
[miningmx.com] – SOUTH African president, Jacob Zuma, will visit Lesotho today (September 9) in an effort to keep his brokered peace deal in the quarrelling kingdom together after its prime minister, Thomas Thabane, looked set to break the terms of the pact, said BDLive.
The peace deal included the reopening of parliament, but Thabane said this had become impossible as General Tlali Kamoli, who led a mutiny earlier this month, had seized weapons. “The situation in the country is not stable — how do we reopen parliament under these conditions?,” said Thabane.
“We have a renegade army general who has gone rogue with some weapons from the country’s armoury and refuses to submit to authority. This is not the time to reopen parliament,” he said.
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