It is shocking, but perhaps not surprising, to read of the impact of the public-private partnership between the Lesotho government and Netcare on healthcare across Lesotho ( Finance deal threatens Lesotho's hospitals, says Oxfam , 7 April). However, public-private partnership can work in an African healthcare setting, and this has been demonstrated over the last six years by the success of the Health...
Oxfam warns that Queen Mamohato hospital, built on advice of arm of World Bank, is drawing off money needed for rural clinics A flagship hospital built in Lesotho using public/private financing with advice from an arm of the World Bank threatens to bankrupt the impoverished African country's health budget. Continue reading... ...
A Lesotho hospital which was built using public and private financing is criticised by Oxfam as it deprives poor, rural areas of funding. 51% of the African country's health budget goes to the consortium running the Queen Mamohato memorial hospital, which was designed to improve healthcare standards. Other countries in Africa are being warned not to repeat Lesotho's mistake Continue reading... ...
The company operates the Letseng mine in Lesotho, which produces diamonds with the world's highest prices per carat The deepening world financial crisis has triggered a sharp drop in rough diamond prices and could push Gem Diamonds, the biggest London-listed diamond mining company, into a loss this year. Shares in the company, which specialises in large, high-quality diamonds, dived 36% to 220p after...
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Guardian Weekly reader David Blaker reports from Lesotho and finds a relaxed politeness in the land-locked country where female literacy is higher than male a rare situation in the developing world Lesotho is mountainous, barren, and the only country entirely surrounded by another. By South Africa. Farms occupy every scrap of land, with each small flock of sheep and goats guarded by a herd-boy whose...
Rebecca Stewart describes how a motorcycle team is speeding up medical care in rural Africa, putting 10.8 million people within reach of vital healthcare As the sun rises over a village in Zambia, Judith ties a toddler on her back and a baby on her front and sets off on a 14km walk. Five hours later she makes her way down a dusty track to the health post, a cement building in the middle of the bush....
t call them "Americans" if they were from Brazil and the United States, even though the distance between the two is the same – and the economic conditions as different. You don't have a film called Out of Asia and you rarely go to Oceania on holidays (instead you talk of vacations in Australia, New Zealand or another island). Yet for a continent of one billion people three times the size of the US,...
s body parts are used for supposed medicinal purposes, and examines the "moral crisis" resulting from the clash of tribal and colonial practices. Colin's earlier books, Families Divided (1981) and Black Mountain (1992), have become classic reading for students of anthropology, sociology, and history. For many years he was joint editor of the Journal of Southern African Studies. He married Linda in...
Sentebale provides healthcare and education to the vulnerable children of Lesotho, a landlocked mountainous kingdom within the borders of South Africa ...
Prince Harry dances with deaf schoolchildren in Lesotho, southern Africa, on Wednesday as part of his tour of schools supported by his charity, Sentebale ...
s going down there in the form of a list of MCs who I think will be making a considerable amount of noise in 2013. L-Tore is reported to be the leader of a crew called Royalty Clique, which has, if my source is correct, names such as Nirex and Lynor in its midst. While L-Tore has been rapping for a while, building his name through the rank-and-file in street cyphers , it is only in the past two years...
s a small country, not strategically located, so it has trouble getting the world's attention and funding." The World Food Programme is about to give out cash vouchers worth $67 as the problem in this landlocked country surrounded by South Africa is not just a question of poor harvests but a lack of cash. In January, the WFP will start distributing food to reach about 200,000 of the most vulnerable...
Five aspiring Olympic athletes travel from their home country of Lesotho to north Wales in preparation for the London 2012 Games Laurence Topham Esther Addley ...
re unlikely to win any medals but Lesotho's tiny team are happy just to compete – and maybe make their country proud At this time of year a chill wind chases through the snow-crowned mountains of Lesotho. The plains below are a medley of browns and yellows where the setting sun casts long shadows. Wrapped against the winter cold in traditional Basotho blankets, some workers still journey by donkey...
On the final day of his tour, Prince Harry takes part in a charity polo match in São Paulo at the Royal Salute Club in Campinas ...
s 32-year-old father, police officer Lehlohonolo Nkesana, tested positive at a clinic in Lesotho, in southern Africa. "I had fallen ill. I had constant headaches," he said. "At the hospital where they admitted me, they said: 'How about a test?' I decided to do it, and it came back positive. I told my wife and she went for a test and we found, well, that we are both positive. We talked a lot and we...
s electricity needs. Lesotho says the scheme will help end its plight as one of the world's poorest countries, "making it a case study in how investing in renewable energy can transform a nation's fortunes". Lesotho offers the opportunity to build one of the highest windfarms in the world, with more than 80% of its territory lying at least 1,800m above sea level. But the high altitude of its Maluti...
s capital, in the hope of seeing a dentist at Queen Elizabeth II Hospital – the largest in the country – only to be told that it was about to be closed and dental services were no longer provided there. "I am very disappointed," she said from a queue outside a small private clinic in the city centre, explaining that initially she had been referred by her local clinic to a hospital about 20km away....
The prince was participating in a polo match to raise money for Sentebale, his charity supporting orphans and vulnerable children in Lesotho, when he fell. He was unhurt and got back on his horse to play on ...