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Leonora van den Heever
Van den Heever was born in Windhoek in 1926 but attended school in Bloemfontein. She went on to complete her MA in English at the University of Pretoria, and…
BiographyMangaliso Patrick Mkhatshwa
Mangaliso Patrick Mkhatshwa, a Catholic priest, was restricted to Pretoria under the Internal Security Act. Mkhatshwa was detained from August to December 1976…
ArticleRace and ethnicity in South Africa
… the entire population of Swaziland. At least 1.3 million Sesotho speakers live in Lesotho, and more than 1 million … isiNdebele are Nguni languages. Sepedi …
The National Anthem
… in Xhoza were later added by the poet, Samuel Mqhayi. A Sesotho version was published by Moses Mphahlele in 1942. … stanza is generally sung in Xhosa or Zulu…
BiographyElijah Thomas Zondi
Elijah Thomas Zondi was born on 22 October 1917 in Pietermaritzburg to Thomas Zondi, an evangelist and Bellinah Mchunu. He attended the Burnside Community…
BiographySister Bernard Ncube
Sister Bernard Ncube was born in Johannesburg in 1932. She attended Roma College in Lesotho, where she received a diploma in Theology and in 1955 she entered…
BiographyJacob Mpemba
Jacob Mpembe’s banishment order, dated 23 October 1962 stated that he was a listed communist who said that ‘there is nothing done by the Government except…
BiographyMosima Gabriel (Tokyo) Sexwale
Tokyo Sexwale was born in Orlando West, Johannesburg as the third of six children of Godlieve and Frank Sexwale. He grew up amid the turmoil of the Black…
SPEECH BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA AT THE OPENING OF THE LESOTHO HIGHLANDS WATER PROJECT KATSE, 22 JANUARY 1998
SPEECH BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA AT THE CORONATION OF KING LETSIE III OF LESOTHO Maseru, 31 October 1997
South Africa and Lesotho exchange prisoners across the Caledon River, heralding a new rapprochement and a lifting of strict bor
Adolphe Mabille, Swiss missionary in Basutoland (Lesotho) and compiler of a Sotho-English glossary which he expanded and still
President Thabo Mbeki congratulates Lesotho’s Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili on his election to a third term in office, acco
Demonstrators close down businesses and government offices in Lesotho to protest election results, while a week-old mutiny by a
Riots spread through Lesotho after King Letsie III dissolved the country’s first democratically elected government for 20 years
SA signs memorandum of agreement with Lesotho regarding the design, construction and maintenance of the international border br
The Lesotho government announces that an undisclosed number of South African refugees have decided voluntarily to withdraw from
Dissident soldiers shoot dead Lesotho’s deputy prime minister and seize four cabinet ministers in a mutiny over a planned gover
Adolphe Mabille, Swiss missionary, Sotho philologist and Bible translator, dies at Morija, Basutoland (Lesotho) where he was st
SA signs Protocol IV to the treaty on the Lesotho Highlands Water Project including supplementary arrangements regarding Phase
Sixty ANC refugees are airlifted out of Lesotho to counter South Africa’s threat of a blockade against that country.
BiographyZacharia Solly Shoke
Zacharia Solomon Shoke was born on 15 August 1956 in Alexandra Township, Johannesburg. Shoke received his education at Orlando High School, Soweto Township,…
Bennie Bethuel Albert RaKhoapa Khoapa
Bennie Bethuel Albert RaKhoapa Khoapa was born in 1937,he grew up in Matatiela in the Transkei,He graduated from Adama College in 1956,and attended Jan Hofmeyr…
BiographyZachius Botlhoko Molete
Zachius Botlhoko Molete was born in 1930 in Winburg in the Orange Free State of mixed Tswana-Ndebele parentage. His father was a teacher. He spent 1949 and…
BiographyJulius C. Malie
He began his education in Basutoland, he later studied at Lovedale and the University of the Witwatersrand. He worked at various times for the YMCA, the South…
BiographySicelo Shiceka
Sicelo Shiceka was born on 8 June 1966 in the village of Ingquza Hill, near Flagstaff, Lusikisiki in the Eastern Province (now Eastern Cape) His greatest…
BiographyElizabeth Mafekeng
Elizabeth Mafekeng was born in 1918 in Tarkastad and attended school until Standard 7. Living conditions in her birthplace forced her to leave for Paarl in…