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The speech repeated much of Sam Matekane’s rhetoric from the election campaign. (Photo by MOLISE MOLISE / AFP)

New prime minister promises to ‘make Lesotho great again’

The speech repeated much of Sam Matekane’s rhetoric from the election campaign.

Newsday Lesotho

The speech repeated much of Sam Matekane’s rhetoric from the election campaign. (AFP)

Who is Lesotho’s new Prime Minister, mogul Sam Matekane?

The millionaire who won Lesotho elections with a helicopter

Newsday Lesotho

Political ambitions: Sam Matekane, a wealthy Mosotho, is the leader of the new Revolution for Prosperity political party in Lesotho

Lesotho’s richest man gets political

Sam Matekane is betting his outsider status will re-energise cynical voters in the Lesotho elections in September

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John Aerni-flessner