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Media Sector Reforms
December 13, 2019
Lesotho has embarked on a comprehensive and watershed reforms exercise, which is participatory and engaging. The multi-sectoral and multi-stakeholder reforms seek to create a Lesotho that Basotho want. The reforms are intended to create a just, peaceful and stable country, this after the Kingdom traversed a nasty political trajectory since independence. Lesotho has for the last 50 years of independence been characterised by incessant intra-party and interparty conflicts. After installation of the first coalition government post the 2012 national assembly elections, commotion erupted within partners in the coalition government. This conflict spilled into the domain of society and rendered Lesotho to instability. This necessitated the intervention of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), which spelled out proposals for a comprehensive reforms programme.