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Go well, sweet mother! ROMA-Chieftainess Mabela Seeiso Maama, who died of Covid-19-related complications on February 5, has been described as a firm, frank and fair character by his fellow chiefs in the Senate. Chieftainess Maama died at Queen Mamohato Memorial Hospital. She was 72. The chiefs said the death of Chieftainess Maama, who was the principal chief of Roma, Ha-Maama, had left a void that shall never be truly filled in the family of chiefs in Lesotho. A sweet but fearless mother who always ensured the welfare of her people, a loyal servant that always ensured that their needs were ti...

Ministry seeks diamond amnesty extension Ministry seeks diamond amnesty extension Bereng Mpaki THE Ministry of Mining is considering extending the deadline of the amnesty it gave to all holders of illegal diamonds to surrender them to government. Last November, parliament passed the Precious Stones (Prevention of Illicit and Theft of Diamonds) Regulations of 2020 to allow holders of illegal diamonds to hand them over to the government on or before 31 January 2021 without fear of arrest. Ministry spokesperson ‘Makananelo Motseko said only 100 diamonds of varying sizes had been surrende...

WFP Lesotho Country Brief, January 2021 Format In Numbers 9,804 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Lesotho including 210 deaths and 2,888 recoveries (10 February 2021) US$ 10.8 m six months (February 2021–July 2021) net funding requirements 343,410 People targeted in 2021 Operational Updates • On 02 February 2021, following the Right Honourable Prime Minister’s speech on COVID-19 mitigation measures, Lesotho moved back to Orange colour coding stage, implying no movements across borders except for essential goods and services. • All ten districts of Lesotho are currently classified to be i...

Until no child has AIDS.

Back to the land MASERU-SINCE time immemorial, Basotho have been a farming people, but few focused on agriculture as a business as many grew crops or reared animals for their own family subsistence. Others would simply leave their family plots to travel to neighbouring South Africa to look for jobs in the mines and farms there. The culture has been changing in recent years, as young Basotho take to farming as a way of creating wealth, especially as jobs in South Africa’s mines become scarce due to retrenchments that started in the 1990s. With formal employment also hard to get in Lesotho, l...