Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa to visit the Kingdom of Lesotho

PRETORIA - SADC Facilitator and South African Deputy President is expected to pay an official visit to the Kingdom of Lesotho on Tuesday, 09 May 2017, in pursuance of decisions of the SADC Summit of Heads of State and Government held in Swaziland in March this year. Lesotho is scheduled to hold general elections on 3 June this year.
 
In this regard, the SADC Summit decided that the Facilitator Deputy President Ramaphosa working in conjunction with the SADC Oversight Committee should visit Lesotho to “conduct a multi-stakeholder national dialogue before the elections of 3 June with the aim of building consensus and trust among all stakeholders and charting the way forward for the implementation of SADC decisions”.
 
Deputy President Ramaphosa will thus during the visit meet with His Majesty King Letsie III, Prime Minister Phakalitha Mosisili, the Independent Electoral Commission, opposition political party leaders, the Christian Council of Lesotho, the College of Chiefs and the NGO sector.
 
The Summit, while recognising that Lesotho is scheduled for general elections in June this year, has called on all relevant stakeholders to address the fundamental challenges facing the country and to work towards the creation of political stability of the country. It similarly mandated the Facilitator Deputy President Ramaphosa to closely monitor the political and security situation in the country during the elections.

 
Issued by Ronnie Mamoepa at 082-990-4853
 
The Presidency
Pretoria