From the 1860s, Mabille and others had believed the 'Church of
Basutoland' would not mature fully unless it carried out its own mission work, and thus both Barotseland and the mountains of Lesotho received considerable exposure and emphasis.
The Congress Movement referred to by Mosisili was founded and woven in 1952 by Mokhehle into what was originally called the
Basutoland African Congress (BAC), renamed a few years later the
Basutoland Congress Party (BCP) of which the LCD is the biggest splinter organisation.
It was then known as Bechuanaland,
Basutoland, and Swaziland, with the first two renamed after independence, Botswana and Lesotho, respectively.
(1) Moshoeshoe (1786-1870), also spelled Mshweshwe, or Moshesh, whose real name was Lepoqo was regarded as the founder of the Sotho nation, called
Basutoland by the British.
Despite South African pressure, inhabitants of the Bechuanaland Protectorate,
Basutoland (now Lesotho), and Swaziland in 1909 asked for and received British assurances that they would not be included in the proposed Union of South Africa.
From 1937 to 1941 he served as an Education Officer for the British Colonial Service in
Basutoland and Zanzibar.
All of us would be taking part in WSI's summer residency in Lesotho, a constitutional monarchy and landlocked country (formerly
Basutoland) entirely surrounded by South Africa.
The Marashea gang had developed initially around migrants from
Basutoland (now the country of Lesotho).
Six people sat down to a meal at the headquarters of the Paris Evangelical Missionary Society in
Basutoland (Lesotho) in December 1920.
5), painted during her visit to
Basutoland (now Lesotho) in the winter of 1948/49, in which two little African girls, whose names the artist carefully recorded, sit playing together.
For the class "B" Mandates, the Committee proposed that "the Mandatory should divide the territory into tribal areas and appoint administrators with powers as Mandatories of these areas with the object of developing native governments similar to that existing in
Basutoland, machinery to be introduced into the terms of all sub-mandates for the due consideration of grievances and of claims to a share in the government."
