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Chapter 2 - SADF Speaks...
… South Africa, 1992 At 1 a.m. on Thursday, 9 December 1982, Lesotho was held captive by the moon. It was a beautiful clear moonlit night as only Lesotho…
BiographyMatthew Goniwe
… Stofile to the chief of the ANC’s underground mission in Lesotho, Chris Hani , later to become the leader of the ANC’s …
Chapter 5 - Basotho - Their Last Supper
… South Africa, 1992 Into this sketchy collage which is Lesotho, the SADF came with enormous firepower to kill "ANC … was a boy, a 14-year-old scholar. After…
ArticlePolitical changes from 1750 to 1835
… Sotho people reformed to establish the country we know as Lesotho. KwaZulu Natal was the part of South Africa that … the Ndebele that replaced the Rozwi,…
EventSouth African Defence Force (SADF) raid Maseru in an effort to kill suspected members of the African National Congress
… African Defence Force commandos crossed the border into Lesotho. Their target was a cluster of houses on the … were believed to be in hiding. Meeting no…
ArticleTreks & Land conflicts timeline 1602-1966
… Basotho's, land. March, Basutoland, which later becomes Lesotho, under king Moshoeshoe, becomes a British protectorate. 1966 Lesotho gains its independence…
ArticleTreks & Land conflicts 1600s-1800s
… the Basotho, under Moshoeshoe, created their own homeland, Lesotho, and retained their identity to a degree. In America …
EventThozamile Botha breaks banning order
… Thozamile Botha broke his banning order and escaped to Lesotho. PEBCO was an affiliate of the banned United … Thozamile Botha studied BA Law with the…
Political revolution between 1820 and 1835
… Mountains in the present-day Free State Province and Lesotho). Such violent activities are associated with the … The Caledon Valley (located on the border of…
ArticleRock art as an expression of hunter-gatherer society and world-view
… observed a descendant of ancient rock artists in Lesotho in the 1930's, and like any other artist he made his … it was carved in. Source: www.lando.co.za The…
PlaceMangaung Metropolitan Municipality, Free State
… - Provinces. As well as; the neighboring Country of: ' Lesotho '. Formed after the local Government elections in May …
Le Rona Re Batho (An account of the 1982 Maseru Massacre) by Phyllis Naidoo, South Africa, 1992
… Seoli Chapter 2 - SADF Speaks... Chapter 3 - Historical Lesotho Chapter 4 - Poor, yet generous Lesotho Chapter 5 - Basotho - Their Last Supper Chapter 6 - …
ArticleFrontline States
… called the Frontline States. These were Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia and, from …
Dumile Feni biography by Sophia Reuss
… at Expo 67 in Montreal in 1966. In 1967, Dumile visited Lesotho with friends Ngatane and Lucas Sibiya. In Lesotho, the three worked, exhibited, and…
EventOne person killed by bomb meant for Chris Hani
… of Chris Hani, then Umkhonto We Sizwe (MK) commander in Lesotho. Eben Frederick Coetzee, a department head of the SAP … This led to several attempts on the…
PlaceFicksburg
… the Maluti Mountains. Ficksburg is the closest town to the Lesotho border. This small village is not only a busy trading … Trail. Ficksburg is a gateway to…
Chapter 6 - No more suppers for my comrades
… by Phyllis Naidoo, South Africa, 1992 The raid into Lesotho, not only killed 12 Basotho but also 30 South … all Black South Africans. Some were students at…
Le Rona Re Batho by Phyllis Naidoo - Introduction
… by Phyllis Naidoo, South Africa, 1992 After the raid into Lesotho on Thursday, 9 December 1982, I started writing about … his/ her trauma. Until some of us…
PlacePhuthaditjhaba, Free State
… border lies the province of KwaZulu-Natal; while Lesotho is on the south-west of the town. It was established … border lies the province of KwaZulu-Natal;…
Press Conference in Maputo: Comments by Oliver Tambo on South African offer of territory to Swaziland, 5 March 1982
… States, in which it would like to see as members Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland as well as the independent bantustans. … kinds of adjustments and…
EventFather Michael Lapsley, an Anglican priest, is injured by a letter-bomb
… the 1976 student uprising. Father Lapsley then moved to Lesotho and later Harare, Zimbabwe, where he served as a … chaplain in the ANC. In 1982, Father…
ArticleSALDRU Newspaper Clippings Archive 1974 - 2000
… IR Workers Organizations House and Hostels General Labour Lesotho General Malawi Manpower General Namibia Mozambique …
Mission Stations - N-S
… the 1850-1853 Border conflict and rebuilt in 1853. PEKA , Lesotho: P 1907 PELANDABA , Herschel, Cape: see FORT HOOK , … , Middledrift, Cape PHALANE ,…
EventTito Mboweni, former Governor of the SA Reserve Bank, is born in Tzaneen
… University of Limpopo). However, he went into exile in Lesotho in 1980, before he could complete his studies. While in Lesotho, he joined the ANC and…
BiographyChief Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi
… he authorised South Africa’s military intervention into Lesotho to restore the ill-fated elected government there. …
PlaceMaloti-Drakensburg Park
… Park in South Africa and the Sehlathebe National Park in Lesotho. The site has exceptional natural beauty in its … Coprotheres) and the Bearded Vulture …
PlaceOrange River
… It rises in the Drakensberg in Lesotho ( where it is known as the Senqu ) it flows westward … at Alexander Bay . At the source of the Orange River, in…
EventLadybrand Four story told at the TRC
… by members of the Orange Free State Security Branch in Lesotho . Betty Boom was a Commander and highly trained MK … was involved in a shoot-out with the…
Zastron
… feet). Close to the border of that mountainous country Lesotho, this territory is stark and beautiful. The town is … the province of the Free State and its…
ArticleThe Mfecane: Understanding a Period of Transformation in Southern Africa
… Moshoeshoe consolidated eventually became the Kingdom of Lesotho - one of the few African states to resist complete … the Ndebele (who replaced the Rozwi),…