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	History of Lesotho (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Basutoland (now Lesotho--pronounced le-SOO-too) was sparsely populated by San bushmen (Qhuaique) until the end of the 16th century.
		Under the leadership of Prime Minister Chief Leabua Jonathan[?], the ruling Basotho National Party (BNP) refused to cede power to the rival Basotholand Congress Party[?] (BCP), although the BCP was widely believed to have won the elections.
		The landslide electoral victory caused opposition parties to claim that there were substantial irregularities in the handling of the ballots and that the results were fraudulent.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/le/Lesotho___History.html (1202 words)

	Lesotho - Search View - MSN Encarta
		BCP and other opposition leaders were arrested, opposition parties were banned, and the constitution and parliament were suspended.
		A second attempt by senior members of the BCP to oust Ntsu Mokhehle from leadership of the party prompted a constitutional crisis in June 1997, and the creation by Mokhehle of a new political party, the Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD).
		The results were contested by the BCP and the runners-up in the election, the Basotho National Party (BNP), though they were declared free and fair by both the Lesotho Independent Electoral Commission and by international observers.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /text_761567556__1/Lesotho.html (3274 words)

	Lesotho - History and Politics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The BCP focused heavily on explanations of the whole voting process, upon the historical right of the BCP to rule, and the need to repudiate the BNP, whose corruption and incompetence were held to have ruined the country.
		BCP supporters reacted by demonstrating in the streets of the capital demanding the abolition of the monarchy and the declaration of a republic.
		The ruling party in Lesotho, however, by virtue of its numerical domination in the assembly was able to pass a parliamentary motion congratulating the government on its action in inviting SADC intervention to restore law and order.
	www.iss.co.za /AF/profiles/Lesotho/Politics.html (11081 words)

	Lesotho - MSN Encarta
		The foundation of the BCP, originally called the Basutoland Congress Party, in 1952 marked the beginning of modern party politics in Lesotho.
		In the pre-independence elections of 1965 the BNP, then called the Basutoland National Party, founded in 1958, won a majority and its leader, Chief Joseph Leabua Jonathan, became prime minister.
		When it failed, the leaders of the BCP went into exile, and some formed an armed wing, the Lesotho Liberation Army, which engaged in frequent clashes with the paramilitary police during the following years.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761567556_5/Lesotho.html (774 words)

	Summary of Events in Lesotho - 2nd quarter 1997
		A meeting of the Basutoland Congress Party was called by the Prime Minister on Saturday 7 June, and since this meeting had not been arranged in conjunction with the National Executive of the Party, it was attended only by supporters of his own faction, commonly known as the Majelathoko.
		They had been elected on the BCP party ticket, and could be asked whether they still supported it, and if not, their constituency parties could be asked to disown them and to accept a new BCP candidate for the elections which were now less than nine months away.
		The new party colours were to be red, fl, green and fl again, and the party flag was to reflect this in striped version, together with a portrait of an eagle, reflecting that the party was led by an Ntsu.
	www.trc.org.ls /events/events19.972.htm (8137 words)

	Lesotho. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Following general elections in early 1970, which the opposition Basutoland Congress party (later the Basotho Congress party; BCP) apparently won, Prime Minister Leabua Jonathan declared a state of emergency and suspended the constitution.
		In Jan., 1974, Jonathan accused the BCP of attempting to stage a coup; the party was outlawed and hundreds of its members reportedly killed.
		In 1997, Mokhehle remained prime minister as he broke from the BCP and founded the Lesotho Congress for Democracy party (LCD), reducing the BCP to the opposition.
	www.bartleby.com /65/le/Lesotho.html (1047 words)

	Country Projects: Southern Africa
		Parties are typically major vehicles for the recruitment of political leadership, the structuring of electoral choice and peaceable political competition, and the framing of policy alternatives (Dix, 1992).
		In some countries, dominant parties actively and systematically blocked attempts by opposition parties to attain viability or gain equitable access to voters through publicly-owned media.However, the structural and regulatory conditions under which the opposition parties operated were not the sole factor contributing to their mediocre performance.
		However, the quantitative explosion in the formation of parties does not appear to be matched by a qualitative growth within the parties themselves, and we have discussed the factors contributing to their stunting elsewhere in the paper.
	archive.idea.int /ideas_work/22_s_africa/parties_1_sadc.htm (12286 words)

	CNN.com - World - Election Watch
		Members of the Senate are indirectly elected; 22 are principal chiefs and 11 are appointed by the ruling party.
		Prime Minster MOKHEHLE was elected in May 1993 as the leader of the Basutoland Congress Party (BCP).
		In June 1997 the BCP split and MOKHEHLE formed the splinter Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD).
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/election.watch/africa/lesotho.html (212 words)

	Lesotho Facts
		The BCP began a rebellion in January 1974 and then received training in Libya for its Lesotho Liberation Army (LLA) under the pretence of being Azanian People's Liberation Army (APLA) soldiers of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC).
		One of the conditions put forward by the King for the return of the BCP government was that his father should be re-installed as head of state.
		After protracted negotiations, the BCP government was reinstated and the King abdicated in favor of his father in 1995, but Moshoeshoe II died in a car accident in 1996 and was again succeeded by his son, Letsie III.
	www.the-world-in-focus.com /Africa/Lesotho/lesothofacts.html (1341 words)

