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Lesotho
Lesotho , officially Kingdom of Lesotho, kingdom (2005 est. pop. 1,867,000), 11,720 sq mi (30,355 sq km), S Africa. It is an enclave within the Republic of South Africa. Maseru is the capital and largest city. Land and People The Drakensberg range occupies the eastern part of the country... Read more
Drakensberg Range
Drakensberg Range , South Africa and Lesotho, extending 700 mi (1,127 km) NE-SW in KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Free State, Limpopo, and Mpumalanga. The Zulu name of the range is Ukhahlamba [barrier of spears]. Thabana-Ntlenyana (11,425 ft/3,482 m), in Lesotho, is the highest point in the range and in S ... Read more
Joseph Leabua Jonathan
Joseph Leabua Jonathan , 1914-87, prime minister of Lesotho (1965-86). He founded (1959) and led the Basutoland National party working for separate independence from Great Britain (rather than, as had originally been planned, becoming part of the Union of South Africa). He became prime minister (196... Read more
Orange River
Orange River chief river of S Africa, c.1,300 mi (2,090 km) long, rising in the Maluti Mts., N Lesotho. It flows SW through Lesotho, then meanders northwest and west through central South Africa, forming the SW boundary of Free State and part of the South Africa-Namibia line before entering the Atl... Read more
Moshoeshoe
Moshoeshoe or Moshweshwe , c.1786-1870, Sotho king. A remarkable leader, he was a superior military tactician and was able to unite several small groups into the Sotho nation. By the mid-1820s he ruled approximately 25,000 citizens. He permitted Christian missions and sought British aid against ... Read more
Transkei
Transkei , former black "homeland" and nominal republic, E South Africa. Transkei was bounded by the Great Kei River on the south, by the Indian Ocean on the east, by Natal on the north, and by Lesotho on the northwest. The capital and main city was Umtata. Part of the Drakensberg Range was... Read more
Bantu languages
Bantu languages group of African languages forming a subdivision of the Benue-Niger division of the Niger-Congo branch of the Niger-Kordofanian language family (see African languages ). Bantu contains hundreds of languages that are spoken by 120 million Africans in the Congo Basin, Angola, the Rep... Read more
Commonwealth of Nations
Commonwealth of Nations voluntary association of Great Britain and its dependencies, certain former British dependencies that are now sovereign states and their dependencies, and the associated states (states with full internal government but whose external relations are governed by Britain). At it... Read more
KwaZulu-Natal
KwaZulu-Natal , province (1995 est. pop. 8,713,000), 33,578 sq mi (86,967 sq km), E South Africa, on the Indian Ocean. Formerly Natal province, in the constitution of 1994 it was renamed KwaZulu-Natal. Land and People The province has two capitals, Pietermaritzburg and Ulundi ; the larg... Read more
South Africa
South Africa Afrikaans Suid-Afrika, officially Republic of South Africa, republic (2005 est. pop. 44,344,000), 471,442 sq mi (1,221,037 sq km), S Africa. It borders on the Atlantic Ocean in the west, on Namibia in the northwest, on Botswana and Zimbabwe in the north, on Mozambique and Swaziland i... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Lesotho"

Lesotho
Encyclopedia entry from: Countries and Their Cultures Lesotho Culture Name Mosotho (singular); Basotho (plural) Alternative Names Kingdom of Lesotho; formerly known as Basutoland Orientation...Identification. The area now called The Kingdom of Lesotho (pronounced le-Soo-too) was originally...
LESOTHO
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language LESOTHO. A country of southern Africa and member of the COMMONWEALTH . Languages: Sesotho and English (both...protectorate of Basutoland . The territory gained internal self-government in 1955 and independence as Lesotho in 1966.
Lesotho, kingdom of
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History Lesotho, kingdom of. Former British crown colony of Basutoland. Threatened by the Boers of the Orange Free State , Mshweshwe, the ruler...
Sotho
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures ...PRONUNCIATION: SOH-toh LOCATION: Lesotho; South Africa POPULATION: 5.6...in South Africa; 1.9 million in Lesotho LANGUAGE: Sotho language, or Sesotho...people are an ethnic group living in Lesotho and South Africa. There are two...
