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weekly newspaper. 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. ....
10th March 2021 We are still gathering more of the relevant information but the reaction former president Ian Khama to an official visit that President Mokgweetsi Masisi made nine days ago to Namibia is something you ought to know as early as now.âWe did discuss it then and discarded due to cost and chose to pursue a far less costly project,â Khama says.âWeâ is one particular summitry that Khama was one half of during his presidency â the other half was Namibian president, Hage Geingob; âitâ is a desalination plant deal that Masisi went to Windhoek about; and the far less costly project is a water transfer project from Lesotho. ....