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My name’s Rethabile Masilo. I come from Lesotho. With this blog, I hope to provide information about my native land, as well as about its language and culture. The people of Lesotho are called Basotho (Mosotho, singular), and their language is Sesotho.
Lesotho: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesotho
Sesotho: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sesotho
Basotho: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basotho
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Hi Rethabile,
Have you seen Teboho Mahlatsi’s latest film Mekgeo and the Stick fighter set in Lesotho. Kind of a fable. At the same time like science fiction and an old-school Western rolled into one. Beautifully filmed.
Sean,
I haven’t. Thanks for the heads up. I’ll do all to get a hold of it. Your blog rocks.
Best
Rethabile
Hi Ret,
Finally found you ! I’m glad about it. How are you guys ?
Send me a mail to get in touch. We’ve moved and all the numbers and mail adresses have been changed also.
Kiss to all 4.
Nasser.
Wow! Nasser! I’m gonna send an email this afternoon as I won’t have time to write a proper one. Nice. Greetings to the growing family…
Hi Rethabile,
Thanks for wishing me luck….it’s amazing when the world can reach out to you this way….
Greate blog and very informative in a light hearted way
I’m happy to pass an award to you. Do come over and accept.
Im kabelo mokoena 4rm KZN and im trying to find “izithakazela”of the mokoena surname.PLZ HELP!
Lumela Ntate,
I’m a gabonese student. I’m studying sotho history and geography in Paris (France) and I’m looking for sotho people to improve my sesotho. I hope you can help me. I want to speak sesotho like a real sotho girl in six months ’cause I’ll go to Lesotho in July for my research. I was in Lesotho last year and I’ve really fallen in love with this country and these friendly people. I’m looking for your answer.
Kea leboha,
Wendy
Hello Rethabile. My name is Cheri Davies, I am from the UK. I have just returned from spending two weeks in your wonderful country running drama workshops with young people from the schools of Messaru (Khuetsoana, Phethahatso, Methodist, Sefika, St James, etc etc). We learnt so much from the children and we now have to produce a piece of drama for our university degree based on our experiences. I wondered if you might know of any playwrights or dramatists publishing in English that I might be able to get hold of to use as a stimulus? It would also be wonderful to use some of your poetry – would you mind and if not could you please let me know which poem you think would be best? While talking with the uni students at Roma we discovered that one of their main concerns about Lesotho is corruption (I’m assuming they mean within the political system etc, but I’m not sure as we didn’t get a huge amount of time to go into things) and also women’s rights, particularly the right to work. Could you shed any light on these topics? It would be very useful to know if the small amount of surface information we gleened from the younger children we met was indeed representative of the issues at hand? If you could help in any way, I would be most grateful? Thank you so much – Cheri
I wondered if you might know of any playwrights or dramatists publishing in English that I might be able to get hold of to use as a stimulus?
I don’t know any, unfortunately. But I’ll pass your question along to my home people.
It would also be wonderful to use some of your poetry – would you mind and if not could you please let me know which poem you think would be best?
Sure you can use my poetry, as long as it’s acknowledged properly and you inform me of where and how you’re using it. Tell me exactly how you want to use poetry and I might be able to help you choose.
While talking with the uni students at Roma we discovered that one of their main concerns about Lesotho is corruption (I’m assuming they mean within the political system etc, but I’m not sure as we didn’t get a huge amount of time to go into things) and also women’s rights, particularly the right to work. Could you shed any light on these topics?
I think there is indeed corruption in Lesotho, as there is in many other countries, especially if they’re developing. But it exists everywhere, in America it does, in France it does, in Swaziland it does. But in richer countries it is much less visible because people aren’t hungry. So, yes, there is political corruption in Lesotho, as well as other forms of corruption.
We will have to refer the question about women’s rights to my home people as well. As far as I know, civil law places man and woman on an equal footing, while traditional law doesn’t. In what way? In traditional law, he decides, she doesn’t. And this covers a lot of aspects of life. How does this interact with civil law? That’s where you’ll need to ask someone else.
You can ask here: sotho@googlegroups.com
Visit here: http://groups.google.com/group/sotho
Best
Dumela Rethable !
I’m french although native of Morija ( Scott Hospital in 1963) and grew my early childhood way up in the Malutis : on the misionary station of Molhanapeng (at that time there was no road : only horse or plane to reach the place ) !! Sotho was my second mother language but after having settled ten years in South Africa (Gauteng my father was minister for the basotho miners on the westreef) and came back to Europe at the age of 14, I now understand a little but hardly speak anymore !! However my heart is still sotho and I hope one day to come back a time !!
I love poetry too and this is the thing whch motivates this mail …if I could bing my help to the edition of a poetry book translated in french or a website on african poetry and ancestral wisdom !! Oh if only the white man had listened and learned from the people of Africa instead of blowing them away !! I’d love to hear more from you !
Khotso !
Sincerly , Thato (odile)
Hi Rethabile
My name is Dineo Tsoeu, born Dineo Moloi, sorry i might be late because this was in 2008, and i am also messing with your blog.
I am looking for my of whom i dont know, apperantly he is from Lesotho, his name is Taimane Mokoena, i would really loved to meet him, if i only knew where in Lesotho is he from that could have being better, but from what i hear he was a taxi driver, transporting people from South Africa to Lesotho, that where he meet with My mother Selina Moloi.
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