Riyaz Patel
President Cyril Ramaphosa is scheduled to travel to Lesotho Thursday 4 July to discuss a range of bilateral and regional issues.
Wider African matters as well as international developments are also expected to feature on the agenda.
In his capacity as the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Facilitator to Lesotho, he will also be briefed on the progress of the reform process in the Kingdom.
The president’s visit comes a week after Lesotho Prime Minister Tom Thabane was suspended by the national executive of his party All Basotho Convention (ABC).
That battle for control of the governing party has seen chiefs of the army, police and intelligence warning the factions against deploying illegal militias after armed men in balaclavas stormed the party offices in the capital Maseru.
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