Lesotho Political Unrests Dashes Bonwatlou Students� Dreams

Monday, September 18, 2017

SERULE: The political unrest in Lesotho has resulted in the cancellation of a trip in which two students from Bonwatlou Secondary School in Serule were supposed to go and represent the country in the Mathematics and Science fair.

The trip was cancelled immediately after the Lesotho army commander Khoantle Mots’omots’o was shot dead and students were already in Gaborone where they were supposed to catch a flight the next morning.

The shooting of Mots’omots’o early this month followed the death of the wife of Lesotho Prime Minister, Tom Thabane who was shot dead a day before Thabane’s inauguration in June.

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Lesotho Political Unrests Dashes Bonwatlou Students� Dreams

SERULE: The political unrest in Lesotho has resulted in the cancellation of a trip in which two students from Bonwatlou Secondary School in Serule were supposed to go and represent the country in the Mathematics and Science fair.

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