{"id":4344,"date":"2022-03-24T16:45:25","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T16:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/geoscience-report-crushes-balete-land-hopes"},"modified":"2022-03-24T18:56:09","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T18:56:09","slug":"geoscience-report-crushes-balete-land-hopes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/geoscience-report-crushes-balete-land-hopes","title":{"rendered":"Geoscience Report crushes BaLete Land Hopes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Botswana. <\/strong><\/span>A report compiled by Botswana Geoscience Institute (BGI) may have dealt a big blow to over 20 000 residential plot applicants on the waiting list of MaLete Land Board with its findings that only a small portion of the land targeted may be habitable.<\/p>\n

This means that potential areas of residential expansion and forms of development may be much smaller than initially anticipated.<\/p>\n

Commissioned by MaLete Land Board, the scope of the investigation covered the Ramotswa, Otse and Boatle territories with a sharp focus on geological, geotechnical, hydrogeological and topographical aspects.<\/p>\n

BGI notes that the aim was to survey habitable land for future expansion and development of the areas.<\/p>\n

According to the report, prohibitive factors in Ramotswa, for instance, are that about 71 percent of the area is covered by high plasticity clayey soils with dangers of causing cracks in houses. In Boatle, identified challenges are a marshy and swampy environment of the Taung River flood plain.<\/p>\n

The report says it would take a lot of upgrading to make it habitable, and that even then there are concerns that this may not work in some instances.<\/p>\n

Some areas were considered high flood risk and may need further assessment. In Otse, almost the entire area assessed (91.6 percent) was found to be covered by silty sand dipping down to depths greater than 0.8m.<\/p>\n

In the report, physical planning experts recommend that under such circumstances authorities should come up with strict guidelines for development as failure to do so may attract catastrophic consequences.<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About Botswana<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Botswana. A report compiled by Botswana Geoscience Institute (BGI) may have dealt a big blow to over 20 000 residential plot applicants on the waiting list of MaLete Land Board with its findings that only a small portion of the land targeted may be habitable. This means that potential areas of residential expansion […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":4343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6,8,16],"tags":[233,237,234],"class_list":["post-4344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-files","category-homepage-english","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-botswana","tag-botswana"],"yoast_head":"\nGeoscience Report crushes BaLete Land Hopes - Botswana<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A report compiled by Botswana Geoscience Institute (BGI) may have dealt a big blow to over 20 000 residential plot appli ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/geoscience-report-crushes-balete-land-hopes\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Geoscience Report crushes BaLete Land Hopes\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A report compiled by Botswana Geoscience Institute (BGI) may have dealt a big blow to over 20 000 residential plot appli ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/geoscience-report-crushes-balete-land-hopes\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Botswana\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-03-24T16:45:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-03-24T18:56:09+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/botswana\/sites\/38\/2022\/03\/img-623cbea3216ff.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1170\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/geoscience-report-crushes-balete-land-hopes#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/geoscience-report-crushes-balete-land-hopes\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Geoscience Report crushes BaLete Land Hopes\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-03-24T16:45:25+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-03-24T18:56:09+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/geoscience-report-crushes-balete-land-hopes\"},\"wordCount\":265,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/geoscience-report-crushes-balete-land-hopes#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/botswana\/sites\/38\/2022\/03\/img-623cbea3216ff.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Botswana\",\"Botswana\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"files\",\"homepage-english\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/geoscience-report-crushes-balete-land-hopes#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/geoscience-report-crushes-balete-land-hopes\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/geoscience-report-crushes-balete-land-hopes\",\"name\":\"Geoscience Report crushes BaLete Land Hopes - Botswana\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/geoscience-report-crushes-balete-land-hopes#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/geoscience-report-crushes-balete-land-hopes#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/botswana\/sites\/38\/2022\/03\/img-623cbea3216ff.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-03-24T16:45:25+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-03-24T18:56:09+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"A report compiled by Botswana Geoscience Institute (BGI) may have dealt a big blow to over 20 000 residential plot appli ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/geoscience-report-crushes-balete-land-hopes#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/geoscience-report-crushes-balete-land-hopes\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/geoscience-report-crushes-balete-land-hopes#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/botswana\/sites\/38\/2022\/03\/img-623cbea3216ff.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/botswana\/sites\/38\/2022\/03\/img-623cbea3216ff.jpg\",\"width\":1170,\"height\":600,\"caption\":\"Geoscience Report crushes BaLete Land Hopes\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/geoscience-report-crushes-balete-land-hopes#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Geoscience Report crushes BaLete Land Hopes\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/\",\"name\":\"Botswana\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Geoscience Report crushes BaLete Land Hopes - Botswana","description":"A report compiled by Botswana Geoscience Institute (BGI) may have dealt a big blow to over 20 000 residential plot appli ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/geoscience-report-crushes-balete-land-hopes","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Geoscience Report crushes BaLete Land Hopes","og_description":"A report compiled by Botswana Geoscience Institute (BGI) may have dealt a big blow to over 20 000 residential plot appli ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/geoscience-report-crushes-balete-land-hopes","og_site_name":"Botswana","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2022-03-24T16:45:25+00:00","article_modified_time":"2022-03-24T18:56:09+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1170,"height":600,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/botswana\/sites\/38\/2022\/03\/img-623cbea3216ff.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/geoscience-report-crushes-balete-land-hopes#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/geoscience-report-crushes-balete-land-hopes"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Geoscience Report crushes BaLete Land Hopes","datePublished":"2022-03-24T16:45:25+00:00","dateModified":"2022-03-24T18:56:09+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/geoscience-report-crushes-balete-land-hopes"},"wordCount":265,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/geoscience-report-crushes-balete-land-hopes#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/botswana\/sites\/38\/2022\/03\/img-623cbea3216ff.jpg","keywords":["Africa Press","Africa Press-Botswana","Botswana"],"articleSection":["all news","files","homepage-english","twitter"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/geoscience-report-crushes-balete-land-hopes#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/geoscience-report-crushes-balete-land-hopes","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/geoscience-report-crushes-balete-land-hopes","name":"Geoscience Report crushes BaLete Land Hopes - Botswana","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/geoscience-report-crushes-balete-land-hopes#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/geoscience-report-crushes-balete-land-hopes#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/botswana\/sites\/38\/2022\/03\/img-623cbea3216ff.jpg","datePublished":"2022-03-24T16:45:25+00:00","dateModified":"2022-03-24T18:56:09+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"A report compiled by Botswana Geoscience Institute (BGI) may have dealt a big blow to over 20 000 residential plot appli ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/geoscience-report-crushes-balete-land-hopes#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/geoscience-report-crushes-balete-land-hopes"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/geoscience-report-crushes-balete-land-hopes#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/botswana\/sites\/38\/2022\/03\/img-623cbea3216ff.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/botswana\/sites\/38\/2022\/03\/img-623cbea3216ff.jpg","width":1170,"height":600,"caption":"Geoscience Report crushes BaLete Land Hopes"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/geoscience-report-crushes-balete-land-hopes#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Geoscience Report crushes BaLete Land Hopes"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/","name":"Botswana","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}