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Lesotho's independence

There is no description of the political process or instruments that led to Basutoland's independence and consequent transformation into Lesotho. The citation used for the claim on the Independence_(1966–) subheading is a book on urban developments that simply asserts the independence, and gives no clarification on how it occured. Understandable given that it's a book on urban developments, but then why is it the source used for this fact? Moxanity (talk) 09:14, 4 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Trump

In a speech to US Congress on 4 March 2025, Trump referred to Lesotho as 'a country no-one has ever heard of'. Obviously this remark says far more about Trump than it does about Lesotho: does it merit a mention here? Cross Reference (talk) 18:09, 6 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

No, there are probably lots of countries Trump hasn't heard of. It's just trivia. 2601:644:8184:F2F0:F86E:E9AA:303A:C8B (talk) 23:07, 10 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Pronunciation of Lesotho

I was unaware of the existence of Lesotho (there's a lot I'm unaware of). I'm curious if it would be helpful to add the pronunciation of Lesotho to it's page (especially as I think it may be non-intuitive to English-speakers).

If it is appropriate to add the pronunciation, where would one add it? Also, I found the pronunciation Cambridge.org. Is that authoritative enough? Mikehospitalchaplain (talk) 01:16, 3 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The audio is there, you can see it in the respective footnote at Lesotho#Notes. (CC) Tbhotch^™ 01:35, 3 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

HUGE bias is the article

"The second Trump administration (since 20 January 2025) tries tariffs. Trump pretends to “restore American manufacturing” and “bring jobs home.”, pretends? That is loaded language, Either rephrase it, or remove it. This is why no one trusts Wikipedia anymore. FYI, if it was something about Biden or Obama, I'd still think it was loaded language. Fix it. 72.28.239.217 (talk) 13:57, 9 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You know anyone (including you) can edit the article and fix it yourself, right? (CC) Tbhotch^™ 19:01, 9 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Dutch settlers

The encroachment was not by Dutch settlers, but rather to a small extent Trekboere (nomadic farmers) from the northern borders of the Cape Colony who were travelling subsistence farmers, Griquas who derived their identity mainly from the Free Black, slaves, San and Khoi people of the Dutch Cape Colony who were looking for land for themselves, other non-Moshoeshoe aligned and non-Cape Colony people and to a large extent Voortrekkers who left the Cape Colony mainly from what is now the Eastern Cape after the abolition of slavery in the British ruled Cape Colony and were looking for land to establish their own republics. The Voortrekkers mainly came from regions that had been in conflicts with amaXhosa in the border wars after their ancestors had moved north from regions in the Dutch ruled Cape Colony that had experienced short-lived anti-Cape Colony rule republics like the Swellendam Republic. However, many Voortrekkers who largely identified themselves as boere (farmers) and were mainly descended from a mix of Dutch, French, German, Swedish, British etc settlers and Indian slaves or other non-European slaves or Free Blacks still wanted to maintain trade, religious and diplomatic links with the British ruled Cape Colony after they left the British ruled Cape Colony. Those that maintained these links also depended on the approval of the British to establish boer (farmer) republics such as the Transvaal (currently divided into the Limpopo, Mpumalanga, North West and Gauteng provinces) and Orange Free State (currently the Free State province). These republics wanted wanted to and did retain the racial and class structures of the Dutch Cape Colony where the citizens were only those who clearly looked of European descent, were of a state religion Reformed theology church like the NGK etc and spoke Dutch or Afrikaans(a Dutch Cape Colony derivative of Dutch).However, unlike the Dutch Cape Colony or the short-lived Natalia Republic the British directed the Transvaal and Orange Free State republics not to engage in slavery. The most prominent of these Voortrekkers Andries Pretorius also maintained relations with prominent Scottish missionaries in the NGK church such as Andrew Murray. ~2025-32717-85 (talk) 13:10, 11 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]