Botswana. Lesotho.

– Accessing Housing
● Means in which housing is accessed
● Gender analysis of housing
● Different organizations
 Lesotho
– Functionaries involved in land ownership
● Maseru City Council
● Land Allocation Committee
● Local Chiefs
● Ministers of Local Government
● Urban Land Committee

– Accessing land for women

● Loaned from relatives
● Written will allocates land
● Local chief allocated land
● Widows retain the rights of land from the the deceased husband
● Sharecropping
 Strategics of gaining land
– Gain community ties from homemaker role, communication with the
neighborhood, personal knowledge of community individuals.
– Family ties can open communication to chief leaders without the
influence of her husband.
– Leasing land (and staying in favor to the owner) increasing likelihood
of retaining land when owner dies.
– Exploiting the “minority status” from male relatives to create inclusion
opportunities in land process.
– Planning through loopholes in the law (overlapping between informal
and formal land allocation procedures and/or processes
 Botswana
– Functionaries involved in land ownership
● Botswana Housing Corporation
● Department of Survey
● Land and Self help Housing Agency (stem squatter settlements)
● City Council
– Land Accessing
● Going through the procedure with a Housing Agency
● Women not marrying to retain rights to home and build home in
stages not outright purchasing
● From a divorce husbands leave home to the mother and children
● Squatting (those on waiting list or not able to procure the funds
needed for housing)
 Thoughts on Housing
● Lesotho
– Men and women have to negotiate and adapt to changing times.
– Women: Men only assert themselves after the real work is done
– Men: Women do not understand the complexities or the eduction to make
the process successful.
– Inheritance should be to sons, its their “due”
● Botswana
– Creation of the Residence Development Committee
– Men: everyone should be allocated land, to construct or not is their issue.
Also men appreciating the advancements independent women are making
but not acceptable to those women who are married because they are
suppose to rely on their husband
– Women: Not marrying because men are becoming even more irresponsible,
want nothing effecting their chances of a home
– Constraints on housing for men and women because of poverty