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Communities living within sight of Lesotho’s two biggest dams endure a daily struggle to get safe water because the “white gold” they can see but cannot reach is destined for neighbouring South Africa.
The landlocked country has earned a total of 11.2-billion maloti ($746-million) for selling 16,401.3 million cubic metres of clean water to its bigger, much wealthier neighbour from 1996 to 2020, according to the Lesotho Highlands Development Authority (LHDA), the project’s implementing agency.
In 2020 alone, Lesotho earned 1.03-billion maloti (about $69-million) when it sold about 780 million cubic metres of water to South Africa, according to the LHDA.
A little revenge
Muckraker has had it to the back teeth with the chaos at Lesotho’s borders with South Africa.
It’s the same old sorry problems successive Lesotho governments have dismally failed to solve.
You know that in November our minister will have some meeting with their South African ‘counterpart’.
Our minister will then call a press conference to announce how fruitful the meeting was.
He will promise that all will be smooth sailing at the border when Basotho come back home.
But, as sure as the fact that the LDC is a spent force, the wheels will come off and chaos will reign supreme at the border during the peak holiday travel.