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The history of people living in the area now known as Lesotho ( / ləˈsuːtuː, - ˈsoʊtoʊ / [ 1][ 2]) goes back as many as 400 years. Present Lesotho (then called Basotholand) emerged as a single polity under King Moshoeshoe I in 1822. Under Moshoeshoe I, Basotho joined other clans in their struggle against the Lifaqane associated with ...
Walter “Mazinyo” Matitta Phakoa was born in 1885 in Berea at a village called Ha Motsoene - Lesotho. This place was inhabited by AmaHlubi and AmaNgwane who moved to the area during the Mfecane / Difaqane Wars. Matitta was one of six children; namely, Sekota, Masoenyane, Thareni, Matitta, Nomacela and Mpharane. [ 1]
Desmond Tutu (7 October 1931 – 26 December 2021) was a South African Anglican bishop and theologian, known for his work as an anti-apartheid and human rights activist. He was Bishop of Johannesburg from 1985 to 1986 and then Archbishop of Cape Town from 1986 to 1996, in both cases being the first Black African to hold the position.
Modderpoort. ' Mantsopa Anna Makhetha (1793–1908), often referred to as ' Mantsopa, [1] was a Basotho prophetess, rainmaker, and storyteller. She advised King Moshoeshoe I and predicted the outcomes of several battles, including the Battle of Viervoet in 1851 and the Battle of Berea in 1852. She was exiled to Modderpoort in the late 1860s ...
Engenas Lekganyane. Engenas Barnabas Lekganyane (c. 1885–1948) was the founder of the Zion Christian Church (ZCC). He first formed the ZCC in 1910, and by the time of his death the church had at least 50,000 members. Under the leadership of his descendants the ZCC has gone on to have more than a million members primarily located in southern ...
In 1837, the first portions of the Bible in the Zulu language were published; in the "First Book for Readers," portions of Genesis and two Psalms were published. The first book of the Bible to be translated into the Zulu language was Matthew's Gospel, published in 1848 by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM).
Religion in Lesotho ( Afrobarometer 2020) [ 1] Protestantism (52%) Catholicism (41%) Others / None (7%) St. Michael's Cathedral. Lesotho is a predominantly Christian nation. Christianity is the dominant religion in Lesotho, [ 2] with Protestantism and Catholicism being its main denominations. [ 3][ 4] The 2022 United States Department of State ...
Lesotho ( / lɪˈsuːtuː / ⓘ lih-SOO-too, [ 6][ 7] Sotho pronunciation: [lɪˈsʊːtʰʊ] ), formally the Kingdom of Lesotho, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. As an enclave of South Africa, with which it shares a 1,106 km (687 mi) border, [ 8] it is the largest sovereign enclave in the world, and the only one outside of the ...
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