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Posts published by “Shoks Mnisi Mzolo”

Walking in the footsteps of Lesotho’s founder to trace a timeless heritage

Beyond luscious hills, neat fields upon neat fields of vegetables and Lesotho’s achingly beautiful landscape is a story of little known 19th-century founder king who forged alliances to maintain peace but humbled each attacker.

Remembering John Maroo – a freedom fighter who defied jail and banishment and paid with his life

In the aftermath of Maseru, a massacre that claimed 42 lives (including two children), Maroo’s “blood-stained suit was vivid in telling his near-death story that he neither had a chance or a heart to tell”, noted Lebo, who went to exile with her father in 1978, never to meet again. To mitigate, ANC’s top brass redeployed its operatives to Lusaka.