SADC. coup. elections Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/sadc-coup-elections/ The low down on African affairs Mon, 09 Feb 2015 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 SADC. coup. elections Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/sadc-coup-elections/ 32 32 SA president sees Lesotho political players https://jjcornish.com/2015/02/sa-president-sees-lesotho-political-players/ Mon, 09 Feb 2015 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2015/02/sa-president-sees-lesotho-political-players/ After talks with Lesotho’s major political players, President Jacob Zuma’s office says early elections will go ahead in the mountain kingdom as planned at the end of this month. The crisis talks in Pretoria were necessitated by recent renewed tensions in the country that experienced an abortive coup at the end of August. After talks […]

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will go ahead in the mountain kingdom as planned at the end of this month.

The crisis talks in Pretoria were necessitated by recent renewed tensions in the country that experienced an abortive coup at the end of August.

After talks with Prime Minister Thomas Thabane and the Lesotho leadership, President Jacob Zuma’s office expresses its confidence that the climate for the holding of elections on the 28th of February remains on course.

Zuma hosted the talks in his capacity as chairman of the SADC peace and security organ.

The talks followed a shootout between the army and the prime minister’s bodyguards at a checkpoint in the capital Maseru killed a bystander and injured two of the premier’s bodyguards on February 1.

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