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<title>Getting community consultation right</title>
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<dc:date>2010-04-23</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Gaborone:&nbsp; The Lesotho Highlands Water Project will move into its second phase in 2010. The first phase has been praised as a shining example of transboundary water sharing in Africa, but community dissatisfaction may mean a rough ride for its extension.The Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP) is the largest on the continent, transferring water from the Malimatso, Mtsoku and Senqunyane rivers to South Africa&rsquo;s industrial heartland in Gauteng province...]]></description>
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<title>Lesotho's Metolong dam construction to start next year </title>
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<dc:date>2010-04-21</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[The Metolong Authority plans to start construction of Lesotho's new Metolong dam and raw water pumping station in early 2011, a spokesperson said on Tuesday.
The authority is currently busy with a prequalification process of contractors for the construction contracts of the new dam and pumping station and would invite bids in July...]]></description>
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<title>Decision possible this year on Lesotho Highlands water scheme</title>
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<dc:date>2010-04-19</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Johannesburg:&nbsp; Lesotho Highlands Water Project managing utility, the Lesotho Highlands Development Authority (LHDA), is preparing for phase two of the project, which is critical to Lesotho's economy and South Africa's water supply, and has completed a prefeasibility study.&nbsp; LHDA acting CEO Peter Makuta&nbsp;says that the South African and Lesotho governments must still sign off the second phase, but this should take place by the second half of this year...]]></description>
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<title>State 'fails to lift a finger' as black farming ventures fold  </title>
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<dc:date>2010-04-01</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Johannesburg: Unless significant and far reaching steps are taken to address the current state of agriculture in South Africa, the country will face a lack of food security. This is the warning of Stephen Mohale, the owner of Mohale Farming in Giyani, Limpopo.Mohale said the government seemed to be preoccupied with tenderpreneurship while ignoring the plight of farmers...]]></description>
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<title>Joshi underlines rural development cooperation between India, Lesotho</title>
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<dc:date>2010-03-12</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, Mar 10 : Union Rural Development and Panchayati Raj Minister C.P. Joshi on Wednesday underlined the need to promote cooperation between India and Lesotho in areas of rural development and local self governance.Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Relations of the Kingdom of Lesotho, Mohlabi Kenneth Tsekoa called on Joshi at his Krishi Bhawan office here...]]></description>
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<title>SADC ministers approve report on free trade zone </title>
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<dc:date>2010-03-03</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Kinshasa:&nbsp; The Council of Ministers of the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC), over the weekend in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, approved the report on the regional integration for the consolidation of the Free Trade Zone.&nbsp; Angola, DR Congo and Seychelles have not joined the convention...]]></description>
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<title>AfDB and Lesotho sign two PRS agreements</title>
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<dc:date>2010-02-23</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[
The Bank Group and Lesotho, on 18 February 2010, in Tunis signed a protocol agreement on the Lesotho Poverty Reduction Support programme. The programme aims at promoting transparency and accountability in management and the prudent use of public resources. It focuses on budget processes, public procurement, auditing and accounting...]]></description>
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<title>Transfer cuts a big blow for SA's neighbouring states   </title>
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<dc:date>2010-02-22</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Johannesburg:&nbsp; Members&nbsp;of the Southern African Customs Union (Sacu) were dealt a heavy , if expected, blow by the government&rsquo;s announcement of smaller transfers to the union&rsquo;s members. The members are SA, Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia and Swaziland.
SA administers the customs and excise revenues collected in the region and dispenses them based on a formula in which a disproportionate share goes to Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia and Swaziland, known as the BLNS countries...]]></description>
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<title>SACU:  SA 'giving away' 1% of its GDP</title>
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<dc:date>2010-02-22</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Johannesburg:&nbsp; South Africa was giving away more than 1 percent of its gross domestic product (GDP) - about R28 billion in the 2009/10 budget - to its poor neighbours, a Johannesburg-based economist revealed last week.&nbsp;
Mike Schussler, an economist at Economists.co.za, said this money was more than developed countries, such as Norway and Sweden, were giving to their destitute neighbours...]]></description>
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<title>South Africa weekly white maize exports, futures dip</title>
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<dc:date>2010-02-17</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Johannesburg:&nbsp; South Africa, the continent's biggest maize producer, exported 12,972 tonnes of white maize into southern Africa last week, data showed on Tuesday, while the country's main maize futures ended lower.&nbsp; The white maize exports were less than the 14,055 tonnes sold in the week before, the South African Grain Information Service (SAGIS) said...]]></description>
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<title>Lesotho to focus on alternative revenue creation </title>
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<dc:date>2010-02-15</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Maseru:&nbsp; Lesotho will be pinning its hopes on the promising market prices for the next year while looking at alternative revenue creation to support the country&rsquo;s spending.&nbsp; Minister of Finance and Development Planning, Tim Thahane, told Parliament Friday that government will have to continue to guard on its non-capital spending and increase its investments on human development...]]></description>
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<title>Botswana receives P5.1b SACU share</title>
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<dc:date>2010-01-25</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Gaborone:&nbsp; Botswana has received over P5.1 billion (R5.6 billion) as its annual Southern African Customs Union (SACU) revenue share. Minister of Finance and Development Planning, Mr Kenneth Matambo, said the money will be used to finance the 2010 national budget. He said the amount is smaller than in previous years because of the global economic downturn...]]></description>
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<title>Women farmers play vital role in food security</title>
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<dc:date>2009-11-16</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Cape Town:&nbsp; In South Africa's not-too-distant past, the image of a commercial farmer usually brought to mind middle-aged white men in short pants or, in a few cases, black farmers struggling against the odds to compete in far-away markets.&nbsp; But the stereotype is now being shattered by a number of high-achieving women...]]></description>
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<title>A mountain of challenges </title>
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<dc:date>2009-11-09</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Johannesburg:&nbsp; The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has been feeding people in Lesotho since 1965, yet the tiny mountain kingdom is still not much closer to achieving food self-sufficiency. Time to overhaul the approach, aid agencies say. WFP generally only ships and provides food in crisis situations like civil conflicts and natural disasters...]]></description>
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<title>Lesotho:  Compensation victory for displaced villagers</title>
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<dc:date>2009-09-30</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Maseru:&nbsp; Taelo Motseki had every reason to wear a broad smile despite the afternoon chill. His family along with 21 others displaced by Phase 1B of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project at Ha Mohale had won a decade-long struggle seeking compensation.On Sep 8, the Ombudsman, Sekara Mafisa, reversed and earlier decision and ruled in their favour, ending what had become a source of both frustration and anger for the 22 households now resettled at Ha Matala, in Lesotho's capital, Maseru...]]></description>
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