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...January, the nation's first national elections were ruled invalid by the Prime Minister, Chief Leabua Jonathan, when it became apparent that his party was about to lose. Jonathan, a chief of Lesotho's major tribe, the Basuto, had King Moshoeshoe (pronounced Mo-shway-shway) put under house arrest for daring to support the opposition. Last week the king was whisked off to exile in The Netherlands...
Lesotho has some diamonds, but never enough to bolster a viable economy; abundant water, but a dearth of arable land. Sixty thousand Basuto men are driven to South Africa every year to work on the mines and farms, and their earnings there constitute the country's main source of income...
Lesotho is an enclave of South Africa, and that fact is both her destiny and her special dilemma. For reasons of economy and geography, no Basuto government could ever afford to actively oppose the doctrines of White domination...
Lesotho. The P.M. journeyed to Pre toria in a South African air force plane to talk business. Lesotho will be entirely surrounded by South African territory and is heavily dependent on Verwoerd's economy since thousands of Basuto regularly flock to South African gold mines for jobs. But Chief Jonathan has something to offer in return: water for South Africa's parched farmlands, and some spit and polish for the image Verwoerd would like to project to the world as a man reasonable to his black neighbors if not his black countrymen. The talk was friendly enough...
...majority in the new 'National Assembly was the conservative Basutoland National Party, dedicated to close ties with South Africa's apartheid-minded regime. The Nationalists were helped to victory by the South African government, which encouraged them to visit Rand mines for electioneering among the thousands of Basuto laborers who planned to go home to vote. No such campaigning facilities were permitted the Peking-backed Basutoland Congress Party, a bitter enemy of the government of Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd. Nevertheless, Congress won 25 of the 60 seats in the Assembly and vowed to carry on its campaign...