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	GIRR No. 10
		Using the household as a unit of analysis, the authors conducted field research in the Mafeteng District during the period June 1996 to June 1997.
		Furthermore, Mafeteng is one of the districts with high incidence of poverty and with larger numbers of migrants to the South African mines.
		In the previous decade, Mafeteng's migrant population was 11.4% of the total district population (154,339).
	www.ossrea.net /girr/no10/no10.htm (2447 words)

	Exploring the Country (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The district’s Principal town of Maseru is often first stop for visitors and an ideal base from which to explore the diversity of the districts’ natural attractions and experience its rich cultural and historical heritage.
		TY, as the district town is commonly known, is an abbreviation for Teyateyaneng.
		The principal town of this district bears the same name as the district, and for a while, in the early 1980s was considered by government as a possible location for the capital because of its central location.
	www.mrinfo.co.za /sa/Lesotho/exploring.htm (2636 words)

	BASUTOLAND - LoveToKnow Article on BASUTOLAND (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The majority live in, the district between the Maluti mountains and the Caledon river.
		Mafeteng, in the N.W. near the Cape frontier, is a thriving agricultural centre, as is Butha Buthe in the N.E. Morija, some 16 m.
		For administrative purposes the Territory is divided into the seven districts of Maseru, Leribe, Mohales Hock, Berea, Mafeteng, Quthing and Qachas Nek, each of which is subdivided into wards presided over by Basuto chiefs.
	93.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BA/BASUTOLAND.htm (4651 words)

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		The southern district of Mohale's Hoek was selected as the location for the pilot project, as it was representative, both in size and topography, of conditions in the country as a whole.
		At the district level, the women's liaison adviser worked closely with the district sanitation teams to identify existing women's groups and their modes of functioning, as well as their needs and problems.
		The use of participatory education methods has allowed district health assistants and village health workers to reach the people, and changes in attitudes toward sanitation and hygiene behavior are certainly apparent in those districts with well-established projects.
	www-wds.worldbank.org /servlet/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/1990/01/01/000009265_3960930113839/Rendered/INDEX/multi_page.txt (5930 words)

	Lesotho - OCHA: 01-Sep-03
		According to the Thabatseka District Agricultural Officer, and based on the WFP/FAO assessment of May 2003, the Mashai constituency is the worst affected and worst hit by the winter drought, with food security at house hold level said to be critical.
		The Disrict Secretary, and DMA in the district of Mafeteng, Mohale's Hoek and Quthing wewre briefed on the formation of the Women Relief Commitees for improved targeting and distribution of WFP commodities.
		In mafeteng there is a shortage of vegetable oil and pulses, thus resulting in distribution of only maize grain to orphans as a take home ration.
	www.cidi.org /humanitarian/hsr/03b/ixl180.html (4765 words)

	Emergency Management Postings
		These districts are divided into 12 units (known as Talukas) which are further divided into union councils and dehs (village clusters).
		District Umerkot and Thar are a continuation of the Rajisthan Desert in the adjoining part of India and consist mostly of undulating sand dunes while Mirpurkhas district is mostly plain and irrigated area.
		An estimated 40,000 to 140,000 members of the rural population of Bunia were said to have crossed the borders to Uganda to escape the wave of violence currently being unleashed on Bunia.
	www.disasters.org /emgold/Droughts.htm (5884 words)

	FAO, WFP to establish pilot food security project in Mafeteng (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The World Food Program (WFP) and Food Agricultural Organization (FAO) have established a pilot food security project in Mafeteng district that is expected to start operating in February this year, according to WFP emergency coordinator, Ms.
		Moshi said the project will work with orphaned children in the district, providing them with equipment and agricultural inputs so that they are able to produce crops and vegetables and maintain food security throughout the year.
		The prolonged drought in the country, now running for two consecutive years, has affected both summer and winter crops and it is anticipated that the poverty and hunger situation is going to be worse.
	www.lesotho.gov.ls /articles/2004/FAO_WFP_Food_Security.htm (257 words)

