Parliament has approved a motion to conduct a nationwide forensic land audit, aimed at scrutinizing land allocations made over the past 15 years. While the motion originally aimed to examine land allocations in Mogoditshane, parliamentary deliberations highlighted the necessity of a comprehensive audit extending to all Land Boards across the country. The audit will cover five tenures of the past Land Board officials and three political terms since 2010.
Commenting in absentia, the Acting Minister of Lands and Agriculture, Dr Edwin Dikoloti highlighted the need for independent and objective examination of land transitions in Mogoditshane and other areas of the country. “Our ministry has received representations from individuals and groups registering complaints against the Mogoditshane Land Board. Allegations of the involvement of the mentioned parties (officials) in the motion do exist. Internal audits have revealed issues of plots with no evidence of allocations, double allocations and abandoned plots or those that remain undeveloped for many years as well as encroachments,” Dikoloti stated.
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