Why corruption, not poverty, now defines Lesotho’s deepest fear

There are years when a country worries about prices. Other years, about jobs. And then there are years when the anxiety shifts deeper, when citizens stop arguing about outcomes and begin questioning the system itself. For Lesotho, 2025 appears to have been one of those years. A series of reader polls conducted by Lesotho Tribune in late December, across X, lesothotribune.co.ls and Facebook, do not read like a protest. They read more like a diagnosis. The sample size is small, yes, but…Continue reading with a subscriptionSubscribe for full access to every story.Subscribe - M85/monthAlready a subscriber? Sign in Advertisement ...