Welcome To The Mountain Kingdom
HIS MAJESTY KING LETSIE III 60TH BIRTHDAY
2023
Fuel prices will increase again starting on Wednesday (04 October 2023) and have this time increased by 10 lisente in both grades of petrol while
A few hours ahead of Lesotho’s 57th independence, the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) is continuing with official announcements of Local Government Elections held countrywide last
His Majesty King Letsie III is expected to launch the commemoration of the Lesotho’s 200 anniversary since King Moshoeshoe I founded the Basotho nation at
Lesotho is largely covered in grasses, although trees also appear on the landscape. Indigenous trees include Cape willows, cheche bush (used for fuel), and wild olives. Other willows and white poplars have been introduced into the country.
Lesotho, a high-altitude, landlocked kingdom encircled by South Africa, is crisscrossed by a network of rivers and mountain ranges including the 3,482m-high peak of Thabana Ntlenyana. On the Thaba Bosiu plateau, near Lesotho’s capital, Maseru, are ruins dating from the 19th-century reign of King Moshoeshoe I. Thaba Bosiu overlooks iconic Mount Qiloane, an enduring symbol of the nation’s Basotho people.
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