Category: Short history of Lesotho

Writes Stephen Gill Introduction: Makhoarane as a site of cultural ferment In mid-1833, just nine years after Moshoeshoe and his people established themselves at Thaba-Bosiu, the citadel and ‘mother’ of the Basotho nation, from which Moshoeshoe was able to expand many-fold the territory under his suzerainty, ‘teachers of peace’ arrived to add a new element […]

Writes Manyathela Kheleli The history of the Basotho nation recognises the exodus of the nation from Menkhoaneng to Thaba Bosiu by the great King Moshoeshoe I and his people in 1824 as the turning point in history that marks the formation and the fortification of the Basotho nation that we know today. In a story […]