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In the wake of a methane gas explosion that claimed the lives of 31 people at a decommissioned mining shaft near Welkom in South Africa, a zama zama from Lesotho explains the desperation that drove him to look for gold underground.
With seven months in power, Lesotho Prime Minister Sam Matekane has been challenged by civil society groups in the mountain kingdom to address outstanding human rights issues inherited from previous regimes, and to enact instruments to protect people's rights.
JOHANNESBURG — Lesotho legislators are debating a motion that proposes reclaiming large parts of South African land that Dutch settlers seized from the small…
Unable to change the country’s vulnerability to shifts in the global and regional economy, the new prime minister Matekane has few economic levers to pull.