A number of veteran lawyers who acted for Kweneng Land-board served as key facilitator in a shady land grabbing enterprise orchestrated by more than a dozen land board officials.
The huge land fraud scheme has diverted more than 65 hectares with an estimated value of more than P100 million from 140 000 applicants who have been on the Mogoditshane sub land board allocation waiting list since 1993 – a report on the audit of the land acquisition process and compensation in kind at Mogoditshane Sub Land Board has revealed.
The misappropriated 65 hectares is believed to be a big underestimation because the audit only investigated a sample of 150 files.
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