Lesotho

What is marriage? To many of us marriage is defined as the contractual union between a man and a woman in which they are bound to one another and also share responsibilities ranging from the establishment of a sexual relationship, child-rearing to financial responsibilities. Generally, we can define marriage in 2 ways, namely: 1. Conjugal: “A conjugal relationship concentrates on the universal core functions of marriage, which are usually related to control of or rights over sexual activity, and…

Cross-border migration in the sub Saharan region can be traced back to as early as the 1950s in which migrants from the SADC migrated to South Africa in search of employment opportunities with over 260 000 labour migrants in 1970 (Crush et al., 2005). However, during the apartheid regime in South Africa, citizens were not allowed to travel across international boundaries so as foreign visitors were not allowed to enter the country (Boyd, 1989; Makina, 2012b; Chereni, 2014). The post-apartheid…

Terms like “development”, the division between “developed” and “developing” countries and the desirability of industrial growth, are for the most part, taken for granted in mainstream and even some critical theories of development. However, these terms are not neutral descriptors, rather they are part of a larger regime of development discourse and are implicated in the maintenance of unequal global power relations. Building on the Foucauldian concept of discourse, anthropologists like Escobar…

In order to understand the concept of jugal marriage, the concept of conjugal marriage should be identified. Conjugal marriage is a marriage in which the relationship is seen as a stable union of two people who have the rights over sexual activity of the other as well as legitimising their children. The jugal definition of marriage is when the marriage of two people is predetermined through an exchange of rights, status, goods, money or obligations. The marriage is a form of transaction meaning…

the 168 countries on which I collected data-for Harvard University’s Project on Global Working Families and at Mc Gill University-164 have found a way to guarantee paid maternity leave. The only ones that haven’t are Papua, New Guinea, Swaziland, Lesotho and the United States.” Not only does this statement provide specific facts and information pertaining the topic of maternity leave, it also displays the credibility of the information she, herself, researched for Harvard and Mc Gill University.…

Desmond Tutu, a South African Anglican cleric who went on to become one of the world’s most foremost spiritual leaders, was born on October 7th, 1931, of mixed Xhosa and Motswana heritage in Klerksdorp, South Africa. While Tutu was growing up, South Africa was thoroughly segregated. Black Africans were denied the right to vote and had to live in specific areas, whereas white Africans could do as they pleased. Despite this, Desmond Tutu managed to have a happy childhood, as he loved to read and…

Cheetahs are the fastest land animals in the world with a maximum speed of 75 miles per hour. But did you know that the “South African cheetah is extinct in Lesotho, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Malawi” as said in wikipedia.. Have you heard that an adult South African cheetahs can be 28 to 35 inches tall at the top of the shoulder. They are also a total length of 63 to 73 inches and weigh between 46 to 160 pounds. The scientific name for a South African cheetah is an Acinonyx…

The transition from apartheid to democracy in South Africa leading into the general election of 1994 was turbulent, to say the least. The election itself was marred by car bombings, among other incidents, but the outcome was widely expected. The 77 year old Mandela’s inauguration was televised to a billion viewers worldwide and attended by world leaders of various backgrounds, signifying to the world at large how important an event the election had been. The task at hand, the reconciliation of…

Equal treatment is something all individuals should have yet, in many cases gender can determine if a woman has the right to an education, employment, and equal treatment. Many of these examples were depicted in the class film. The differences in the life of four adolescent teens from various countries which were ranked among the highest and lowest on the gender equality scale. The film also sheds light on how girls and women saw themselves and their roles as females living in societies that…

Africa. Temperate grassland covers most of Southern Africa. Montains and wet grassland are situated around the Lakes Victoria, Tanganyika, and Malawi which hold a quarter of the world's supply of fresh drinking water. With ski resorts in Algeria, Lesotho and South Africa and Morocco to Deserts in Ethiopia, Kenya and Djibouti... Tropical rainforest in Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic and more... We see Africa as one country yet look at how diverse and…