	LESOTHO: parliamentary elections National Assembly, 1993
		The BCP campaigned on a platform to restore democracy and seek reconciliation among all parties.
		As a consequence of the BCP victory, the political power of the tribal chiefs was expected to vane.
		On 2 April, BCP leader Ntsu Mokhehle was sworn in as the new Prime Minister, a position he had been seeking for 23 years.
	www.ipu.org /parline-e/reports/arc/2181_93.htm (545 words)

	Background Notes Archive - Africa
		Political parties: By decree of the ruling military council in early 1986, political activities, but not political parties, were banned indefinitely; Basotho National Party (BNP), Basutoland Congress Party (BCP), Marematlou Freedom Party (MFP), United Democratic Party (UDP).
		In 1955, the Basutoland Council asked that it be empowered to legislate on internal affairs, and in 1959, a new constitution gave Basutoland its first elected legislature.
		The Basutoland National Party (BNP) won 31 of 60 seats in the legislature; the Basutoland Congress Party (BCP), 25 seats; and the Maramatlou Freedom Party (MFP), 4 seats.
	dosfan.lib.uic.edu /ERC/bgnotes/af/lesotho9011_old.html (2913 words)

	Lesotho - Search View - ninemsn Encarta
		Jonathan governed by decree until 1973, when an interim National Assembly of nominated members was set up.
		Alleged supporters of the BCP staged an armed uprising in 1974.
		LCD's membership was formed in part by BCP members who had resigned, and in August the BCP was declared the official opposition.
	au.encarta.msn.com /text_761567556__1/Lesotho.html (3274 words)

	Lesotho Demographics and Geography - Columbia Gazetteer of the World Online
		Following general elections in early 1970, which the opposition Congress party apparently won, Prime Minister Leabua Jonathan declared a state of emergency and suspended the constitution; King Moshoeshoe II went into exile but returned at the end of the year.
		In January 1974, Chief Leabua Jonathan accused the Congress party of attempting to stage a coup d’etat, and in the months that followed hundreds of its members reportedly were killed.
		Armed clashes between the Lesotho Liberation Army (the militarized segment of the BCP) and the government were common throughout the 1970s and 1980s.
	www.columbiagazetteer.org /public/Lesotho.html (981 words)

	Lesotho - Home page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In 1952 the Basutoland Congress Party was founded, under the leadership of Ntsu Mokhehle, they launched a campaign for self rule.
		In 1958 the Basutoland National Party was founded under the leadership of Chief Jonathan, the BNP opposed the radicalism of the BCP.
		The BCP remained popular and in 1970 Jonathan staged a coup d'etat, this enabled him to arrest opposition leaders and banned all other political parties, and he put the King under house-arrest.
	www.africanet.com /africanet/country/lesotho/home.htm (483 words)

	EISA { AFRICAN DEMOCRACY PROFILES & COMPARATIVE INFORMATION - LESOTHO }
		Parties are ordered by number of votes obtained in the previous (2002) National Assembly election.
		Parties that were deregistered or that disbanded after the 2002 election are found in the "Unregistered partues" or "Defunct parties" tables below.
		After fareing very poorly in the elections they fell out and disbanded the alliance; as a consequence neither party is registered.
	www.eisa.org.za /WEP/lesparties4.htm (236 words)

	Leeman, Bernard - Profiles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Denounced by the acting BCP Secretary General, Godfrey Kolisang as a South African Army officer, Leeman nevertheless remained in Tanzania and was recruited into the ANC by Ken Mntungwa, the party's Dar es Salaam representative.
		In 1976 he visited the BCP leader Ntsu Mokhehle in exile in Zambia and at his request in 1977 joined the Lesotho military under a false identity in order to ascertain whether peace moves were genuine or not.
		He argued it was best for the party to abandon its "one bullet one settler stance", discredited in his view in the 1960's POQO campaign, and instead remain outside the settlement as a vocal critic until the internal contradictions in South African society would radicalise society and make PAC ideas more acceptable.
	people.africadatabase.org /en/profile/15232.html (1074 words)

	Finding Aid to Pan Africanist Congress Collection
		The inaugural conference of the Pan Africanist Congress was held in April, 1959.
		Consequently, the Pan Africanist Congress began the process of changing from an ex-patriot liberation organization to a political party within South Africa and its members began to be repatriated.
		The process of rebuilding a political party in South Africa involved closing many of the PAC international offices and missions that had been in existence since the PAC was banned.
	www.si.umich.edu /fort-hare/pac_hist.htm (3110 words)

	Lesotho News Online (6) - 6/2/98
		The LCD was formed in July 1997 by octogenarian Prime Minister Ntsu Mokhehle as a break away from the then ruling Basutoland Congress Party (BCP) which won all the 65 seats in parliament in 1993.
		The parties also complain that the local firm which was compiling the voters lists in the computers was operating from the Prime Minister's office where all the computers were connected to one another.
		Some party followers complained that Qhobela was being sidelined by not being made the deputy prime minister as a deputy leader in the party - and the power struggle erupted until Mokhehle bowed out in 1997 to form LCD.
	www.africa.upenn.edu /Newsletters/lsno6.html (2645 words)

