ANC honours Dr Leabua Jonathan - a true comrade

leloebe la kuku wrote:

<quoted text>oa nyela wena joale o0mona satane joalo ka noa

Mokola wrote:

<quoted text>Get your facts right before talking. You are a liar. All those you have mentioned have been honoured. Ntsu is not at that level and history is giving its judgement

Manyesa - Bloemfontein wrote:

Joint Press Statement:
The Jonathan family and the South African High Commission to the Kingdom of Lesotho on the Occasion of the Awarding of the Order of the Supreme Companions of OR Tambo (posthumously) to Dr. Leabua Jonathan for Exceptional Contribution to the Struggle against Apartheid through Supporting the Liberation Movement in times of need
The award will be posthumously bestowed on the late Dr Leabua Jonathan at the Union Buildings in Pretoria, today 24th April 2007. The award will be received by Dr Jonathan’s grandson Seoehla Jonathan accompanied by his uncle Mr Moletsane Jonathan
The award will be disclosed to the friends and companions of Dr Jonathan on 30th October 2007 which is the anniversary of his 93rd birthday.
Extended family members, friends, companions and well wishers of Morena Leabua Jonathan are kindly advised to patiently await further announcements by the family and the South African High Commission regarding activities in commemoration of this prestigious award.
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Chief Joseph Leabua Jonathan was born on the 30th October 1914 in Lesotho. His father was a hereditary chief and the great-grandson of King Moshoeshoe, founder of the Basotholand (now Lesotho).
He believed in his capability to contribute to the independence and development of Lesotho. In 1937, he worked in the administration of the Paramount Chief Regent, which armed him with the necessary experience to rise within a year from clerk to the presidency of the Basuto courts and assessor to the judicial commissioner.
Dr. Jonathan served in the National Council before acquiring a chief’s place there. Working as advisor to the Paramount Regent, he earned a reputation as a popular progressive leader duly respectful of tradition. He also served on the Panel of 18, the council’s constitutional reform committee.
In 1959, Dr. Jonathan founded and later led the Basutoland National Party (BNP, renamed Basotho National Party at independence). He then entered the Legislative Council as a nominated member. In the same year the BNP began to agitate for independence from Great Britain. It was also during this time that the Basotho became wary of attempts by the Apartheid regime to “incorporate Lesotho as one of its Bantustans” into South Africa.
Despite Lesotho’s economic dependence on South Africa, Dr. Jonathan repeatedly criticised the South African government’s policy of Apartheid and declared his support for the banned African National Congress (ANC).
Towards the middle of the 1970s the relationship between the Government of Lesotho and the South African regime took a turn for the worse, and large numbers of ANC members were able to take refuge in Lesotho, which led to an economic blockade.
He risked his life and that of his Companion OR Tambo to bury the ANC victims of the SANDF massacre of December 1982 in Maseru Lesotho
He consulted and obtained the concurrence of the ANC in exile before he entered negotiations with apartheid South Africa on the Lesotho Highland Water Project
He resisted the pressure to hand over Chris Hani to the Apartheid government in exchange for the LLA
He made special provisions for the education of refugees in Lesotho
He integrated refugees into Basotho communities and regarded them as one people
He kept the issue of conquered territory on the roll of the International Court of Justice in the Hague
Chief Jonathan was a good and true comrade of liberation movements in the region, including the ANC, PAC and FRELIMO despite the risks to his own government and life.
Dr. Joseph Leabua Jonathan showed extraordinary passion for the liberation of the African continent through braving the overt and covert attacks from the mightier Apartheid regime. His love for his people withstood the risks involved in this political vision, including threats on his life.
He died of natural causes on 5 April 1987.

Mokotuoa wrote:

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May his soul rest in piece.

Sentsu Afrika wrote:

Ntate Mokhehle will always be remembered for the great contributions he made towards the liberation of the African people (including South
Africa). Ntate Mokhehle was a member of the African National Congress . He was active in many
deliberations towards the struggle to liberate
South Africa. Whether he is honored or not, in South Africa, one cannot take away his contributions
toward the liberation of our continent.

Mokoepa wrote:

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monna ua tseba Leabua le ha a ne a sotla MaCongress (My relatives were also totured by his regime, and one actually died), motho u ka ba ua re na was it worth for our parents to be involved in that struggle because we are getting nothing from it except a lot of heart ache. Bonyane Leabua Ma Nationale ona ka bo ona a ne a utloana. Macongress a lula a qabana nako ena kaofela. Re khathetse ke ntoena ea ho arohana nako ena kaofela re sa tsebe hore ho tsekoang, e be re huleloa kahare ntoeng tsena tsa bona. Ha re keng re hlalose li polotiki tsa rona ka hore na ke mang ea tlang ho re isa pele eseng hore na ke le ABC kapa Nationale, LCD. Mokhehle u ne a kentse batsoali ba rona ka hlooho e le molingoana oa bona, but now we know better. Mokhehle e ne e le letjoetjoere feela la motho and fortunately some of our parents saw that for themselves in his last years. Ha re ke re tloheleng meleko eno ea maqhekoana e shoeleng, re ke re boneng na rona re siela bana ba rona legacy e joang.

