Losing the plot

Elderly siblings fall out over late mother's land

The inheritance of land left to them by their late parents has landed three elderly siblings before Maun Customary Court as they accuse each other of cheating to meet their own selfish ends.

Dragging his brother and sister before the tribal authority, 50-year-old Johnfan Molapo accused Matsaawe Molapo, 60, and Keesi Molapo, 53, of preventing him from changing his inherited residential plot into his name.

Johnfan told court he applied for the land to be changed into his names last year, but his siblings approached the landboard behind...