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Concerns: Local residents gather to voice their opposition to the construction of the Polihali Dam in Lesotho, as part of the second phase of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy
ACCOUNTABILITY COUNSEL

‘Our Land, Our Lives’: Lesotho villagers challenge Gauteng water scheme

Lesotho villagers allege unsafe conditions and no accountability in the scheme to supply Gauteng

  • Sheree Bega
8 min read
The second phase of the Lesotho Highlands must not repeat the mistakes of the first phase in which women were displaced and disempowered. Photo: File
AFDB

Lesotho Highlands Water Project must work with women, not against them

Public banks – Development Bank of Southern Africa, African Development Bank and the New Development Bank – and the Lesotho Highlands Development Authority render women invisible…

  • Mosa Letsie & Marianne Buenaventura Goldman
5 min read
Watershed: The Lesotho Highlands Development Authority building in Maseru. Photo: Sechaba Mokhethi
AUDITOR GENERAL OF SOUTH AFRICA

How South Africa’s Lesotho water project costs ballooned by R45bn

Political and administrative delays, treaty complications and changes in government leadership contributed to the jump

  • Sechaba Mokhethi
5 min read
Katse Dam in Lesotho is the largest of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project reservoirs, with a storage capacity of nearly 2-billion cubic metres.. (Walter Dhladlhla/Getty Images)
BASOTHO

Basotho lose out over new dam that will supply SA with more water

Few benefits will flow to the people on whose land the Polihali Dam is being built

  • Majara Molupe
3 min read