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3 unusual facts about Lesotho


Amy Jacot Guillarmod

In 1956/7 she became Head of the Botany Department of the Pius XII College in Roma.

Marang Centre for Mathematics and Science Education

In addition to South African undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate future science and mathematics teachers, would-be teachers and teacher educators come from Southern African Development Community (SADC) member nations such as Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi', Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, and other African countries.

Moshoeshoe

Moshoeshoe I, c.1786-1870; paramount chief of southern Sotho; founder of Basuto kingdom (later Basutoland, then Lesotho)


Beaufort Series

The Beaufort Series covers the entire Karoo, Transkei, Pondoland, eastern Orange Free State and western Natal, while the overlying Stormberg Series covers the entire Lesotho and surrounding areas.

Drakensberg

Fish are found in the many rivers and streams including the Maluti Redfin (Pseudobarbus quathlambae), which was thought to be extinct but has been found in the Senqunyane River in Lesotho.

Erythrina zeyheri

The Plough-breaker (Erythrina zeyheri, named after Karl Zeyher) is a deciduous subshrub from South Africa and Lesotho growing no more than 60 cm tall.

Famo

in 1974 he even declared himself "King of Famo" at a concert at Maseru's Airport Hotel that was attended by Her Majesty 'MaMohato, wife of Lesotho's King Moshoeshoe II.

Foreign relations of Lesotho

In 13 November 1997, Liz O'Donnell (Irish Minister for State) spoke about the relationship between the two nations and Ireland's future commitment towards Lesotho.

The United States was one of the first four countries to establish an embassy in Maseru after Lesotho gained its independence from Great Britain in 1966.

Gei Zantzinger

He directed and produced films about the musics of Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Cape Verde, Lesotho, South Africa, and Brittany.

Graff Diamonds

The Letseng Legacy diamond was unearthed from the same mine as the Lesotho Promise Letseng diamond mine in 2008 and totalled 493cts.

History of Lesotho

The present Lesotho (then called Basutoland) emerged as a single polity under paramount chief Moshoeshoe I in 1822.

A military government chaired by Justin Lekhanya ruled Lesotho in coordination with King Moshoeshoe II and a civilian cabinet appointed by the King.

Joy F.C.

Joy F.C. is a Lesotho football club based in Leribe.

Kellelo Justina Masafo-Guni

Kellelo Justina Masafo-Guni (born December 8, 1945 in Leribe, Lesotho) is a Justice on the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights.

Kome Caves

The Kome Cave Dwellings are located in the Berea District about a half an hours drive from Teyateyaneng, the capital of the Berea District, and an hours drive from Maseru, the capital of the Maseru District and Lesotho.

The Kome Caves are a group of cave dwellings made out of mud in the district of Berea, Lesotho.

Ladybrand

Ladybrand is a small agricultural town in the Free State province of South Africa, situated 18 km from Maseru, the capital of Lesotho.

Leribe

Hlotse or Leribe, market town in Lesotho founded in 1876

LM Radio

LM Radio broadcasts on 87.8 FM in Maputo and surrounding areas including Matola, on 87.8 FM in Ponta do Ouro, on 104 FM from Maseru in Lesotho covering parts the central Free State province of South Africa and on satellite in Southern Africa and webstreaming.

Moorosi campaign

The campaign against King Moorosi, leader of the Baphuthi people, was launched in southern Basutoland (today's Lesotho) in 1879 by the Cape Colony and was fought largely by members of the Cape Mounted Riflemen.

Mophato Monyake

Mophato Moshoete Monyake (born 29 April 1961) is a Lesotho politician with the All Basotho Convention.

Morosi's Mountain

Impregnable on three sides and accessible only on the fourth, the 1,500-foot-high mountain was the site of a war in southern Basutoland (modern Lesotho) in1879 that preceded the Gun War, also known as the Basuto War.

Mosotho Chakela

He owns 13 liqueur stores, 7 of which are located in the capital city of Lesotho, Maseru.

Netball in Lesotho

Lesotho has a national netball league, and has participated in as well as hosted several netball tournaments.

Phuthi language

Phuthi is spoken in dozens (perhaps many dozens) of scattered communities in the border areas between where the far northern Eastern Cape meets Lesotho: from Herschel northwards and eastwards, and in the Matatiele area of the northeastern Transkei; and throughout southern Lesotho, from Quthing in the southwest, through regions south and east of Mount Moorosi, to mountain villages west and north of Qacha (Qacha's Nek).

(Qacha is the main southeastern town in Lesotho, in the Qacha's Nek District).

Prince Lerotholi Seeiso

Prince Lerotholi was baptized as David at the Roman Catholic St. Louis Church at Matsieng on 2 June 2007 by the head of the Roman Catholic Church in Lesotho, Archbishop Bernard Mohlalisi.

Qacha's Nek

The town is home to Lesotho's first and only Snake Park, which is conveniently situated at the foot of the historic Letloepe hill/rock formation, where the cave of Qacha, the son of Baphuthi's Chief Moorosi and after whom the town is named, is situated.

Quthing

Quthing lies in the southern part of Lesotho and borders the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.

Rockcliffe Park Public School

Rockcliffe is twinned with Mokoena Primary School in Butha-Buthe, Lesotho.

Sally Sara

Sara wrote a chapter in the book South Africa Lesotho & Swaziland by Mary Fitzpatrick.

Sisters of the Precious Blood

Society of the Precious Blood - An Anglican order of Augustinian nuns, founded in 1905, active in England and Lesotho

Sophie Chandauka

In January 2009, Chandauka was appointed to the Board of Trustees of Sentebale ('Forget Me Not' in Sesotho), the African children's charity that was established by Prince Seeiso of Lesotho and Prince Harry to help vulnerable children and young people in Lesotho, particularly those who have been orphaned as a result of HIV/AIDS.

Sotho phonology

The most stereotypical French-like pronunciations are found in certain rural areas of Lesotho, as well as some areas of Soweto (where this has had an impact on the pronunciation of Tsotsitaal).

The uvular pronunciation is largely attributed to the influence of French missionaries at Morija in Lesotho.

Telecom Lesotho

In 2007 Telecom Lesotho and Econet Lesotho merged to form Econet Telecom Lesotho The company publishes an online telephone directory and operates a Web portal in partnership with AC Braby.

Timor-Leste at the 2012 Summer Olympics

The East Timorese athlete finished the competition in 2:45:09 and placed 84th out of the 85 finishing competitors, displacing Tsepo Ramonene of Lesotho (2:55:54) but falling behind Juan Carlos Cardona of Colombia (2:40:13).

Tsitana tsita

It is found from Winterberg and Amatolas in the eastern Cape along the Drakensberg into Lesotho and KwaZulu-Natal down to sea level from Durban across the midlands to the Tugela, the Orange Free State, the eastern part of the North West Province and Gauteng into the Limpopo Province.

United States Ambassador to Lesotho

An embassy in Maseru was established on October 4, 1966, Lesotho’s independence day.

Vassula Ryden

He took a new position with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) department of the United Nations in Lesotho from 1981 to 1983, then worked again for SIDA from 1984 to 1987 in Bangladesh.


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