Even though very little of Lesotho is covered in water, the rivers that run across the country are an important part of Lesotho's economy.

The Lesotho Highlands Water Project allows exporting water from the Malibamatso, Matsoku, Senqu and Senqunyane rivers to South Africa, while also generating hydroelectric power for Lesotho's needs.

The Demographics of Lesotho describe the condition and overview of Lesotho's peoples.

Lesotho has historically maintained generally close ties with Ireland ( Lesotho's largest bi-lateral aid donor ), the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and other Western states.

In 2007, the Government of Lesotho signed a compact with the Millennium Challenge Corporation to provide $ 362. 5 million in support to develop Lesotho's water sector, healthcare infrastructure, and private sector.

The first flag of Lesotho was introduced on October 4, 1966, the day of Lesotho's full independence from the United Kingdom.

* 30 April – The Prime Minister of South Africa, Pieter Willem Botha meets with Lesotho's Minister of Foreign Affairs to discusses the Lesotho Highlands Water Project

Lekhanya then became leader of the Basotho National Party ( BNP ), Lesotho's main opposition party, which only has a few seats in Parliament and, according to Lekhanya, has been the victim of fraud in the last several elections in Lesotho.

The purpose of the project is to provide Lesotho with a source of income in exchange for the provision of water to the central Gauteng province where the majority of industrial and mining activity occurs in South Africa, as well as to generate hydroelectric power for Lesotho ( currently almost 100 % of Lesotho's requirements ).

He influenced the development of law in Lesotho by contributing to the establishment of a legal structure and to the training of many local lawyers.

The holotype specimen was discovered in Lesotho and consists of a partial skull and skeleton ( UCL B54 ).

At the completion of the project, Lesotho should be almost completely self-sufficient in the production of electricity and also gain income from the sale of electricity to South Africa.

In addition to the Batswana or ' Western Sotho ', the Sotho-Tswana group includes the Basotho of Lesotho and the Orange Free State, to whom the term ' Sotho ' has come to be more specifically and almost exclusively applied.

The natural populations of this species, endemic to the southern part of Africa, have been almost completely exterminated, but the species has been reintroduced widely, both in private areas and nature reserves throughout most of Lesotho, Swaziland, South Africa, Namibia and Kenya.

The most notable geographic fact about Lesotho, apart from its status as an enclave, is that it is the only independent state in the world that lies entirely above in elevation.

Lesotho is the only independent state in the world that lies entirely above in elevation.

* Lesotho, a country in southern Africa entirely surrounded by South Africa.

It is the highest peak entirely within the Eastern Cape ; KwaDuma is higher, but it lies on the border with Lesotho.

Lesotho is a Southern African nation surrounded entirely by South Africa.

* All Basotho Convention, a political party in Lesotho

In addition to the Jonathan regime's alienation of Basotho powerbrokers and the local population, South Africa had virtually closed the country's land borders because of Lesotho support of cross-border operations of the African National Congress ( ANC ).

* Basotho National Party, a political party in Lesotho

In the 2007 Lesotho general election, the two leading parties, the Lesotho Congress for Democracy and the All Basotho Convention used decoy lists, respectively named the National Independent Party and the Lesotho Workers ' Party to avoid the compensatory mechanisms of MMP.

He helped to set the stage for the subsequent rise of Letsema Mat ' sela's band, Basotho Dihoba, which used styles from his native Lesotho to develop a genre called mohobelo.

* Lesotho → Basotho ( from Sesotho ), Mosotho ( singular )

Traditional economy of the Basotho in Lesotho is based on rearing cattle.

Bethuel Pakalitha Mosisili ( born March 14, 1945 ) is a Basotho politician who was Prime Minister of Lesotho from May 1998 to June 2012.

The main Basotho Headquarters for Help Lesotho is in Hlotse.

On expansion of Moshoeshoe's kingdom into southern Lesotho, King Moshoeshoe sent his brother Mohale to administer the area where the Baphuthi and Basotho enjoyed a rather fragile friendship.

The current national flag of Lesotho, adopted on October 4, 2006, features a horizontal blue, white, and green tricolour with a black mokorotlo ( a Basotho hat ) in the centre.

This was subsequently changed to a black Basotho hat in order to represent Lesotho as a black nation.

The mokorotlo, a local design of a straw hat, is the national symbol of the Basotho and Lesotho peoples, and of the nation of Lesotho.

He is still highly respected in the Kingdom of Lesotho for his judgment on the border issue between the Orange River Afrikaners and the Basotho of King Moshoeshoe, which, had it been implemented, would have secured the economic future of the kingdom.

Major splits from the party occurred in October 2001, when leading LCD members Kelebone Maope and Shakhane Mokhehle left the party to form the Lesotho People's Congress and in October 2006, when Tom Thabane left the party to form the All Basotho Convention.

Tom Motsoahae Thabane ( born 1939 ) is a Basotho politician who has been Prime Minister of Lesotho since June 2012.

He was a member of the Lesotho Congress for Democracy ( LCD ) and served in the government of Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili from 1998 to 2006, but in 2006 he split from the LCD and formed the All Basotho Convention.

* The Sotho people ( or Basotho ), an African ethnic group principally resident in South Africa and Lesotho.

The Gun War also known as the Basuto War was an 1880-1881 conflict in the British territory of Basutoland ( present-day Lesotho ) in Southern Africa, fought between Cape Colony forces and rebellious Basotho chiefs over tribal rights.

Similar to the Lesotho loti, there are singular and plural abbreviations, namely L and E, so where one might have an amount L1, it would be E2, E3, or E4.

While South African music is generally enjoyed in Lesotho, there is a tremendous following for famo ( contemporary Sesotho music, which features the accordion and oil can drum ) such as that by Mosotho Chakela.