	WFP Emergency Report - 11: 14-Mar-03
		Thus there is a need to pre-position relief food for certain districts during May and June for the requirements between July and September.
		In addition, 8,7 tons of pulses and vegetable oil were distributed under emergency school feeding projects in Mafeteng District.
		WFP and implementing partners are collaborating to address health and nutrition issues linked to the outbreak and both old and newly arriving refugees, as well as humanitarian personnel, were sensitized on precautionary measures.
	iys.cidi.org /humanitarian/wfp/03a/ixl9.html (5562 words)

	AEGiS-AFP News: Lesotho-famine: Starvation threatens people of Lesotho - May 24, 2002
		MAFETENG, Lesotho, May 24 (AFP) - Withered crops, a gaunt pensioner and a bony donkey in southwest Lesotho tell of the starvation threatening 80 percent of the tiny kingdom as voters on Saturday go to the polls after the government failed to act on famine warnings.
		The WFP started feeding some 36,000 people in five out of Lesotho's 10 districts last year, after heavy rains, hail and, in some areas drought, devastated crops.
		Malebohang Machachamise, from Thabana-Morena in Mafeteng, said there are very poor and sick people in her village.
	www.aegis.com /NEWS/AFP/2002/AF020589.html (783 words)

	GIRR No. 10
		As indicated in Chapter One, this study is based on the data collected in 18 villages in the Mafeteng District over a population sample of 250 households.
		This is explicable by the fact that the meagre resources of most rural households did not allow respondents to access education beyond the primary level.
		That the highest percentage of the respondents (35.6%) had no fields is a clear indicator of the perennial problem of landlessness in the Mafeteng District.
	www.ossrea.net /girr/no10/no10-03.htm (2616 words)

	Through the eyes of women - RIACSO special report (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		It is a view shared by all the inhabitants of La Hepolesa village in Lesotho’s southern district of Mafeteng.
		As a single parent headed household with 7 children between the ages of 18 and 10, ‘Malianano’s family is one of the most vulnerable and has been receiving WFP food aid for almost a year.
		Back then WFP was covering eight districts out of 10 but this year the whole country is affected,” adds Zergaber.
	www.plusnews.org /webspecials/womensday/RIACSO-LesothoI.asp (651 words)

	Lesotho Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The constitution also protects basic civil liberties, including freedom of speech, association, and the press; freedom of peaceful assembly; and freedom of religion.
		For administrative purposes, Lesotho is divided into 10 districts, each headed by a district secretary.
		Lesotho's economy is based on exports of water and electricity sold to South Africa, manufacturing, agriculture, livestock, and to some extent the earnings of laborers employed in South Africa.
	www.echostatic.com /Lesotho.html (1766 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Lesotho Appeal No. 01.16/2003 Programme Update No. 2
		In Mafeteng district the food parcel distribution is done the youth group.
		For instance, Mafeteng drama group training which should have taken place in July during the school holidays had to be deferred due to engagement of the trainers in other activities.
		There is also no district transport to facilitate adequate supervision and monitoring of the community-based health care facilitators' daily home visits.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/rwb.nsf/AllDocsByUNID/146fc9d7b53373db49256e16000a2a2e (1653 words)

	Testing times for rural households (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Beneath a rocky mesa at Hamoletsale, further north in the Mafeteng district, two farmers who share a donkey cart, Michael Ramaimale and Tseliso Moletsale, stood beside a dusty field of stunted sorghum plants.
		In the hamlet of Sixondo, in the Quthing District at the southern tip of Lesotho, people walk for an hour from an emergency food distribution spot to their homes carrying 25 kilo sacks of maize on their heads.
		IRIN is a project of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
	www.irinnews.org /pnprint.asp?ReportID=3011 (722 words)

	wikien.info: Main_Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		She was associated with cats and mongooses (both of which kill snakes) and was known to protect from the dangerous effects of snakebites.
		In the early 1990s, one of the sights in Mafeteng was the "Old Mill" which was owned by the Scott family, but taken over by the Os..
		It has an area of 2,119 km2 and a population of approximately 330,000 (2004).
	uovampires.info /browse.php?title=M/MA/MAF (795 words)

