The ski resort dispute has never before been identified by historians as an important consideration used by apartheid officials when they started launching large-scale cross-border military raids into ...
Analysis - Topping out over 3,000 metres above sea level, the Drakensberg and Maluti mountains bordering South Africa and Lesotho are frequently covered in snow in winter. Back in 1975, German and ...
Topping out over 3 000 metres above sea level, the Drakensberg and Maluti mountains bordering South Africa and Lesotho are ...
The ski resort was to be a showpiece economic development project. But Lesotho, QwaQwa's independent neighbour, laid claim to the land. A seven-year diplomatic dispute followed and the resort was ...
That gives Lesotho snow in the southern hemisphere's winters. And while cold winters aren't rare in southern Africa, snow is and ski resorts are even rarer. At an altitude of 3,000 meters (9,842 ...
Lesotho-based ecologist Peter Chatanga says ... including Afriski, a ski resort under Mahlasela Peak. (Photo: Sean Christie)[ ...