Lesotho urges SA to help reverse economic costs of colonialism, apartheid

Lesotho would not exist without the support of South Africa.
The majority of its working aged people work in SA under a special dispensation and send their earnings back home to keep the country afloat.
99% of its imports come from South Africa.
It derives a heap of cash from selling water to SA from it dams. |
Lesotho is just a pretend country. It more like a poor province of SA.
 
The Free Radical said:
Lesotho would not exist without the support of South Africa.
The majority of its working aged people work in SA under a special dispensation and send their earnings back home to keep the country afloat.
99% of its imports come from South Africa.
It derives a heap of cash from selling water to SA from it dams. |
Lesotho is just a pretend country. It more like a poor province of SA.
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where the petrol is cheaper.
 
Jakobus-9 said:
Foreign affairs minister Limpho Tau lists land dispossession, migrant labour and apartheid-era raids as historical injustices.

Tau, says South Africa has a moral obligation to help lift Lesotho out of poverty because of historical injustices that contributed to the kingdom’s economic underdevelopment.

Also mentioned that "hut taxes" was introduced by the British, so forcing Basotho men to go work in SA mines. Because they needed cash to pay these "hut taxes".

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Am I too dof to get this... Does this minister Tau think Lesotho is poor and South Africa rich?

As for the hut taxes introduced by the British - there's another place called Britain - maybe he should talk to them. For a Foreign Affairs minister this person is pretty clueless IMHO!
 
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Jakobus-9 said:
Foreign affairs minister Limpho Tau lists land dispossession, migrant labour and apartheid-era raids as historical injustices.

Tau, says South Africa has a moral obligation to help lift Lesotho out of poverty because of historical injustices that contributed to the kingdom’s economic underdevelopment.

Also mentioned that "hut taxes" was introduced by the British, so forcing Basotho men to go work in SA mines. Because they needed cash to pay these "hut taxes".

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/art...t-item&dm_medium=card-link&dm_campaign=inform
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More poor me, poor victims, sob stories.

The Basutho willingly joined the British Empire as a British protectorate. Their king Moshoeshoe wrote to the British governor pleading for help against the Boers who were expanding into their land and killing them. In diplomacy every alliance comes with a cost. He had to exchange independance for survival.

If it wasn't for the British there would be no Lesotho today.
 
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The Free Radical said:
Lesotho would not exist without the support of South Africa.
The majority of its working aged people work in SA under a special dispensation and send their earnings back home to keep the country afloat.
99% of its imports come from South Africa.
It derives a heap of cash from selling water to SA from it dams. |
Lesotho is just a pretend country. It more like a poor province of SA.
Click to expand...

Curious. What will happen if we stop buying water from them?

Ama glug glug ...? :unsure:
 
Jakobus-9 said:
Foreign affairs minister Limpho Tau lists land dispossession, migrant labour and apartheid-era raids as historical injustices.

Tau, says South Africa has a moral obligation to help lift Lesotho out of poverty because of historical injustices that contributed to the kingdom’s economic underdevelopment.

Also mentioned that "hut taxes" was introduced by the British, so forcing Basotho men to go work in SA mines. Because they needed cash to pay these "hut taxes".

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/art...t-item&dm_medium=card-link&dm_campaign=inform
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These okes already have starlink, now they want land.
 
Sensorei said:
More poor me, poor victims, sob stories.

The Basutho willingly joined the British Empire as a British protectorate. Their king Moshoeshoe wrote to the British governor pleading for help against the Boers who were expanding into their land and killing them. In diplomacy every alliance comes with a cost. He had to exchange independance for survival.

If it wasn't for the British there would be no Lesotho today.
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I suppose the Boers would say they were retaliating against the Basotho's who were stealing their cattle. Not new, the residents of Sterkspruit near the Lesotho border had a march yesterday demanding the SA government build better border fences to keep the Basotho's out of SA. Nothing new maybe?
 
Oldfut said:
I suppose the Boers would say they were retaliating against the Basotho's who were stealing their cattle. Not new, the residents of Sterkspruit near the Lesotho border had a march yesterday demanding the SA government build better border fences to keep the Basotho's out of SA. Nothing new maybe?
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Other way around. It was the Boers stealing cattle from the Basotho. The Boers in that region got most of their cattle by trading with the Basotho in the first place.
 
So, Lesotho has been an independent country since 1966. That's 60 years of self-government. At some point, responsibility for the country's successes and failures has to rest with its own leadership rather than continuing to blame colonialism.

fark, if the british stayed you would be more first world country and less zim.


Lesotho is a landlocked country, and much of its water naturally flows into South Africa through the Orange River system. Yet, under the Lesotho Highlands Water Project, South Africa pays Lesotho between 3.6 and 6 billion rand in royalties each year for water flowing naturally from Lesotho into SA

What if we don't pay ? are you going to stop the orange river? Lesotho will become a dam. please drown yourself.

Lesotho also imports around 50% of its electricity from South Africa through eskom and still pay less than south africans.

Despite these significant economic benefits lesotho demanding even more support. gfy
 
Sensorei said:
Other way around. It was the Boers stealing cattle from the Basotho. The Boers in that region got most of their cattle by trading with the Basotho in the first place.
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Maybe we are both wrong on a technicality; it was the Boers pushing into land north of the Caledon R. Three wars nogal.

sahistory.org.za

Basotho Wars 1858 - 1868

The conflict between the Basotho people and White settlers in what is now the Free State/Lesotho area, consisted of three wars (1858- 68).
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qscwbt said:
So, Lesotho has been an independent country since 1966. That's 60 years of self-government. At some point, responsibility for the country's successes and failures has to rest with its own leadership rather than continuing to blame colonialism.

fark, if the british stayed you would be more first world country and less zim.


Lesotho is a landlocked country, and much of its water naturally flows into South Africa through the Orange River system. Yet, under the Lesotho Highlands Water Project, South Africa pays Lesotho between 3.6 and 6 billion rand in royalties each year for water flowing naturally from Lesotho into SA

What if we don't pay ? are you going to stop the orange river? Lesotho will become a dam. please drown yourself.

Lesotho also imports around 50% of its electricity from South Africa through eskom and still pay less than south africans.

Despite these significant economic benefits lesotho demanding even more support. gfy
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What is natural about 82km worth of water tunnels?1782998065021.png

If you didn't have the tunnels, the water would either end up in KZN or the Orange River, not in the Vaal dam for Gauteng.
 
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