is being forcibly taken away from them by your government – or should I say by the government of Former Big Brother?

Kana these things started when he was at the helm and I know that the Malete royalty approached him at his office to seek his intervention in the matter.

I know so because you will recall that whenever the then President came to address any form of a kgotla meeting in Ramotswa, the Bamalete Paramount Chief, Kgosikgolo Mosadi Seboko, would somehow absent herself, just to spite him for also snubbing them – at least that is what I heard.

I remember one time people asking ko kgotleng gore kante Kgosi o kae a sa tle go amogela Tautona. Twice she did that if my memory is not betraying me.

It may not be true but I have heard she was angry with the president after he had reportedly snubbed them when they sought his intervention.

I don’t know what they were expecting him to do as the decision to take that land at Kgale Farms was motivated by some curious Court of Appeal judgment - I wonder who the judge was - ka that quarry company that was trespassing into the very land owned by Balete Development Trust.

Kana tota the former could not interfere with the decision of the judiciary, unless they felt he was a part of the grand plan to disarm Balete of their land for that tourism project. Akere he has business interests in the tourism industry.

Yet it still beats me wena Sisiboy gore why would the land be deemed to belong to government simply because of that judgment allowing the quarry company to continue using Kgale Farms as their transit route.

I think le wena you have to ask questions and help your people get back what is rightfully theirs. Kana from what I gather, Balete families of the time – the forefathers – contributed and bought that freehold farm forest hill No.9KO land ka 3000 pounds from one Aaron Siew in 1925, and have since held the title deed to that land.

In fact, several times when the government needed to use some part of the land for developments, including the expansion of Gaborone Dam, negotiations were entered into, with Balete Development Trust, and compensation was always made with the understanding that the land belonged to them.

At the time, even the land board agreed they had no jurisdiction over the freehold land.

Now jikijiki we hear gore BITC has applied to use the land for an investor? And that the title deed should be cancelled as the land was tribalised in 1973 by some Act of Parliament?

Don’t you find it curious le wena Sisiboy gore a piece of freehold land whose three large paddocks were sold to three different entities - Roman Catholic Church, Rre Kirby and Balete - would later be claimed back from only Balete gotwe the land is tribalised, while the other two bone gotwe they still own their portions?

Something doesn’t add up here Sisiboy. The poor Balete are now in court to fight for their own land against a moneyed Government. The poor morafe may only lose their case because they do not have enough money to pay the attendant legal bill.

Why should government use resources to fight a community for land that they own and want to use for economic growth? Le bone ba batla go ruela diphoko mo teng! Gape fela, all along the land was known to belong to morafe, with the title deed first held by Kgosi Seboko I in 1925.

The title deed would then be handed down to other Magosi until today that we see it is in the care of Kgosi Mosadi Seboko.

So, why would BITC apply for the land ko Land Board? Why would the quarry guys challenge the Morafe? Who told them the land no longer belongs to Morafe? Kana gatwe if you want to see real corruption, o tsene ko Land Board.

Some of us the ordinary mortals cannot be blamed to think gore there is some big hand behind this daylight robbery of the land of BagaMalete. If I were a legal guru I would surely volunteer my services to help the morafe.

They need and deserve that legal assistance, otherwise ba ya go utswelwa fela ‘tsatsi le penne. I mean, if you can take Morafe’s freehold land on the excuse of the Act of 1973 that you say tribalised the land and therefore should belong to the Land Board, why not take the land ya Roma le Kirby as well?

Akere the three bought that freehold land – ka 1925! Why then do the goalposts shift for Balete’s land only? Ka gore bone ga bana madi le dithata tse the other two have?

I wonder if your beautiful wife Neo, whose forefathers parted with their hard-earned shillings to buy that land, ever asks you questions about this matter.

I know you may hide behind not wanting to interfere with the judiciary Sisiboy, but in this case you need to ask questions and make people leave that land alone.

Go riana I hear gore next week there will be some court case that seeks to force Kgosi Mosadi Seboko to hand over the title deed to the Land Board so that it is taken further for cancelation. Nnyaa Sisiboy – that will be theft.

Bua le batho ba gago ba tlogele Morafe – I do not want to see you o tlile ko kgotleng ya ga Malete one of the good days only to find Kgosikgolo gotwe o iketse States! O botse The Former!