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From 6 July 2006, a graphic version of the current edition is available at the Daily News Online web site.

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However, farmers in the district are still complaining of shortage of land because people have already invaded the farms before they are allocated.

Residents of Letsholathebe, Masunga and Vukwi told the MP for Tati West, Mr Charles Tibone during Kgotla meetings that the purchased plots had been invaded.

How long should we wait to apply for land in farms that government bought, because as we speak there are prominent people who are using the farms and nothing is being said or done about it? Should we do the same because really we dont have a place where our cattle could graze, said one resident.

Residents complained of the delay by government to allocate them land in the farms.

How long should we wait to apply so that we could be able to use the farms, so whats taking so long for them to be allocated, asked another resident.

In his address, Mr Tibone lashed out at government officials for taking their time in sealing the deals and allocating land to the people.

All these delays are unnecessary, why cant they make guidelines to tell people that this is where you can plough or this is where animals can graze because frankly we do not have space, he said.

In response, the acting Tati Land board vice secretary, Mr Kennedy Segobye told residents that the farms are still undergoing a zoning plan to see suitable areas for either farming or ploughing.

Mr Segobye agreed with residents that some of the squatters are prominent people who are making their job difficult, as it is not easy to chase them off the farms.

Some of the farms have not been handed to us by the owners, and the ones we have the deals were only completed last year. Its a long process to change the farms into tribal land, and at the moment we are still at the early stages of doing that and people should understand that we are trying our best, he told BOPA.

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