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SA Repatriation Drive May Affect Lesotho’s Migrant Workforce

South Africa's immigration authorities have processed more than 45,000 undocumented migrants as part of an ongoing repatriation initiative, according to reporting by SABC News. The scale of the operation raises concerns for Lesotho, whose citizens represent a significant portion of foreign workers in South African mines, farms, and service sectors.Lesotho's economy depends heavily on remittances...

SA Repatriation Drive May Affect Lesotho’s Migrant Workforce

South Africa's immigration authorities have processed more than 45,000 undocumented migrants as part of an ongoing repatriation initiative, according to reporting by SABC News. The scale of the operation raises concerns for Lesotho, whose citizens represent a significant portion of foreign workers in South African mines, farms, and service sectors.Lesotho's economy depends heavily on remittances...

The youngest prime minister in Lesotho

On 7 July 1965, Chief Leabua Jonathan was sworn in as prime minister of Lesotho. He remains the youngest person to hold the office in the independent country. ON this day in 1965, Chief Leabua Jonathan was sworn in as prime minister of Lesotho. He remains the youngest person to hold the office in independent...

Ho etsoa sethunya sa AK 47 lekhetlo la pele

Ka letsatsi lena, 6 Phupjane 1947, eleng letsatsi pele ho letsatsi la la 7.07.47, ho ile hoa etsoa sethunya se bitsoang AK 47. Sethunya sena se ne se etsoe ke monna ea bitsoang Mikhail Kalashnikov ea neng a sa tsebe ho etsa lithunya empa kamora hore lemale ntoeng ea lithunya ea Bryansk, a khetha hore...

Western Cape repatriation drive signals surge in returning Basotho workers

The Western Cape Government has concluded a coordinated humanitarian initiative enabling foreign nationals to voluntarily return home, according to reporting by AllAfrica News: Southern Africa. The operation underscores intensifying migration patterns within the southern African region that will likely involve substantial numbers of Basotho workers relocating from South Africa back to Lesotho.For Lesotho's government and...

Met services expects near-normal winter rain as El Niño builds

The Lesotho Meteorological Services expects near-normal to above-normal rainfall over much of the country this winter, while it watches the development of an El Niño that will shape the main rainfall season from October. THE Lesotho Meteorological Services (LMS) has forecast near-normal to above-normal rainfall over much of the eastern and central parts of the...

Where did the farmers’ M15 million go? Nobody will say

Money is deducted from wool and mohair earnings for a statutory levy, yet Revenue Services Lesotho will not say whether it ever examined how the money was handled. About this seriesThis is the first in a three-part Lesotho Tribune investigation into how BKB and the LWMGA allegedly came to hold M15 million (about US$925,000) that...

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SA Repatriation Drive May Affect Lesotho’s Migrant Workforce

South Africa's immigration authorities have processed more than 45,000 undocumented migrants as part of an ongoing repatriation initiative, according to reporting by SABC News. The scale of the operation raises concerns for Lesotho, whose citizens represent a significant portion of foreign workers in South African mines, farms, and service sectors.Lesotho's economy depends heavily on remittances...

The youngest prime minister in Lesotho

On 7 July 1965, Chief Leabua Jonathan was sworn in as prime minister of Lesotho. He remains the youngest person to hold the office in the independent country. ON this day in 1965, Chief Leabua Jonathan was sworn in as prime minister of Lesotho. He remains the youngest person to hold the office in independent...

Ho etsoa sethunya sa AK 47 lekhetlo la pele

Ka letsatsi lena, 6 Phupjane 1947, eleng letsatsi pele ho letsatsi la la 7.07.47, ho ile hoa etsoa sethunya se bitsoang AK 47. Sethunya sena se ne se etsoe ke monna ea bitsoang Mikhail Kalashnikov ea neng a sa tsebe ho etsa lithunya empa kamora hore lemale ntoeng ea lithunya ea Bryansk, a khetha hore...

Western Cape repatriation drive signals surge in returning Basotho workers

The Western Cape Government has concluded a coordinated humanitarian initiative enabling foreign nationals to voluntarily return home, according to reporting by AllAfrica News: Southern Africa. The operation underscores intensifying migration patterns within the southern African region that will likely involve substantial numbers of Basotho workers relocating from South Africa back to Lesotho.For Lesotho's government and...

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SA Repatriation Drive May Affect Lesotho’s Migrant Workforce

South Africa's immigration authorities have processed more than 45,000 undocumented migrants as part of an ongoing repatriation initiative, according to reporting by SABC News. The scale of the operation raises concerns for Lesotho, whose citizens represent a significant portion of foreign workers in South African mines, farms, and service sectors.Lesotho's economy depends heavily on remittances...

The youngest prime minister in Lesotho

On 7 July 1965, Chief Leabua Jonathan was sworn in as prime minister of Lesotho. He remains the youngest person to hold the office in the independent country. ON this day in 1965, Chief Leabua Jonathan was sworn in as prime minister of Lesotho. He remains the youngest person to hold the office in independent...

Ho etsoa sethunya sa AK 47 lekhetlo la pele

Ka letsatsi lena, 6 Phupjane 1947, eleng letsatsi pele ho letsatsi la la 7.07.47, ho ile hoa etsoa sethunya se bitsoang AK 47. Sethunya sena se ne se etsoe ke monna ea bitsoang Mikhail Kalashnikov ea neng a sa tsebe ho etsa lithunya empa kamora hore lemale ntoeng ea lithunya ea Bryansk, a khetha hore...

Western Cape repatriation drive signals surge in returning Basotho workers

The Western Cape Government has concluded a coordinated humanitarian initiative enabling foreign nationals to voluntarily return home, according to reporting by AllAfrica News: Southern Africa. The operation underscores intensifying migration patterns within the southern African region that will likely involve substantial numbers of Basotho workers relocating from South Africa back to Lesotho.For Lesotho's government and...

Met services expects near-normal winter rain as El Niño builds

The Lesotho Meteorological Services expects near-normal to above-normal rainfall over much of the country this winter, while it watches the development of an El Niño that will shape the main rainfall season from October. THE Lesotho Meteorological Services (LMS) has forecast near-normal to above-normal rainfall over much of the eastern and central parts of the...

Where did the farmers’ M15 million go? Nobody will say

Money is deducted from wool and mohair earnings for a statutory levy, yet Revenue Services Lesotho will not say whether it ever examined how the money was handled. About this seriesThis is the first in a three-part Lesotho Tribune investigation into how BKB and the LWMGA allegedly came to hold M15 million (about US$925,000) that...

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SA Repatriation Drive May Affect Lesotho’s Migrant Workforce

South Africa's immigration authorities have processed more than 45,000 undocumented migrants as part of an ongoing repatriation initiative, according to reporting by...