Youth Organisations Unite Against Attempt to Withdraw Disaster Declaration for Unemployment

On April 2025, a coalition of youth organisations submitted a request to the office of Prime Minister Sam Matekane to declare a youth employment as a state of emergency. This letter was responded to by the Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office, Limpho Tau, on May 2025, indicating that the office has taken note of the matter and that the government was currently considering it. He had highlighted that the Lesotho Disaster Management Board, which is mandated by the Disaster Management Act of 1997 to advise the Prime…Continue reading with a subscriptionSubscribe for full access to every story.Subscribe - M85/monthAlready a subscriber? Sign in Advertisement ...