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’Maseribane pledges to pay farmers
MASERU-SMALL Business Development Minister Thesele ’Maseribane says the government will next week meet aggrieved wool and mohair farmers as it steps up to placate a key voting constituency.
’Maseribane told parliament yesterday that the government first wants to establish how much the wool and mohair farmers are owed.
He said so far two figures – M8.3 million and M32 million – have been put forward by his predecessors as the amount the government owes farmers.
He said the investigation is meant to find the correct figure before the government begins a process to settle the bill.
The government then led by Thomas Thabane passed the controversial Wool and Mohair Regulations in 2018 that banned farmers from selling their products outside the country.
Yesterday’s man
THE ruling All Basotho Convention (ABC)’s decision to make Thomas Thabane the face of the party for next year’s general elections has been met with utter bewilderment from Basotho.
The decision which was confirmed by the party’s powerful yet divided National Executive Committee (NEC) was a subtle admission that it had failed to come up with an acceptable successor to both factions.
The two factions within the ABC remain bitterly divided over who should take over from Thabane. In an attempt to forestall what was likely to be a certain split, the factions have now agreed to coalesce around Thabane.