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MEDICINE MURDER IN BASUTOLAND: COLONIAL RULE AND MORAL CRISIS.
; ...the capital of the British colony of Basutoland. One was Bereng Griffith Lerotholi...one day spoke `for the nation' in the Basutoland National Council were arrested for medicine...strands of political opinion within Basutoland, which were committed to discrediting...
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Lesotho-Africa's best kept secret: White gold is a win-win for all
; ...the British high commissioner in Basutoland (now Lesotho), realising that the only natural resource Basutoland had in abundance was water, requested...Ballenden, to investigate the viability of Basutoland exporting water to areas in South...
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Voyage to south Africa led to a Navy career and close encounter with atom bomb
; ...the war years at his aunt's house in Basutoland, where he lived a relatively idyllic...arriving in Cape Town and travelling to Basutoland at the foot of the Maluti mountains...arithmetic at St Catherine's School, Maseru, Basutoland (now Lesotho), a school for the local...
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Lesotho MP Fails to Broke Peace in Ruling Party
; Lesotho Prime Minister and leader of the ruling Basutoland Congress Party, Ntsu Mokhehle, today failed to heal the rift of his party. Mokhehle called a special meeting in response to a recent...
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Audit Profile: The Office of the Auditor General of Botswana
; ...1964, the headquarters of the audit office of what were known as the High Commission Territories (Bechuanaland Protectorate, Basutoland, and Swaziland) was based in Pretoria, South Africa. Each territory had a Senior Auditor. In the case of the Bechuanaland...
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Dual legal system, Basotho culture and marital stability.
; ...customs (Maqutu, 1992:1). As Britain took over Basutoland (Lesotho) in 1868 it decided to rule by proclamation. It decided that Basutoland be annexed to the Cape of Good Hope colony. The Basutoland annexation Act of 1871, was closely followed...
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Medicine Murder in Colonial Lesotho: The Anatomy of a Moral Crisis.(Book review)
; ...medicine murders (the liretlo killings) that occurred in colonial Basutoland (now Lesotho) during the 1940s. The work is timely, given...comparison of the broader political circumstances surrounding the Basutoland medicine murders with those committed in Swaziland during...
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Lesotho Diplomat Denies Coup in Maseru
; ...Tsaka Semoko, Deputy High Commissioner, told reporters in Pretora that there was no coup attempt in his country. "The ruling Basutoland Congress Party is still in power," the senior diplomat said. Besides, South African Foreign Affairs spokesman Pieter Swanepoel...
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Rampant consumerism's chickens coming home to roost, but you can't eat them.(News)
; ...of 1929 rocked the world economy. Growing up as they did, on a farm in the Hex River Valley and in the remote mountains of Basutoland respectively, their relatively prosperous families were largely insulated from the effects of the Depression. But they also...
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Eddy Tshidiso Maloka, Basotho and the Mines: a social history of labour migrancy in Lesotho and South Africa.(Book review)
; ...mines. It is the first thorough account of migration from Basutoland (as it was then called) during the period up to the Second...The final chapter examines the coping strategies of women in Basutoland itself, creating beershops and brothels, even at this early...
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