Chief Joseph Leabua Jonathan
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...the first prime minister of independent Lesotho. For 20 years beginning in 1966, until...Moshesh, founder of Basutoland (now Lesotho). A Protestant, Jonathan was educated...and then for the independent Kingdom of Lesotho (Oct. 4, 1966). In the January 1970...
Maseru
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...137,837), capital of the Kingdom of Lesotho, on the Caledon River, near the border with the Republic of South Africa. It is Lesotho's only sizable city and its administrative...trade and transportation hub, it lies on Lesotho's main road and is linked with South...
Thomas Mofolo
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...perceptive descriptions of native mores in Lesotho and in South Africa and a thoughtful...Natal. After 1927 he bought a store in Lesotho; in 1937 he acquired a farm in South...a broken and sick man, he returned to Lesotho, where he died on Sept. 8, 1948. Further...
South Africa
Encyclopedia entry from: Countries and Their Cultures ...Atlantic Ocean. The independent country of Lesotho lies in the middle of east central South Africa...the Malibamatso below their sources in the Lesotho Drakensburg. This series of dams, the Lesotho Highlands Water Project, is the largest public...
Joseph Leabua Jonathan
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Jonathan , 1914-87, prime minister of Lesotho (1965-86). He founded (1959) and...preceded Basutoland's independence as Lesotho (1966). Having apparently lost the...the opposition. South Africa blockaded Lesotho when Jonathan provided sanctuary to ANC...
Drakensberg Range
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Drakensberg Range , South Africa and Lesotho, extending 700 mi (1,127 km) NE-SW in KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Free State, Limpopo, and Mpumalanga...Ntlenyana (11,425 ft/3,482 m), in Lesotho, is the highest point in the range and...

Dictionary entries related to "Lesotho"

Lesotho
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History Lesotho A small landlocked country entirely surrounded...the Republic of South Africa. Physical Lesotho lies in the central and highest part of...Economy South Africa dominates the economy of Lesotho, being the principal trading partner...
Lesotho, kingdom of
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History Lesotho, kingdom of Former British crown colony of Basutoland. Threatened by the Boers of the Orange Free State , Mshweshwe, the ruler...
South Africa
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...Mozambique. Southward, the Orange Free State region partly surrounds Lesotho, which forms an enclave. In the east are boundaries with Mozambique, Swaziland, and Lesotho. From Cape Agulhas in the extreme south to the Limpopo River in the extreme...
Tutu, Right Revd Desmond Mpilo
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...became a lecturer in the seminaries in the Cape and then in Lesotho. He left for Britain again to become Associate Director of...Anglicans in South Africa that he was removed, becoming Bishop of Lesotho (1976). As secretary-general to the South African Council...
lisente
Book article from: A Dictionary of Business and Management lisente A monetary unit of Lesotho, worth one hundredth of a loti .
decolonization
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History ...and Sierra Leone in 1961, Uganda in 1962, Kenya and Zanzibar in 1963, Zambia and Malawi in 1964, the Gambia in 1965, Lesotho in 1966, and Swaziland in 1968. More or less simultaneously the British Caribbean provided a footnote to African decolonization...
Swaziland
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History ...x2010;be Boer (Afrikaner) settlers, and from British administrators in Natal . In 1906, along with Botswana and Lesotho it was placed under the jurisdiction of a British high commissioner. The country became independent in 1968.
AIDS
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...pregnant women were infected with the virus in 2000. Over 20 per cent of the adult population in South Africa, Namibia, Lesotho, and Swaziland were suspected of being infected. This raised important issues of equity, as almost all research on the disease...
Commonwealth of Nations
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...Zambia 1965 British Indian Ocean Territory † 1965 Gambia 1965 Singapore 1966 Barbados 1966 Botswana 1966 Guyana 1966 Lesotho 1968 Mauritius 1968 Nauru 1968 Swaziland 1970 Fiji (expelled 1978) 1970 Tonga 1970 Western Samoa 1972 Bangladesh 1973 Bahamas...
