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Item Alliances, coalitions and the political system in Lesotho 2007-2012(Journal of African Elections, 2014) Kapa, Motlamelle Anthony; Shale, V.This paper assesses political party alliances and coalitions in Lesotho, focusing on their causes and their consequences for party systems, democratic consolidation, national cohesion and state governability. We agree with Kapa (2008) that formation of the pre-2007 alliances can be explained in terms of office-seeking theory in that the political elite used alliances to access and retain power. These alliances altered the country�s party system, leading to conflict between parties inside and outside Parliament, as well as effectively changing the mixed member proportional (MMP) electoral system into a parallel one, thereby violating the spirit of the system. However, the phenomenon did not change state governability; it effectively perpetuated the one-party dominance of the Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) and threatened national cohesion. The post-2012 coalition, on the other hand,was a product of a hung parliament produced by the elections. The impact of the coalition on the party system, state governability and democratic consolidation is yet to be determined as the coalition phenomenon is still new. However, state governability has been marked by a generally very slow pace of policy implementation and the party system has been both polarised and reconfigured while national cohesion has been strengthened. The major challenge for political leaders is to manage the coalition arrangement for the good of the country, which we strongly feel they must, since it seems that coalition governments are very likely to be a permanent feature of Lesotho politics.Item Analysis of Lesotho's education budget in the context of inclusive Education for All (EFA)(International Journal of Business and Finance Management Research, 2014) Nyabanyaba, T.Item Analysis of Research Funding and Management Modules in Higher Education: The Case of National University of Lesotho(Lesotho Social Science Review Special Issue on Higher Education, 2013) Mapetla, M. M.Item The challenges encountered by people with physical disabilities at work(National University of Lesotho, 2024-05) Senekane, RelopolotsoePeople with disabilities (PWDs) are a leading minority group globally, that anyone can become its member at any given time (Aroonsrimorakot, Laiphrakpan, Nilthongkum et al., 2020). In addition to accidents, population ageing and chronic health conditions such as diabetes contribute to the increasing prevalence of disability (Alswang, Bandawe, Bastian et al., 2022). To its members, disability is an obstacle to success. Gaining employment is an uphill struggle for PWDs, because they face recruitment discrimination. When they have been successfully enrolled in employment, they are confronted with human rights issues that exposes them to innumerable challenges such as stigma, discrimination and all sorts of inequalities. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate the challenges that PWDs encountered in the workplace in Maseru. The study employed a qualitative research approach to investigate the challenges and to achieve the objectives. The objectives of the study were to find out the employer’s contribution to ‘reasonably accommodate’ workers with disabilities, to explore the workplace relationships between PWDs and other employees and to investigate the stigma experiences of PWDs in the workplace. In-depth interviews were used to collect data from twelve people with disabilities, who were and have been employed in Maseru. Purposive and snowball sampling techniques were used in the collection of data. The data collected were analysed using thematic analysis. The findings of the study indicated that stigma and discrimination were the most pervasive and persistent barriers. The study confirmed that some participants with disabilities were discriminated and stigmatised when they came for interviews and others when they first reported for work. The participants were not ‘reasonably accommodated’ in terms of transport provision, housing, support and the built environment. Furthermore, the participants had strained relationships with both colleagues and managers, they were discriminated during promotions and were excluded in extra-mural activities. The findings suggest a need for interventions by the employers to ‘reasonably accommodate’ workers with disabilities and to reduce stigma especially enacted stigma that seems to prevail in the workplace, in Maseru.Item Challenges experienced by social workers after handling traumatic cases in Maseru district hospitals, Lesotho(National University of Lesotho, 2021-07) Ngatane, Tiisetso; James, PriyaThere is an increase in trauma cases in Lesotho and globally, and this leaves social workers with a lot of work to help survivors of the traumatic events to cope. The main objective of the study was to explore the challenges experienced by social workers after handling traumatic cases in Maseru district hospitals, Lesotho and data was collected in the first two weeks of May. In spite of the high increase of traumatic cases, that expose social workers to different kinds of traumatic material, there is lack of literature, both in Lesotho and globally. This study took a qualitative and phenomenological research design to