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The history of people living in the area now known as Lesotho (/ ləˈsuːtuː, - ˈsoʊtoʊ / [1][2]) goes back as many as 400 years. Present Lesotho (then called Basotholand) emerged as a single polity under King Moshoeshoe I in 1822. Under Moshoeshoe I, Basotho joined other clans in their struggle against the Lifaqane associated with famine ...
Lesotho (/ l ɪ ˈ s uː t uː / ⓘ lih-SOO-too, [6] [7] Sotho pronunciation: [lɪˈsʊːtʰʊ]), formally the Kingdom of Lesotho, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa.As an enclave of South Africa, with which it shares a 1,106 km (687 mi) border, [8] it is the largest sovereign enclave in the world, and the only one outside of the Italian Peninsula.
Education. National University of Lesotho (BA) Thomas Motsoahae Thabane (born 28 May 1939) [1] is a Mosotho politician who was the fifth prime minister of Lesotho from 2012 to 2015 and from 2017 to 2020. He founded the All Basotho Convention (ABC) in 2006 and led the party until 2022. Thabane served in the government of Prime Minister Pakalitha ...
The government says Lesotho receives $200m (£154m) a year from South Africa for the water – more than double what the country used to get after the agreement was renegotiated earlier this year.
MISA Press Freedom Award (1994) Basildon Peta (c. 1972 – ) was the second journalist ever to be awarded the Media Institute of Southern Africa 's Press Freedom Award for his reporting in Zimbabwe. [1] In his homeland, Peta was persecuted and he fled for his life after receiving threats from the Robert Mugabe regime in 2001 and incurring a ...
Lesotho reported to the United Nations Human Rights Council that the last execution they carried out was in 1995. [4] [10] [11] The man who was executed was Veddie Nkosi [12] (also alternately known as Sello Nkosi, [5] or Veddie Sello Nkosi, [13] although shortly before his execution, he claimed to actually be a Zambian national named Edward Donald Nduba [12]), who was between 30 and 40 years ...
The Lesotho Defence Force (LDF) is the military of the Southern African Kingdom of Lesotho, which consists of about 2,000 personnel [1] and is tasked with maintaining internal security, territorial integrity, and defending the constitution of Lesotho. Since the mountainous kingdom is completely landlocked by South Africa, in practice the ...
Lesotho (caretaker) 2021–2022. Lesotho (Assistant) 2022-2023. Linare FC. 2023-. Lesotho. Leslie Notši (born 5 September 1964) is a Mosotho former footballer who played as a Goalkeeper for School Boys FC, Arsenal FC (Lesotho) and Matlama FC in Maseru. He is the head coach of the Lesotho national football team.