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		The Basotho in the mountains are subsistence farmers and unemployment is very high.
		The goal of the International Mission Board in Lesotho is to establish a church planting movement among Baptist churches in Lesotho.
		The Basotho Team, IMB missionaries and local church leaders, seek to serve these pastors and their churches through Leadership Training in these church growth principles as well as equipping lay leaders to this task.
	www.basotho.org (0 words)

	Basotho Cultural Village
		It is here that the Basotho Cultural Village nestles in the heart of the Qwaqwa National Park some mere stone's throw away from the world-renowned Golden Gate area.
		The heart of the visitor is won over by the majesty of the surrounding landscape and by the spiritual ethos of the beautiful Basotho people dancing, singing and rejoicing in sheer well-being and to their heart's content.
		A social ecologist and a ngaka (healer) escort the groups on this fascinating trail and their speciality is locating an array of grasses, roots, herbs, leaves and bark in the veld and then explaining how these are prepared to cure ailments ranging from toothache to sexually transmitted diseases, or again their ritual use.
	www.places.co.za /html/basothovillage.html (602 words)

	IALHI News Service: Basotho and the Mines
		Most of the chapter literally discusses the various modes of transportation the Basotho employed in traveling to the mines, and it is not until the end of the chapter that the author discusses how the Basotho rationalized this experience.
		However, the Basotho were not passive about this and the miners and chiefs sought to insure greater compensation.
		Through organizations and the acts of individual miners, Basotho families were informed about the death of a relative and efforts were undertaken to ensure the return of the body to Lesotho for a proper burial.
	www.iisg.nl /~ialhi/news/i0609_15.php (1275 words)

	Basotho
		The Basotho are a group of tribes united under King Moshoeshoe I during the early 1800s.
		Outside the boarders of Lesotho, in South Africa, the 3 million Basotho reside primarily in townships and on farms.
		The traditional religion of the Basotho involves the worship of the balimo, the ancestor spirits.
	cesa.imb.org /peoplegroups/basotho.htm (209 words)

	The Basotho
		The Basotho tribe is the only nation south of the Sahara that illustrates the culture of an entire nation through such an individualistic item as the tribal blanket.
		All the traditions of the Basothos have been preserved in the Basotho Cultural Village, which is open to the public.
		The heart of the visitor is finally won over by the majesty of the surrounding landscape and by the spiritual ethos of the beautiful Basotho people dancing, singing and rejoicing in sheer well being and to their heart's content.
	www.encounter.co.za /article/141.html (702 words)

	Basotho Tribal blankets at e-cottage
		The first of these famous blankets was produced not long after the founding of the Basotho nation in 1833.
		With the growth of the nation it became physically and financially impossible for everyone to obtain and afford a kaross.
		The Basotho became attached to certain familiar designs and styles to which they gave their own names, such as Sutha ke fete (Give way that I may pass) or Serope sa motsoetse (the thigh of a woman in labour).
	www.futureshock.co.za /basotho.htm (314 words)

	IRIN Africa \| Southern Africa \| Lesotho \| LESOTHO: Job-hungry Basotho risk exploitation in South Africa \| Other \| News ...
		The Basotho did not have work permits and had been told to disguise themselves as South Africans from the rural district of Qwaqwa near Lesotho, Matsoai explained.
		About half the Basotho live below the poverty line, and according to official statistics 31 percent of people of working age are unemployed.
		That is nothing compared to the 23,000 Basotho men retrenched from South African mines between 2002 and 2003.
	www.irinnews.org /report.asp?ReportID=52116&SelectRegion=Southern_Africa&SelectCountry=LESOTHO (721 words)

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