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Original Post Date: 2007-03-21 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
[Trouble is brewing in Lesotho. Jan]
By Cletus Morafo
Maseru – An opposition work boycott paralysed much of Lesotho for the second day on Tuesday as activists sought regional help to deal with post-election tensions in the small African kingdom.
Armed soldiers patrolled the streets of the capital Maseru as all businesses were closed in the city centre except for government offices.
Thomas Thabane, leader of the opposition All Basotho Convention (ABC), said a collapse of talks with the ruling party over disputed parliamentary seats had prompted an appeal to the Southern African Development Community (SADC).
The group is expected in Lesotho, a country beset by widespread poverty where almost a third of the adult population are infected with HIV and Aids, on Thursday for ministerial meetings.
“We enter the second day of our stay away without them having replied to our letter,” Thabane told Reuters.
He said opposition supporters were determined not to go to work until Thursday and were planning other peaceful demonstrations.
SADC officials were not immediately available for comment.
Opposition MPs are protesting the exclusion from parliament of a politician, Anthony Manyeli, who opposed his party’s alliance with the ruling Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) in the Feb. 17 poll. The alliance gave the LCD an 21 extra seats to boost its total to 82 seats in the 120-member assembly.
Manyeli, leader of the National Independent Party (NIP), challenged the legality in court of the alliance ahead of the vote and won the case. But that ruling was later overturned on appeal, dashing the opposition’s hopes of cutting the LCD’s majority to just one seat.
Manyeli was later dropped from the NIP’s official list of candidates, leaving him without a seat after the vote.
The stay away began on Monday with the burning of two cars in the outskirts of the capital. Tyres were also burnt in roads to stop traffic to the city centre.
The police said investigations suggested the burned cars were scrap vehicles intended to give the impression that people driving to work ran the risk of having their cars burnt.
With public transit at a standstill, the government-owned Lesotho Freight Bus Corporation together with government vehicles carried civil servants to work, each vehicles guarded by soldiers and policemen.
A government statement read over state radio said any state employee missing work could lose his or her job.
Lesotho, an impoverished kingdom completely surrounded by South Africa, has a history of political instability following its return to civilian rule in 1993.
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