interview ten social workers from Maseru district hospitals and their affiliating clinics in the first two weeks of May 2021. Participants were selected using purposive and snowballing techniques, while data was collected using unstructured interviews and each interview lasted for forty to sixty minutes and was analyzed using content analysis. The study found out that majority of social workers experience challenges after handling traumatic cases, these challenges include anxiety, tiredness, loss of concentration, insomnia, irritation and stability, low mood, low self-esteem, avoidance, poor service delivery, lack of support, re-experiencing of traumatic events and affected interpersonal relationships. However, the study also found few social workers stated that they receive support from supervisors, they do not experience the client’ traumatic events, and their self-esteem is not affected. The study recommendations include escalation of awareness of the challenges experienced by social workers, the other recommendation to agencies and supervisors is to frame and develop professional network forum with different professionals and volunteers who can help each other.Item Challenges experienced by social workers after handling traumatic cases in Maseru district hospitals, Lesotho(National University of Lesotho, 2021-07) Ngatane, Tiisetso; James, PriyaThere is an increase in trauma cases in Lesotho and globally, and this leaves social workers with a lot of work to help survivors of the traumatic events to cope. The main objective of the study was to explore the challenges experienced by social workers after handling traumatic cases in Maseru district hospitals, Lesotho and data was collected in the first two weeks of May. In spite of the high increase of traumatic cases, that expose social workers to different kinds of traumatic material, there is lack of literature, both in Lesotho and globally. This study took a qualitative and phenomenological research design to interview ten social workers from Maseru district hospitals and their affiliating clinics in the first two weeks of May 2021. Participants were selected using purposive and snowballing techniques, while data was collected using unstructured interviews and each interview lasted for forty to sixty minutes and was analyzed using content analysis. The study found out that majority of social workers experience challenges after handling traumatic cases, these challenges include anxiety, tiredness, loss of concentration, insomnia, irritation and stability, low mood, low self-esteem, avoidance, poor service delivery, lack of support, re-experiencing of traumatic events and affected interpersonal relationships. However, the study also found few social workers stated that they receive support from supervisors, they do not experience the client’ traumatic events, and their self-esteem is not affected. The study recommendations include escalation of awareness of the challenges experienced by social workers, the other recommendation to agencies and supervisors is to frame and develop professional network forum with different professionals and volunteers who can help each other.Item Challenges of accessing family planning services by women of reproductive age in Maseru Industrial Areas(National University of Lesotho, 2023-07) Lephoto, Mafumane JaneThe focus of the study was on challenges faced by women of reproductive age when accessing family planning services in Maseru. The research is qualitative in nature as it sought to enable the respondents to express themselves without many interruptions. The socio-economic as well as cultural and health factors that influence women’s access to contraceptives have been documented in the study. The study findings revealed that there is high knowledge of contraceptive use among women. Respondents used mostly pills and injections. The health-related effects of using these contraceptives such as weight-gain, heavy menstrual flow and nausea resulted into some women no longer seeking family planning services even when they had confided in the healthcare worker about their problems. Contraceptives are accessed freely in public hospitals and clinics in Lesotho but young women in the study stated that they often buy expensive contraceptives in private clinics and hospitals to avoid humiliating questions that health workers in public hospitals and clinics ask them. However, married women are treated better in healthcare facilities when they seek contraceptives. COVID-19 also became a challenge for women to access contraceptives in Lesotho due to the strict lockdowns that were put in place by the government to curb the spread of the disease in 2020. This resulted in movement restrictions and when some women did manage to visit hospitals to get contraceptives, security officials would often harass them which influenced them to sometimes not get their contraceptive package. Long queues and congestion in hospitals made some women not to seek services as they feared contracting COVID-19. Shortage on contraception method of choice also made some women to abandon use of contraceptives. With these various challenges, the researcher advices the government to make contraceptive access adolescent-youth friendly so that young people receiving the services express themselves freely instead of feeling prejudiced. Access to family planning services should be there all the time even in pandemics like that of COVID-19. COVID-19 should, in fact, serve as a lesson in strengthening access. Contraceptive access and, delivery should not be hampered and, the policy makers, health rights activists should keep on reminding the government v and relevant stakeholders in the delivery of family planning services to prioritize the delivery of family planning, and should also not leave men behind in this discourse. They have a crucial role in the drive for women to access family planning services effectivelyItem Chiefs, Democracy and Popular Participation(African Studies, 2013) Kapa, Motlamelle AnthonyItem The Chieftainship in Lesotho: To retain or to abolish?