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Lesotho court to rule on women’s rights
On 16 May, the Lesotho Constitutional Court will issue its decision on whether women in Lesotho can succeed to chieftainship. The ground-breaking case brought by Senate Masupha, the first-born child of a chief, challenged the Chieftainship Act, which only permits first-born sons to succeed to chieftainship.
“Denying all women the possibility of succeeding to chieftainship not only violates the right to equality under the Lesotho constitution but also reaffirms the notion that women are subordinate members of Lesotho society,” said Priti Patel, Deputy Director of the Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC), who intervened as friends of the court (amicus curiae) in the matter. “We will see tomorrow whether the court will affirm the rights of women in Lesotho or further entrench women’s secondary status.”
In its submissions, SALC argued that the law is unconstitutional under the Lesotho Constitution as well as under Lesotho’s international and regional obligations. The submissions also document how laws that discriminate against women significantly harm the government’s ability to effectively respond to Lesotho’s HIV epidemic.
This case is part of a broader trend in the region to change or repeal laws which explicitly promote gender discrimination.
The Constitutional Court in South Africa has struck down laws which deny women the right to inherit or succeed to chieftainship. In Botswana, the High Court recently struck down a customary law which denied women the right to inherit.
Courts in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, and Tanzania have also all struck down laws which deny women the right to inherit due solely to their gender.
From: osisa.org
‘Mme Senate Masupha, you (and all qualified African women) deserve your place in African leadership and I sincerely hope the court rules in your favour.
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…presented, with subtitles, in the African dialect of Sesotho—follows [main character] Mokoenya from the crime-riddled streets of Johannesburg, South Africa, to the homeland, Lesotho, from which he was plucked by his father as a young boy…
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…presented, with subtitles, in the African dialect of Sesotho—follows [main character] Mokoenya from the crime-riddled streets of Johannesburg, South Africa, to the homeland, Lesotho, from which he was plucked by his father as a young boy…
Maseru, Lesotho.
© Willem de Lange
Happy Independence Day to all of our readers from the Kingdom of Lesotho!
Formerly known as Basutoland, Lesotho gained its independence from Britain and became the Kingdom of Lesotho on October 4th, 1966.
Lesotho women protesting violence against women at a National Women’s Day protest at National University of Lesotho.
Roma, Maseru, Lesotho.
September 1993
OLYMPIC FOCUS: Lesotho’s athletes hope Olympics will put kingdom on the map
Pictured: Tsepo Ramonene, 21, a Lesotho athlete who will run only his second marathon at the London Olympics: ‘The Olympics could change my life.’
(Read more about the Lesotho athletes participating in this years’ Olympics)
Mahala’s Ts’eliso Monaheng interviews Sotho artist Kommanda Obbs to discuss the artist collective ‘Ts’epe’ movement he is a part of and the influence of Pan-Africanism on his lifestyle.
Excerpt:
Kommanda Obbs’ strategy to sustain himself – and his crew in the long-run, hopefully– is simple: “I’m business-minded, and do not expect to live off of performances alone. I’ve teamed up with people who share a common vision, and we are now on the verge of establishing a record label. That’s where our money’s at: organising events, promoting artists, and getting endorsements.”
And on those endorsements they’ve just landed a three-month deal with a Lesotho-based mobile phone operator. Obbs tails off the discussion by observing that, “artists need to be business-minded about the entertainment industry at large, not just the ‘performance’ part of it.”
Ts’epe, the concept, seems to be centred around a singular vision, and Kommanda Obbs serves as the poster-child as well as chief architect of that vision in Lesotho. Entire civilizations have crumbled due to their leaders’ insistence on sticking to the ultimate goal, regardless of challenges that may ensue. So I ask him about how he manages to keep the ship from sinking.
“I share a lot, and really believe in the power of sharing. I believe in such things as karma – as far-fetched as that may sound. I also read books to check for which strategies work, and which ones don’t. Theoretically, they are fairly simple concepts, but it gets really tough when putting them into practice with an entire team of people,” he says, before adding: “to be a team player is not easy!”
Lesotho election workers count ballet papers in Tsereoane on May 26.
The votes are in and ballot counting is underway in the Kingdom of Lesotho’s general elections. Many speculate that these elections could produce the southern African nation’s first coalition government.
