Land crisis deepens 

Sunday Standard Land crisis deepens  Botswana’s housing and land crisis has reached alarming levels, with nearly 440,000 citizens waiting for residential plots while government admits it cannot say when the backlog will be cleared, exposing the scale of one of the country’s longest-running service delivery failures. A parliamentary response by Minister of Lands and Agriculture Edwin Dikoloti to a question from Bobirwa Member of Parliament Taolo Lucas reveals a land allocation system overwhelmed by demand and constrained by limited land, funding shortages and inadequate infrastructure. .ihc-locker-wrap{}There's more to this story But to keep reading, we need you to subscribe. Investigative journalism is an indispensable part of a healthy society, but it's also expensive to produce. We are reliant on subscriptions to fund our work, and while you can enjoy most of our stories for free, a small number of premium features are reserved for subscribers. You can subscribe for one week, a month or a full year - the choice is yours. Save 77% on an annual subscription. Click here to find out how. Existing subscribers can log in to keep reading here. jQuery(document).ready( function(){ jQuery('#iump_login_username').on('blur', function(){ ihcCheckLoginField('log', 'Please complete all required fields!'); }); jQuery('#iump_login_password').on('blur', function(){ ihcCheckLoginField('pwd', 'Please complete all required fields!'); }); jQuery('#ihc_login_form').on('submit', function(e){ e.preventDefault(); var u = jQuery('#ihc_login_form [name=log]').val(); var p = jQuery('#ihc_login_form [name=pwd]').val(); if (u!='' && p!=''){ jQuery('#ihc_login_form').unbind('submit').submit(); } else { ihcCheckLoginField('log', 'Please complete all required fields!'); ihcCheckLoginField('pwd', 'Please complete all required fields!'); return FALSE; } }); } ); The post Land crisis deepens  first appeared on Sunday Standard and is written by Cedric Swanka