Monyela Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/monyela/ The low down on African affairs Fri, 29 Aug 2014 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 Monyela Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/monyela/ 32 32 SA: unconstitutional change of Lesotho government is intolerable https://jjcornish.com/2014/08/sa-unconstitutional-change-lesotho-government-intolerable/ Fri, 29 Aug 2014 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2014/08/sa-unconstitutional-change-lesotho-government-intolerable/ As current chairman of the regional troika on peace and security, South Africa’s calling a meeting of the SADC organ to discuss the crisis In Lesotho. The official view is that what’s happened in the mountain kingdom this morning has all the hallmarks of a coup. Pretoria warns that the region and the continent won’t […]

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]]> As current chairman of the regional troika on peace and security, South Africa’s calling a meeting of the SADC organ to discuss the crisis In Lesotho.

The official view is that what’s happened in the mountain kingdom this morning has all the hallmarks of a coup.

Pretoria warns that the region and the continent won’t tolerate an unconstitutional change of government.

Department of International Relations and Cooperation spokesman Clayson Monyela won’t confirm reports that Lesotho premier Thomas Thabane has fled to South Africa.

Neither will he commit South Africa to taking military action in the kingdom it sorrounds – as it did to restore constitutionality in 1998.

He notes that no-one is claiming to control Lesotho with Thabane seeking shelter for fear of his life.

He says the Lesotho military which seized control of police headquarters and a number of stations must return to barracks immediately

 

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