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This is the local primary school

where we have had all our

meetings with squatters to



Joseph, Darius and Me waiting

to meet the local council leader

who is speaking on behalf of the



The local councilman, Head

teacher of the school that we’ve

been waiting for.



This is the urbanised part of our land. It

starts at the top end of the road, just where

the arrow points and continues downwards.

Our property is all on the left hand side of

Irrigation stream on the land and the typical

vegetation found on it, some wild, some

One of the more worrying structures built by

the squatters on the land as it is apermanent brick structure. If you shift the

squatter, you pay for the value of what he or



Same applies

A wild, uncultivated piece of our land. It

extends up to where the arrow points.

Still on the

Same here. I’m overweight because I’ve

spent the last six years chasing up on

this land and have not had any time for

myself. Go figure. Help would be nice.



Again on the land. This time it is clear

that the soil is black (not red) and

therefore very fertile and good for

agriculture. Irrigation stream can also be

The land extends from beyond the

top of the picture to beyond the

Land extends from the tree line where the arrow is to

beyond the foreground of the picture. There are anumber of different varieties of trees growing wild on the

land such as Euyculuptus and pines. There is also a

colony o Crested Crane birds, the national symbol of

Uganda and protected species that live on the land.



Land extends from where the arrow is to beyond

the foreground of the picture (i.e. past where Dan

was standing when he took this shot.) We walked

for about 90 minutes to get to this point.

The Railway. There is a railway track

running along the border of the land on

one side of it. Our land is on the left

hand side and pretty much extends for

a couple of miles along the route of the

rail track. It stops about where the

arrow is and Mehta’s Sugar

Plantation/factory starts. Mehta



Squatter (or one of our tenants according

to law) working in the fields and her semi-

permanent structure for which she will no

doubt seek compensation from us if we ask

her to leave.Both sides of this track are our land.

However, to the left as you look at

the picture, it only goes on for abouthalf a mile more.

Another squatter gathering firewood on the land. Sinc

Daddy bought effectively a village, I suppose there

should be no cause for complaint. The squatters get

aggressive if they see a new face there because they

think you are probably the owner come to evict them.

There was a little hostility though on this day because

think they recognised me from previous meetings.

Also, because I didn’t surround myself with policemen

like other eo le, that robabl hel ed.



The division between our land and Mehta’s. His

is to the right where the sugar canes are and

ours is to the left where nothing economically

beneficial to us is growing. The well kept fields

at the top of the picture are Mehta’s recently

harvested fields.

Another squatter collecting firewood from trees

on the land. One of the other squatters has

planted a number of eucalyptus trees which

take about twenty years to grow. He’ll be

expecting compensation as well as that is an

expensive crop of trees he has planted.

We have two relatively clear

streams running through the

land. They come from an

underground spring



Joseph suggested that, in addition to being

good to grow mahogany, eucalyptus,

sugarcane, coffee, tea and maize, because

of the streams, the land could be good for

fish farming if a two or three large ponds

were sunk on it. Currently there is only one

small pond and the fish have mostly been

Mehta’s sugarcane are clear in the background and I had

cross another little stream

Some more irrigation ditches built by

squatters to ensure that no part of the

land lacks water for agriculture. They’ll

be seeking compensation for these

improvements too at some point.



Some squatters use the earth to make

bricks and sell them on. Problem is that it

depletes the good soil and needs a lot of

firewood. This means trees on the landbeing cut down. However, selling bricks to

make houses is a nice little earner.

All the land in this picture is

This road is another border on the land.

From where the arrow is to the foreground

of this picture and beyond, all the land onthe left is ours.



Bricks made out of

One of the squatter’s houses

on the land. To have the

squatter leave meanscom ensatin them.



Another squatter’s

Another Squatter’s




A Road built by the local

council, illegally, running

through the land.

The local council official

explaining the extent of

the land’s boundaries.




Some more Squatter

Another Squatter’s House

Graves on the land. Once a grave is put up,

legally, it can’t be removed out of respect for

The Road bordering one side of the



Another Squatter’s House

Road through the land leading to another

road bordering the land.





Corner of one point of the

Local Council sign detailing work done



The house of the Local

Councilman we were dealing

Another Squatter’s House,

this time with hedge.



List of the twenty four or

so families who were

squatting on the land

when Daddy bought it.







One of the better squatters who was prepared to show

us the extent of land he is using

Walking back through

the land to our starting



Water facilities on our land provided by the

District Council for the squatters





Bwikwe Stadium being built on our

Land extends to about this point

but a proper survey is still needed.



Exchange Teacher from Austin,

Texas – also squatting

(temporarily) on the land with a

host famil .



Sign indicating Offices of the

District Local Government. Guess

where? On our land.



One or Two Squatters may be

innocent trespassers on our land.





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