	LEC on recent turmoil
		As background information, it is important to report that three major political parties, namely the Basotho National Party (BNP), Basutoland Congress Party (BCP), and Marematlou Freedom Party (MFP), decided to hold a peaceful demonstration against the results of the general elections which were held on May 23, 1998.
		The three major opposition parties mentioned above claimed the elections were rigged and this was the source of their complaint and their demonstration.
		In the meantime, at a meeting held between the government and representatives of the three opposition parties, it was agreed that South African Development Community (SADC) should be invited to come and settle the dispute arising from the May general elections.
	www.globalministries.org /africa/partnerprofile/Lesotho/LEC/lec5.htm (1128 words)

	Lesotho invasion condemned, Issue 33
		But the LCD is an artificial party, formed in 1997 as a breakaway from the Basutoland Congress Party (BCP) to enable leaders who had lost the confidence of the BCP membership to continue to rule the country.
		The opposition parties - BCP, Basutoland National Party (BNP) and the Marema Tlou Freedom Party - said the elections were rigged, and from 4 August their supporters camped in a mass protest outside the palace of the Lesotho monarch.
		It is true that none of the political parties in Lesotho stand for the interests of the working class.
	www.socialismtoday.org /33/lesotho33.html (915 words)

	Lesotho - Political Parties (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		These are the colours of the Basuto National Party of the ex premier Lebua Jonathan.
		This is the flag of the Basutoland Congress Party - one of the opposition parties in Lesotho.
		The opposition parties have rejected the outcome of the May 1998 elections which saw the ruling Lesotho Congress for Democracy (whose flag is horizontal stripes of fl, green and red) winning more than 50 of the 80 parliamentary seats.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/ls}polit.html (311 words)

	Lesotho (08/99)
		The Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) won the majority in parliament in the May 1998 elections, leaving the once-dominant Basotho National Party (BNP) and Basotholand Congress Party (BCP) far behind in total votes.
		The LCD, BNP, and BCP remain the principal rival political organizations in Lesotho.
		Distinctions and differences in political orientation between the major parties have blurred in recent years.
	www.state.gov /outofdate/bgn/l/12551.htm (2684 words)

	Elections in Lesotho
		Prime Minister: Pakalitha Mosisili (LCD) [since 29 May 1998] Following elections, the leader of the majority party in the National Assembly automatically becomes Prime Minister.
		The Other Parties* were the Marema Tlou Party (MTP) and Basutoland National Party (BNP).
		The poll was boycotted by all opposition parties because of procedural irregularities.
	africanelections.tripod.com /ls.html (189 words)

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		The electoral campaign was full of controversy, primarily concerning the question of indemnity from prosecution for those involved in the 1998 violence, among whom were candidates for the 2002 elections.
		Nineteen parties contested the elections, that were monitored by international missions from the Southern African Development Community (SADC), Japan, the European Union and the United States.
		According to the official results, the ruling Lesotho Congress for Democracy won 54 per cent of the vote, while the Basotho National Party polled 21 per cent, and the Lesotho People's Congress 7 per cent.
	www.ipu.org /parline-e/reports/2181_E.htm (535 words)

	SUMMARY OF EVENTS IN LESOTHO - 3rd Quarter 2004
		On the question of why the BCP opposed the extension of the franchise to women, Mphanya admits it was more a matter of political expediency than of principle.
		The party conference of 1992 (pictured on the cover) is criticized for avoiding issues about the BCP in exile which should have been discussed.
		In the 1998 General Election, the BCP, led by Molapo Qhobela, was fighting against the Lesotho Congress for Democracy which had emerged as a new party led by Ntsu Mokhehle, after the BCP had expelled him as leader.
	www.trc.org.ls /events/events20.043.htm (11415 words)

	Lesotho (10/06)
		He refused to cede power to the Basotho Congress Party (BCP) and imprisoned its leadership.
		The chairman of the military junta, Major General Metsing Lekhanya, was ousted in 1991 and then replaced by Major General Phisoane Ramaema, who handed over power to a democratically elected government of the BCP in 1993.
		Opposition protests in the country intensified, culminating in a violent demonstration outside the royal palace in August 1998.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/2831.htm (2842 words)

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		The BCP began a rebellion and then received training in Libya for its Lesotho Liberation Army (LLA) under the pretence of being Azanian People's Liberation Army (APLA) soldiers of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC).
		Deprived of arms and supplies by the Sibeko faction of the PAC in 1978, the 178-strong LLA was rescued from their Tanzanian base by the financial assistance of a Maoist PAC officer but launched the guerilla war with a handful of old weapons.
		In the early 1980s, several Basotho who sympathized with the exiled BCP were threatened with death and attacked by the government of Leabua Jonathan.
	celebritiesguide.com /?title=Lesotho (3061 words)

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