/ 24 April 1999

LESOTHO KING TO PAY BRIDE PRICE

LESOTHO’S King Letsie III has agreed to pay lobola (bride price) of 40 head of cattle for the woman he will marry later this year, University of Lesotho science student Karabo Motsoening. The cattle will be driven from the ancestral palace at Matsieng, south of Maseru, on Saturday morning to the farm of the parents of the king’s future bride at Ficksburg in the Free State. They will be accompanied by a senior uncle of the king, Chief Mathealira Seeiso, and his younger brother Chief David Masupha Seeiso.