Basotho
Noun
Meaning
a member of a subgroup of people who inhabit Lesotho
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Examples
Basotho residents of Basotholand had access to better health services and to education, and came to experience greater political emancipation through independence.
However, the ABC’s 1 and 2 February 2019 elective conference showed me that Basotho held me in high esteem because I got 700 plus votes to land the deputy spokesperson’s post.
One view states that the first of these were marauding Zulu clans, displaced from Zululand as part of the Lifaqane (or Mfecane ), wrought havoc on the Basotho peoples they encountered as they moved first west and then north.
AT least 71 000 out of the half a million food insecure Basotho are “one step away from famine”, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has said.
It has always worried me that many Basotho do not have adequate water, many have no electricity, no jobs yet we have important natural resources which could be utilised to provide jobs.
Mofomobe, who is also the Basotho National Party (BNP) deputy leader, exactly did that.