When the Union of South Africa was formed in 1910 out of the main British colonies in the region, the Bechuanaland Protectorate, Basutoland ( now Lesotho ), and Swaziland ( the " High Commission Territories ") were not included, but provision was made for

In the southeast, in eastern South Africa, Swaziland, Lesotho, Zimbabwe, and southern Mozambique, they were adopted from a Tuu language or languages by the languages of the Nguni cluster ( especially Zulu, Xhosa, and Phuthi, but also to a lesser extent Swazi and Ndebele ), and spread from them in a reduced fashion to the Zulu-based pidgin Fanagalo, Sesotho, Tsonga, Ronga, the Mzimba dialect of Tumbuka, and more recently to Ndau and urban varieties of Pedi, where the spread of clicks is an ongoing process.

Water is being exploited through the 30-year, multi-billion dollar Lesotho Highlands Water Project ( LHWP ), which was initiated in 1986.

In addition to its membership in the Southern African Development Community ( SADC ), Namibia presently belongs to the Southern African Customs Union ( SACU ) with South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, and Swaziland.

Such systems, or variations of them, are used in parts of the United Kingdom ( the Greater London Authority, the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh Assembly ), Germany, Lesotho, Mexico, Bolivia and New Zealand.

Swaziland, Lesotho, Botswana, Namibia, and the Republic of South Africa form the Southern African Customs Union ( SACU ), where import duties apply uniformly to member countries.

: Algeria, Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Comoros, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia ( Beheading penalty ), Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Malawi, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Namibia, Nigeria ( death penalty in some states ), Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia ( death penalty in some states ), South Sudan, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Parties: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Angola, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Benin, Bhutan, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of Congo, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Côte d ' Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Denmark, Djibouti *, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, European Union, Fiji, Finland, France, Gabon, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Islamic Republic of Iran, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Jordan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Kiribati *, Kuwait, Lao Peoples Democratic Republic *, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Montenegro, Morocco, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Niger, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Republic of Korea, Romania, Rwanda, Saint Lucia, Samoa, São Tomé and Príncipe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Syrian Arab Republic, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United Republic of Tanzania, Uruguay, Venezuela ( Bolivarian Republic of ), Yemen, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

Tributaries in South Africa include: the Makhaleng River ( the west border of Lesotho ), Kromspruit, Bamboesspruit, Gryskopspruit, Winnaarspruit, Knoffelspruit, Wilgespruit, Nuwejaarspruit, Kraai River, Melkspruit, Sanddrifspruit, Stormbergspruit, Moddelbulspruit, Palmietspruit, Caledon River, Oudagspruit, Broekspruit, Bossiespruit, Brakspruit, Suurbergspruit, Donkerpoortspruit, Oorlogspoort River, Rietkuilspruit, Vanderwaltsfonteinspruit, Otterspoortspruit, Paaiskloofspruit, Seekoei River, Kattegatspruit, Knapsak River, Hondeblaf River, Berg River, Lemoenspruit, Vaal River, Withoekskloof, Lanyonspruit, Diep River, Brak River, Karabeeloop River, Prieska River, Rooiloop River, Kat River, Marydale River, Soutloop River, Elmboog Sloot, Eselfontein River, Matjies River, Donkerhoekspruit, Helbrandkloofspruit, Hartbeer River, Slang River, Brabees River, Molopo River, Bul River, Kourop River, Bak River, Kraalputs de Loop, Narrie se Loop, Samoep River, Kaboep River, Mik River, Hartbees River, Brak River, Matjies River, Groen River, Kahams River.

Historically, in Southern Africa, the protectorates of Bechuanaland ( now Botswana ), Basutoland ( now Lesotho ) and Swaziland were administered as High Commission Territories by the Governor-General of South Africa, who was also the British High Commissioner for Bechuanaland, Basutoland, and Swaziland, until the 1930s, with various local representatives, and subsequently by the British High Commissioner ( from 1961 Ambassador ) to South Africa, who was represented locally in each territory by a Resident Commissioner.

McLean has performed, conducted workshops and lectured at numerous universities and cultural programs in the U. S. and Caribbean ( including Cuba ), as well as in South America, Europe, Lebanon, Japan, Indonesia, South Africa, Lesotho, Botswana, Swaziland, Namibia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Madagascar and Mauritius.

The British, on the other hand, wanted to link their possessions in Southern Africa ( modern South Africa, Botswana, Malawi, Lesotho, Zimbabwe, and Zambia ), with their territories in East Africa ( modern Kenya ), and these two areas with the Nile basin.

He led his party, the Lesotho Congress for Democracy ( LCD ), to a near-total victory in the 1998 election, and under his leadership the party also won majorities in the 2002 and 2007 elections.

Moshoeshoe II ( May 2, 1938 – January 15, 1996 ), previously known as Constantine Bereng Seeiso, was the paramount chief of Lesotho, succeeding paramount chief Seeiso from 1960 until the country gained full independence from Britain in 1966.

Radio Lesedi is a 24-hour Sesotho radio station run by the SABC ( South Africa ’ s national broadcasting corporation ), broadcasting solely in Sotho. There are other regional radio stations as well throughout Lesotho and the Free State.

Mafeteng has several industrial developments including a Gap / Old Navy clothing factory and the Lesotho Pharmaceutical Company ( LPC ), which also exports to several countries in the region.

, Tab is sold in the countries of the Southern African Customs Union ( Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland ), the United States ( including the U. S. Virgin Islands ), Hong Kong, Spain and Norway.

* King Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho ( 1938 – 1996 ), King of Lesotho ( 1966 – 1970, 1970 – 1990, 1995 – 96 )