Lesotho Politics

An understanding of the political landscape in Lesotho is helpful to better contextualise the dispute between FSG and GOL.

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Lesotho politics is highly factionalised with a succession of unstable coalition governments over the past few decades.  Political violence including assassinations have occurred on multiple occasions.  It is FSG's belief that the well known rivalry between Dr Moeketsi Majoro and former Prime Minister Thomas Thabane was an additional key factor in why Dr Majoro obstructed the FSG project.  In simple terms, FSG believes that Dr Majoro did not want the positive attributes of the FSG project to accrue to his political rival Mr Thabane.

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Although Dr Majoro and Mr Thabane are in the same political party they are fierce rivals.  Throughout the period relevant to the FSG project there was tension between Majoro and Thabane.  The two screenshots below bear witness to the ongoing tension.  The first image is from June 2018 and the second in October 2021.  It appears nothing has changed between these rivals over the past three years.