Merafhe threatened to bomb Lesotho

She recalls how President Ketumile Masire summoned her and the Foreign Minister, Gaositwe Chiepe, and instructed them to facilitate a peace mission in the mountain kingdom.

“Ladies, I have called you here because I would like to send you on a very important mission. As you have heard, things have taken a turn for the worse in Lesotho. The army has surrounded the airport, and no planes are allowed to take off or land in Maseru,” Masire briefed them. He also informed them that he and former president of South Africa the late Nelson Mandela had been talking and had decided to dispatch a team to Maseru to calm the situation.