	WFP Emergency Report - 13: 28-Mar-03
		UN missions to Gosfandi district and Laghman province in northern and eastern Afghanistan were suspended.
		WFP is planning to conduct a nutritional status assessment in the three Districts of Karamoja in April in collaboration with the Ministry of Health, District authorities and UNICEF.
		An additional 6.4 tons was distributed to ten schools in Mafeteng District.
	iys.cidi.org /humanitarian/wfp/03a/ixl11.html (3639 words)

	C: Case studies - South Africa
		This project, based in the Mafeteng District of Lesotho, involves repairing and refurbishing 180 boreholes and hand pumps across at least 50 villages.
		Most of the pumps in the villages are in extremely bad condition having been neglected and vandalised.
		The tenders submitted by local service providers were unrealistically priced and show little understanding of the nature and fair cost of services to be provided and, when engaged, the renovation was not done to the level required.
	www.anglogold.com /subwebs/InformationForInvestors/reporttosociety04/values_bus_principles/community/c_cs_sa_7_6.htm (567 words)

	allAfrica.com: Machobane Farmers Raise Funds to Promote Their Unique Method of Farming (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Even though the Lesotho government has not officially and formally adopted the Machobane farming system as a method of agriculture that can be used to ensure availability of food throughout the year, the system is gradually gaining popularity in most parts of Lesotho and many small farmers are turning to it.
		This became evident when many small farmers following and using the Machobane farming system converged at Ha Ramokoatsi in the Mafeteng district over the past weekend to raise funds to buy seeds for the next planting season which starts in April and ends in June.
		Groups of small farmers from about 28 villages in the Mafeteng district participated in the fund-raising with each group contributing about M400.00 towards the fund that would be used to buy indigenous seeds for the current planting season.
	www.genet-info.org /-htm/lesotho5.htm (922 words)

	afrol News - Maize-basket of Lesotho hardest hit by drought
		The World Food Programme (WFP) reports of a total crop failure in Lesotho's Mafeteng district, usually the small mountain kingdom's most fertile area.
		Back then WFP was covering eight districts out of 10 but this year the whole country is affected," Mr Zergaber says.
		Back in Mafeteng, 76-year-old Mr Monaheng gazes out in silence over his dry and dusty fields.
	www.afrol.com /articles/11437 (689 words)

	Lumela
		We wanted to report on soil erosion in the district of Mafeteng, just south of Maseru.
		But he was kind enough to make an appointment for us with the proper person in the next district, Mohale's Hoek.
		Boreng had already pointed out that the man was not happy to drive people who did not belong to his department, so I seriously tried not to explode.
	www.desk.nl /~gris/public/RTL2000/web-lesson/Lumela_9.html (949 words)

	White House Correspondents Association: 2003 Merriman Smith Award
		Mafeteng, Lesotho - The burglars broke into her home just five days after she arrived in Lesotho.
		Oldham, an energetic woman with hazel eyes and a directness that can be disarming to her African counterparts, had concentrated on helping to organize the district task force aimed at coordinating AIDS efforts in the region.
		To save money, her boss, the Mafeteng district secretary, wanted to move her to a larger house, with three bedrooms and a marble fireplace.
	www.whca.net /2004poe_2003_10_28_b.htm (1278 words)

	Water sources should be covered, especially during rainy season (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The rains that have just started may bring with them infection if water sources are not covered, the Mafeteng district sanitation coordinator, Mr.
		If water sources are not covered, there is a possibility of people getting infected as is always the case when the rains start after a protracted drought.
		Sanitation in the Mafeteng district is very poor as there were only about 5000 pit-latrines in the whole district, used by a population of 30 000 people in the district.
	www.lesotho.gov.ls /articles/2004/Water_Sources_Covered.htm (128 words)