Tutu, Desmond Mpilo
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church ...E. U. T. Huddleston and was ordained priest in 1961. He had been Dean of Johannesburg (1975–6), Bp. of Lesotho (1976–8), Secretary of the South African Council of Churches (1978–85), and Bp. of Johannesburg...

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Lesotho: the promise of Africa.(PROMOTION)(Country overview)
Magazine article from: Foreign Policy; 9/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...OMITTED] INVESTMENT IN AFRICA'S GUIDING LIGHT Lesotho is a country paving a new path for development...an upcoming branding initiative to make Made in Lesotho a global trademark, Lesotho is quickly becoming an African investment destination...
LESOTHO ELECTION: 'NO SENSE IN VOTING IF LIVES REMAIN THE SAME'
News Wire article from: Inter Press Service English News Wire; 2/26/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...issued this week show that the ruling Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) has swept...LCD, won 21 of these seats, while the Lesotho Workers Party gained 10. The latter is...just returned from monitoring the poll in Lesotho. He spoke to IPS about the vote, and...
Lesotho's head of government to visit United States October 7-12. (Justin Meysing Lekhanya)
PR Newswire; 10/8/1990; 700+ words ; LESOTHO'S HEAD OF GOVERNMENT TO VISIT UNITED...PRNewswire/ -- The Embassy of the Kingdom of Lesotho issued the following: Major-General...the head of government of the Kingdom of Lesotho, will visit the United States Oct. 7...
Lesotho-Africa's best kept secret: Pure majesty
Magazine article from: New African; 5/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; If you haven't been to Lesotho yet, you haven't seen natural beauty...For, in some parts of the 75% of Lesotho dominated by the beautiful rugged mountains...riverine system of Southern Africa. Lesotho is the birthplace of many of the region...
LESOTHO ELECTION: 'NO SENSE IN VOTING IF LIVES REMAIN THE SAME'.
News Wire article from: Interpress Service; 2/26/2007; 700+ words ; ...issued this week show that the ruling Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) has swept...LCD, won 21 of these seats, while the Lesotho Workers Party gained 10. The latter is...just returned from monitoring the poll in Lesotho. He spoke to IPS about the vote, and...
POLITICS-LESOTHO: MOKHEHLE'S DEATH ENDS A TURBULENT ERA
News Wire article from: Inter Press Service English News Wire; 1/12/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...controversial former prime minister of Lesotho, Ntsu Mokhehle, on Jan. 6 marked the...had been declared life president of the Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) party. Mokhehle, who headed the government of Lesotho between 1993 and 1998, died at the age...
Wales-Lesotho twinning comes of age: twenty-one years after it was launched, the world's first nation-to-nation twinning is moving up a gear.(Dolen Cymru )
Magazine article from: For A Change; 8/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; When Dolen Cymru (the Wales-Lesotho Link) was launched in 1985 (see FAC...to-country link with the Kingdom of Lesotho in Southern Africa was sustained on the...and did its best, when dealing with the Lesotho Government, to 'speak for Wales...
SECRETARY RICE, LESOTHO PRIME MINISTER MOSISILI, AMBASSADOR DANILOVICH SPEAK AT MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE'S COMPACT SIGNING CEREMONY WITH LESOTHO
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 7/23/2007; 700+ words ; ...ministers and members of the delegation from Lesotho, Under Secretary Jeffery, the State...Hackett of our MCC Board, friends of Lesotho, it is a pleasure to welcome you to the...of the Compact between the Kingdom of Lesotho and the Millennium Challenge Corporation...
Profile: Lesotho feeling the effects of World Trade Organization's new rules concerning the global textile industry
Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered; 1/31/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...Considered (NPR) 01-31-2005 Profile: Lesotho feeling the effects of World Trade Organization...far away as the tiny African nation of Lesotho. As NPR's Jason Beaubien reports...easy to find the front gate of any of Lesotho's garment factories; just look for...
ROUNDUP: LESOTHO COUP DENIED, BUT PROBLEMS DO EXIST
Newspaper article from: Xinhua English Newswire; 9/13/1998; 667 words ; Although both Lesotho and South Africa have denied a military coup in Lesotho, it iw believed that signs of a crisis do exist...Mandela said Saturday that there was no crisis in Lesotho, claiming there was no need to be alarmed by the...