As INTERNATIONAL tension mounts over South Africa’s policy of apartheid, a series of events have, focused attention on the three little-known territories of Basutoland, Bechuanaland, and Swaziland.

Clad in gay robes and conical straw hats, hard-riding Basuto tribesmen last week poured into their hilltop capital of Maseru. The joyous occasion: the royal marriage in the Roman Catholic cathedral of ...

FUNDAMENTAL changes in the life and economy of the natives of Basutoland are foreshadowed by the report (Cmd. 4907. H.M. Stationery Office) of the Commission, of which Sir Alan Pirn is chairman, ...

Basutoland is a tiny (11,716 sq. mi.) British crown colony, entirely surrounded by the Union of South Africa. In theory, Basutoland is two-thirds Christian, but the real source of ultimate power, in ...

AMONG the simpler peoples, we are told by members of the functional school of anthro pological thought, no element of culture can be studied apart from its social context. This axiom, writ large, is ...

Since I was in Basutoland five years ago they have been hanging here like anything. The jail down at Maseru has nine in the death cell now. They hang for terrible things. One man slew his mother, He ...

The disputed territory includes the entire Free State province, along with parts of KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape in South Africa. The Kingdom of Lesotho has filed a petition with the United ...