	Rural Self-Help Development Association (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		FSAP had been operating under the umbrella of the Lesotho Work-camps Association (LWA), since 1982.
		Since its inception, FSAP continued with rural development activities such as agricultural extension work, road construction, afforestation, erosion control, communal gardens and creation of income generating activities in the rural areas of the Mafeteng district, and most of these activities were implemented by means of food-for-work.
		In 1992 when RSDA assumed its responsibility for FSAP, a new participatory approach was introduced and food-for-work was completely withdrawn.
	www.agricta.org /partners/rsda/history.htm (198 words)

	Lesotho Embassy in Washington - Tourism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Because of the ruggedness of terrain in some parts of the Mokhotlong and Qacha’s Nek districts, four-wheel drive vehicles are advised for these parts.
		Although road conditions in Lesotho have, in the past, been characterized as similar to those in many developing countries (i.e.) rather rudimentary), there are marked improvements making for better motoring conditions throughout the country.
		Throughout the rest of the country, each district has accommodation, ranging from medium-sized hotels to smaller tourist lodges.
	www.lesothoemb-usa.gov.ls /tourism.htm (2175 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Algerian rice to help thousands of hungry people in Lesotho
		MASERU - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today was pleased to announce the arrival of Algerian-donated rice for the agency’s emergency operation in Lesotho.
		The gift of 2,000 tons of rice is being recognized during a ceremony at Raliemere Primary School in Mafeteng District today, which will be attended by Mr.
		Mohmoudi Belkacem, Charge D’Affairs for the Algerian Ambassador to Lesotho, the Mafeteng District Representative, officials from Lesotho’s Disaster Management Authority and WFP staff.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/rwb.nsf/AllDocsByUNID/daeca17738f31d1d85256d43006e4d96 (520 words)

	SARPN - Agriculture
		The aim of this report is to present the findings, conclusions and recommendations of the research to policy makers and service providers with the intention of improving understanding of how HIV and AIDS affects household livelihoods strategies in Lesotho.
		In Ha Makhakhe the main sources were the District Aids Task Force, radio, schools and Mafeteng Hospital.
		The main reason appears to be that care from family members is more readily given in Ha Makhakhe, perhaps because the level of acknowledgement is higher, and also because social cohesion appears to be higher.
	www.sarpn.org.za /documents/d0000739 (1171 words)

	BASUTOLAND ROLL OF HONOUR 1851 - 1881 - South African Military History Society - Journal
		It spread and ultimately involved the Basotho, Baphuthi and allied tribes.
		The Roll for 1851 covers a clearing operation in the Orange Free State, then The Orange Sovereignty, and attacks against the Baphuthi, under Chief Morosi, at Genadeberg and Dulcie's Nek, on the present borders between the Herschel District of the Cape and the Quthing District in Basutoland.
		The investment and capture of Mount Morosi in the Quthing District, March to November, 1879, by the forces of the Cape Colony.
	samilitaryhistory.org /vol015gt.html (1273 words)

	CIA - The World Factbook -- Field Listing - Administrative divisions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		none (overseas territory of France); there are no first-order administrative divisions as defined by the US Government, but there are 3 districts named Ile Crozet, Iles Kerguelen, and Iles Saint-Paul et Amsterdam; excludes "Adelie Land" claim in Antarctica that is not recognized by the US Gabon
		14 districts; Aiwo, Anabar, Anetan, Anibare, Baiti, Boe, Buada, Denigomodu, Ewa, Ijuw, Meneng, Nibok, Uaboe, Yaren
		districts: Bath and North East Somerset, East Riding of Yorkshire, North East Lincolnshire, North Lincolnshire, North Somerset, Rutland, South Gloucestershire, Telford and Wrekin, West Berkshire, Wokingham
	phatnav.com /factbook/fields/2051.html (5912 words)

	Newsletter No. 5 - Mamello's Story - EENET
		I was born in 1979 at Scott Hospital.
		I stay in a village called Tanka in Mafeteng district.
		I live with my mother, two sisters and three brothers.
	www.eenet.org.uk /newsletters/news5/p10.shtml (707 words)

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