The South African (SA) Deputy Minister of Sports Arts and Culture, Peace Mabe is in Lesotho for a four-day bilateral engagements.
The delegation will participate in site visits, including to Chief Langalibalele’s shelter in the Mokhotlong district.
The entourage will also proceed to lay wreaths in memory of the lives lost during the Maseru Massacre on December 9, 1982 and December 20, 1985 in preparation for the repatriation of some of the remains of South Africans still in Maseru.
SA Minister of Arts, Sports and Culture Gayton McKenzie is on a weeklong bilateral engagement to Lesotho.
The tour will include high level discussions with her Lesotho’s counterpart to revive and advance a draft agreement on cooperation in arts, agriculture and heritage.
While the four day visit will touch on broad aspects of co-operation, the key priority this time is working on the final arrangements of repatriating the remains of the African National Congress’s 1982 and 1985 massacre cadres.
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