(South African Journal for Political Science and Public Administration, 2014) Kapa, Motlamelle AnthonyItem �The Chieftainship-local councils� relationship and service delivery in Lesotho: A case study of four community councils(African Journal of Public Administration, 2014) Kapa, Motlamelle AnthonyItem Community participation in health education programmes: A case of study of a tuberculosis programme in the rural communities of Thabana-Morena, Lesotho(National University of Lesotho, 2012-09) Molale, Mosemote G.Item Consolidating Democracy through integrating the Chieftainship Institution with elected Councils in Lesotho: A case study of four community councils in Maseru(Rhodes University, 2010-12) Kapa, Motlamelle Anthony; Dr. Hoeane, ThabisiThis study analyses the relationship between the chieftainship institution and the elected councils in Lesotho. Based on a qualitative case study method the study seeks to understand this relationship in four selected councils in the Maseru district and how this can be nurtured to achieve a consolidated democracy. Contrary to modernists‟ arguments (that indigenous African political institutions, of which the chieftainship is part, are incompatible with liberal democracy since they are, inter alia, hereditary, they compete with their elective counterparts for political power, they threaten the democratic consolidation process, and they are irrelevant to democratising African systems), this study finds that these arguments are misplaced. Instead, chieftainship is not incompatible with liberal democracy per se. It supports the democratisation process (if the governing parties pursue friendly and accommodative policies to it) but uses its political agency in reaction to the policies of ruling parties to protect its survival interests, whether or not this undermines democratic consolidation process. The chieftainship has also acted to defend democracy when the governing party abuses its political power to undermine democratic rule. It performs important functions in the country. Thus, it is still viewed by the country‟s political leadership, academics, civil society, and councillors as legitimate and highly relevant to the Lesotho‟s contemporary political system. Because of the inadequacies of the government policies and the ambiguous chieftainship-councils integration model, which tend to marginalise the chieftainship and threaten its survival, its relationship with the councils was initially characterised by conflict. However, this relationship has improved, due to the innovative actions taken not by the central government, but by the individual Councils and chiefs themselves, thus increasing the prospects for democratic consolidation. I argue for and recommend the adoption in Lesotho of appropriate variants of the mixed government model to integrate the chieftainship with the elected councils, based on the re-contextualised and re-territorialised conception and practice of democracy, which eschews its universalistic EuroAmerican version adopted by the LCD government, but recognises and preserves the chieftainship as an integral part of the Basotho society, the embodiment of its culture, history, national identity and nationhood.Item Correlates of Condom Use Within Marriage in Lesotho(Lesotho Social Sciences Review, 2014) Makatjane, T. J.; Oguntoyinbo, B. O.; Phuduhutswana, M.Item Determinants of attitudes, patronage intentions and the desire to spend at a Mall(KCA University, 2016) Khaola, Peter, P; Ramokepa, NtsoabengShopping malls are a new concept in Lesotho. Even though scholarship on factors that influence shopping in malls is not new, some findings are inconsistent and inconclusive. Furthermore, consumer psychologists warn against generalising results from different environments because cultures and lifestyles differ. The aim of this paper is to examine attributes that influence young shoppers’ attitude, patronage intentions and desire to spent time at the Pioneer Shopping mall in Maseru, Lesotho. The sample consisted of 200 students from the National University of Lesotho located about 35KM from where the mall is based. The results generally suggest that mall atmospherics had positive and strong association with young shoppers’ attitude, patronage intentions and desire to spend time at the mall. Even though the perception of mall service influenced the desire of young shoppers to spend time at the mall, it neither influenced the young shoppers’ attitude nor their patronage intentions. We discuss these results and provide managerial implications and prospects for future research.Item Determinants of attitudes, patronage intentions and the desire to spend at a Mall(KCA University, 2016) Khaola, Peter, P; Ramokepa, NtsoabengShopping malls are a new