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A Lesotho parliamentarian behind the ambitious petition to reclaim huge territories from SA is a long-time land campaigner whose party and election bid were founded on the push for the return of land.

Is a territorial upheaval brewing between South Africa and neighbouring Lesotho? On Wednesday parliamentarians in the small inland country debated a motion to reclaim large parts of South Africa forcibly seized by the apartheid government.

Users have gone to Twitter saying, 'we've got enough problems already in South Africa. If you want the Free State, please take it'.

Should parts of South Africa be incorporated in Lesotho?

Lesotho MP wants the boundaries of Lesotho expanded into the Free State and parts of the Northern Cape, Eastern Cape, Mpumalanga and KZN.

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Lesotho legislators are debating a motion that proposes reclaiming large parts of South African land that Dutch settlers seized from the small mountain kingdom in a series of territorial wars in the 19th century. | 12:36pm

Lesotho legislators are debating a motion that proposes reclaiming large parts of South African land that Dutch settlers seized from the small mountain kingdom in a series of territorial wars in the 19th century.

Lesotho: The Ministry of Education and Training intends to improve Education

Lawmakers in Lesotho were to discuss on Wednesday whether the country should seek to reclaim large swathes of land from powerful neighbour South Africa.

The motion, based on a 1962 UN resolution, aims to ‘return’ South Africa’s entire Free State and four other regions.