Mokoepa wrote:

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monna ua tseba Leabua le ha a ne a sotla MaCongress (My relatives were also totured by his regime, and one actually died), motho u ka ba ua re na was it worth for our parents to be involved in that struggle because we are getting nothing from it except a lot of heart ache. Bonyane Leabua Ma Nationale ona ka bo ona a ne a utloana. Macongress a lula a qabana nako ena kaofela. Re khathetse ke ntoena ea ho arohana nako ena kaofela re sa tsebe hore ho tsekoang, e be re huleloa kahare ntoeng tsena tsa bona. Ha re keng re hlalose li polotiki tsa rona ka hore na ke mang ea tlang ho re isa pele eseng hore na ke le ABC kapa Nationale, LCD. Mokhehle u ne a kentse batsoali ba rona ka hlooho e le molingoana oa bona, but now we know better. Mokhehle e ne e le letjoetjoere feela la motho and fortunately some of our parents saw that for themselves in his last years. Ha re ke re tloheleng meleko eno ea maqhekoana e shoeleng, re ke re boneng na rona re siela bana ba rona legacy e joang.

Italian 4 work wrote:

Dear friend.. i'm an italian boy, i have a question for you.. i study the monarchy in the world, in lesotho there is a monarchy, the king , the queen, and the princess, but there are a nobilty?? for exemple a baron or a barones ecc..?? please reponse me..

Max wrote:

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Thanx Kali for the info. It only serves good purpose for us to forget & forgive because it is not good to live in the past but the atrocities can never be forgotten especially because unfortunately we still have people among us who, if they could, would glory in those days.
Another one of his worst influences is liphallelo!!! I attribute botsoa bo teng among our people to him because he used these things to rally people around him. Hitler (it is alleged) burned down the parliamentary buildings for the same purpose; Americans (it is alleged) allowed the Pearl Harbour & 911 attacks on themselves so they could instil fear & rally support for the administration. Leabua did the same but from another angle because there has always been 'the poor' among our people.
It is so unfortunate that to this day, there are still allegations of the present government using the same old rotten tactics to play their game. I wish people could grow up and understand. Those things happened and we should have learned to avoid anything that fails to unite us as a people.

Oa Bochabela wrote:

A hero indeed! A fighter who valiantly opposed racial discrimination in South Africa while exercising his own kind of discrimination against his own people. The man who succeeded in dividing the people Moshoesheo the Great united with blood, sweat and tears. Ra tlohela ho ba Basotho ra ba Manashenale le Ma-Congress, le lits'ebeletso tsa sechaba ra li abeloa ka ho ea ka hore na bo-ntat'a rona ba ts'ehetsa party efe. Ra qala ho tseba hore ha u se Molapo kapa Mokoteli hau motho ka hare ho naha ena ea Lesotho. Ra qala ho bona eka naha ena e ahiloe ke ba ha Mokoteli, mali a bo-ntat'a rona moholo a ts'olohetse lefeela ka Lifaqane, Seqiti, Ntoa ea Lithunya le tse ling. A hero indeed. It is no wonder even after his death he has to wait for outsiders to recognise his leadership. Ha e ne e fela e le moeta-pele oa sebele e ka be e le khale Basotho ba ne ba mo tlotle! Empa ka bo-mali-mabe many of us do not have any fond memories of the man, neither do our fathers, uncles and grand-fathers who were tortured, exile and massacred by him ka QOMATSI, a new word in our vocabulary that he had to coin.
KHAU EA MO TS'OANELA!!!

Red Dragon wrote:

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Comrade, you are right. Leabua Jonathan Molapo was a disaster for Lesotho. From 1965-1970 Lesotho had a flourishing democratic culture with the BNP in parliament and BCP running the district councils. The 1970 coup resulted in 23 years of civil war and economic disruption, which made it impossible for the kingdom to play any role in events in RSA and therefore be a position (as Mokhehle and Leballo had planned in the 1960's) for the country to regain its lost lands or unite on favourable terms with a free RSA.
The alliance between ANC/SACP with Leabua was a disgusting act but gives an accurate picture of just what kind of people ANC/SACP have been since 1955. Look at the mess RSA is now in with its upper class greedy snouts-in-the-trough government and ethnic minority economic control and land ownership! 178 LLA had been trained as PAC guerrillas in Libya and then were launched into Lesotho via RSA by miners' contributions and a $10,000 donation by an Irish Tanzanian sympathizer. This shoe-string PAC-linked invasion, the first of an African army into RSA, severely embarrassed and greatly angered ANC/SACP, which quickly allied itself with Leabua to stop being upstaged by BCP/PAC. It is true that Ntsu lost his mind in 1981 and the Second LLA was the creature of ex-Rhodesian/ex-CIA and Boer intelligence services who had sponsored RENAMO in Mozambique but the initial allaince of ANC/SACP with Leabua was undertaken when Ntsu and PAC were firm allies against Pretoria.

Max wrote:

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liphallelo!!! I attribute botsoa bo teng among our people to him because he used these things to rally people around him.