Maaparankoe Mahao Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/maaparankoe-mahao/ The low down on African affairs Tue, 05 Sep 2017 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Maaparankoe Mahao Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/maaparankoe-mahao/ 32 32 President Jacob Zuma condemns Lesotho army chief’s killing https://jjcornish.com/2017/09/president-jacob-zuma-condemns-lesotho-army-chiefs-killing/ Tue, 05 Sep 2017 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2017/09/president-jacob-zuma-condemns-lesotho-army-chiefs-killing/ President Jacob Zuma’s condemned the killing of Lesotho’a army chief by a military officer and called for calm and restraint in the mountain kingdom. A ministerial mission from the region will arrive there tomorrow to gauge the best response to this development. From China, where he’s attending the BRICS summit, President Jacob Zuma sends his […]

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]]> President Jacob Zuma’s condemned the killing of Lesotho’a army chief by a military officer and called for calm and restraint in the mountain kingdom.

A ministerial mission from the region will arrive there tomorrow to gauge the best response to this development.

From China, where he’s attending the BRICS summit, President Jacob Zuma sends his condolences to the family and friends of Lieutenant General Khoantle Motsomotso.

He was gunned down by an army officer who’d recently been fired.

Zuma notes that two years ago the then army chief  Lieutenant General Maaparankoe Mahao was killed.

Lesotho premier Thomas Thabane, who was returned to power in June’s elections after being ousted in a coup three years ago promised that his country would no longer be the bad boy of  SADC.

He may have spoken too soon.

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