s World Cup bid. But does Wills' apparent failure to demonstrate his soccer skills bode well? The princely life, you might think, is none too shoddy. Our second and third heirs to the throne were on their first public duty together last week, ostensibly to push for England's 2018 World Cup bid, but also, obviously, to enjoy cocktails and horse riding and safaris and Africa and football, what with the...
s final frontier "This is the last frontier of tourism in southern Africa," said our guide as I gasped and wheezed my way up Thaba Bosiu, meaning "mountain of the night" in the Sesotho language – so named because when darkness fell it appeared to grow in defiance of would-be conquerors. It is described as the most important historical site in Lesotho but, rather refreshingly, you wouldn't know it apart...
' said charity director Ntate Manyanye. "Lesotho is fighting for survival. We have a population of about 1.9 million but there may be as many as 400,000 Aids orphans among us. Life expectancy has fallen to 34. We are desperate." Ten days ago, several hundred people marched through the capital Maseru and delivered a petition to parliament and the South African High Commission requesting that their country...