Former Lesotho’s Prime Minister, Thomas Thabane
By Marafaele Mohloboli, MASERU Lesotho
Lesotho’s Prime Minister, Thomas Thabane resigned on
Tuesday, removing the main hurdle to resolving a political crisis that engulfed
the small southern African mountain kingdom late last year.
Thabane’s
departure marks the end of one of Lesotho’s longest political careers, one
marked by exile, feuding, intrigue, tensions with the military and a political
crisis that erupted when police named him as a suspect in a murder case late
last year.
His own All
Basotho Convention (ABC) party, opposition figures and South African mediators,
had been heaping pressure on the prime minister to resign over a case in which
he and his current wife are suspected of conspiring to murder his former wife
nearly three years ago.
They have
both denied any involvement.
“I plead
with the entire nation and leadership to give my successor utmost support, and
on my part I wish to assure him of my support at all material times,” he added.
Finance
minister Moeketsi Majoro has been named by parliament as Thabane’s interim
replacement.
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