SA Miners are protesting today. Full story here.
South Africa’s mining sector accounts for some 16% of the country’s GDP.
It would appear that the strike extends to Lesotho as well, Public Eye story here.
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The Berea Plateau has a new HIV/AIDs clinic: here.
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Lesotho will adhere to the “One China” policy as long as China makes them, pays for them to do so, asks them to? Story here. Here is the wikipedia entry on the “one China policy” The US’s policy is: “the United States acknowledges that Chinese on either side of the Taiwan Strait maintain there is but one China and that Taiwan is a part of China. The United States does not challenge that position.”
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“Thinking the Unthinkable”, a good primer on what a “Lesotho as part of South Africa” scenario might entail and what people think about it.
