Lesotho's Anti-Corruption Paradox - Empowered but Undermined

Lesotho's Anti-Corruption Paradox - Empowered but Undermined

Analysis - Over the past decade, Lesotho's political landscape has been marked by repeated leadership turnover and fragile coalition governments, which have steadily eroded public trust. Power oscillated between Pakalitha Mosisili--first as leader of the Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) and later the Democratic Congress (DC)--and Tom Thabane of the All-Basotho Convention (ABC), itself an offshoot of the LCD. Thabane's first term (2012-15) en…