concept in Lesotho. Even though scholarship on factors that influence shopping in malls is not new, some findings are inconsistent and inconclusive. Furthermore, consumer psychologists warn against generalising results from different environments because cultures and lifestyles differ. The aim of this paper is to examine attributes that influence young shoppers’ attitude, patronage intentions and desire to spent time at the Pioneer Shopping mall in Maseru, Lesotho. The sample consisted of 200 students from the National University of Lesotho located about 35KM from where the mall is based. The results generally suggest that mall atmospherics had positive and strong association with young shoppers’ attitude, patronage intentions and desire to spend time at the mall. Even though the perception of mall service influenced the desire of young shoppers to spend time at the mall, it neither influenced the young shoppers’ attitude nor their patronage intentions. We discuss these results and provide managerial implications and prospects for future research.Item Determinants of Fertility in Lesotho: Application of Generalised Poison Regression Model(Lesotho Social Sciences Review, 2014) Makatjane, T. J.; Moeti, M.Item Determinants of public-private partnership activity in Sub-Saharan Africa(National University of Lesotho, 2022-06-17) Motsoane, TebelloPublic-Private Partnerships are seen as an alternative for infrastructure development in the face of financial constraints in many developing countries. Using panel data from 36 selected Sub-Saharan African countries from 1996 to 2019, the study uses both the Pooled OLS and Negative Binomial regressions to determine the drivers of PPP activity in the medium term. PPP activity, the dependent variable, is measured in two ways: average total investments and; as the total number of PPP projects. The results of the study show favorable market conditions, as proxied by population and GDP per capita, to be the most significant determinants of PPP activity as they represent demand and affordability respectively. For macroeconomic conditions, the results show that money supply and high debt levels are also key in determining PPP activity. Though some of the results on governance are inconsistent with expectations while others are not significant, improvement of overall governance conditions leads to increased PPP investments. In order to attract the required levels of PPP investment to bridge the infrastructure gap, the study recommends that SSA regions formulate policies that will improve market conditions and strengthen governance and accountability systems.Item The effects of teenage pregnancy on teenage mother(National University of Lesotho, 2022-06-07) Phoobane, JabolinaThe study explores the effects of teenage pregnancy on teenage mothers at Ha Ratsiu and Lithabaneng in Berea. The study is deemed significant in that it may raise awareness on the psychosocial effects of teenage pregnancy on teenage mothers, thus, assisting the government and relevant stakeholders to recognise the need to enact policies to reduce effects of teenage pregnancy in Lesotho. The study examines the psychological effects, and discover social effects as well as interventions to reduce the psychosocial effects of teenage pregnancy. Qualitative research and phenomenology design was undertaken to assist the researcher to gather natural data, understand and interpret meanings. The study established that teenage mothers face financial difficulties, rejections from partners, as such, lack of family support led them to having feelings of depression, poor self-image, stress and suicidal thoughts. The findings also revealed that teenage mothers drop out of school due to parents not being able to pay for their fees while providing for their babies’ needs too; and others are expelled from school due to pregnancy. Apart from that, teenage pregnancy and motherhood result in deteriorating relationships with both parents and friends. The study shows that there are various measures to reduce the psychosocial effects of teenage pregnancy on teenage mothers in Ha Ratsiu and Lithabaneng, Berea, Lesotho. Such measures include, amongst others, financial support from the government in the form of scholarships and grants as well as teenage mothers support groups. The study concludes that teenage pregnancy has psychological and negative social effects on teenage mothers such as depression and dropping out of school; and lack of social support makes normal functioning increasingly difficult for teenage mothers as they face new roles and responsibilities. The recommendations include the formulation of abortion policies to provide pregnant teenagers with safe termination of pregnancy and reduction of abortion-related deaths. In addition, forming teenage mothers support groups within communities for teenage mothers to draw strength and support from members who share similar experiences and challenges in LesothoItem Environmental concern, attitude towards green products and green purchase intentions of consumers in Lesotho(Ethopian Journal of Environmental Studies & Management, 2014-06-05) Khaola, Peter, P; Potiane, B; Mokhethi, M" # $ "Item Environmental concern, attitude towards green products and green purchase intentions of consumers in Lesotho(Ethopian Journal of Environmental Studies & Management, 2014-06-05) Khaola, Peter, P; Potiane, B; Mokhethi, M! " # $ "