It is as though the Basotho nation is a distant spectator as the world staggers around us. As we receive a rainy start to winter, Lesotho is undergoing a 14-day extension of the national lockdown from the 22nd April to the 5th of May 2020[i]. To date, the Ministry of Health maintains that the country …
Meanwhile, on a hillside in Maseru … After a long journey she’s had her babies, so proud of her. Circle of life. This is part of a small scale community-based piggery project we are part of in our village.
It is day 18 of the national lockdown in Lesotho that spans from midnight 29th March to the 21st of April 2020. The nation has been urged to stay at home as coronavirus COVID-19 continues to forcibly penetrate countries around the world. Schools, churches, businesses and social watering holes alike have closed their doors in …
The social ill that is Gender Based Violence (GBV) is a prominent issue regionally, with neighbouring South Africa going to the extent of raising the matter to a state of emergency in 2019. This crippling phenomena, that has been ever present in our communities, has created generations of people living with the scars – visible …
A global village. That is what the world has become, and quite rightly so. A phrase alluding to how small the globe is, despite its vastness and magnitude. Across the continents and the seas, the human condition is the same for us all. Birth and death. From breath to breath. The beauty lies in the …
And so the question arises: What was life like before COVID-19? Since the inception of this novel strain of coronavirus in December 2019, it has infiltrated every facet of human life in a manner many of us have never seen. As of the 28th March 2020, the World Health Organisation (WHO) states that over 570,000 …