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    The Basutoland Congress Party is a pan-Africanist and left-wing political party in Lesotho. The Basutoland African Congress (BAC) was founded in 1952...
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    Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) is a political party in Lesotho. In 1997, Prime Minister Ntsu Mokhehle left the Basutoland Congress Party to form...
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    The Basotho National Party is a political party in Lesotho, founded in 1959 in colonial Basutoland as the Basutoland National Party by Leabua Jonathan....
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    National Party (BDNP) Basotho Patriotic Party (BPP) Basutoland Total Liberation Congress (BTLC) Basutoland African Congress (BAC) Basutoland Congress Party (BCP)...
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    Leabua Jonathan (category Basotho National Party politicians)
    to the Pan Africanist Congress of South Africa who supported the Basutoland Congress Party (BCP) and Marematlou Freedom Party (MFP, but friendly to the...
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    Freedom Party and the Marema-Tlou Party (MTP). Soon after its formation several members of the Basutoland Congress Party defected to the MFP. When former...
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  • Potlako Leballo (category Basutoland Congress Party politicians)
    Africanist who led the Pan Africanist Congress until 1979. Leballo was co-founder of the Basutoland African Congress in 1952, a World War II veteran and...
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    Ntsu Mokhehle (category Basutoland Congress Party politicians)
    founded Basutoland African Congress (BAC) in 1952. He founded Basutoland Congress Party in 1957 then later in 1997 founded Lesotho Congress for Democracy...
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  • Lesotho Liberation Army (category Pan Africanist Congress of Azania)
    (APLA). It was the armed wing of the Basutoland Congress Party (BCP), a pan-Africanist and left-wing political party founded in 1952, which opposed the...
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  • language Bangla Congress, an Indian political party Basutoland African Congress or Basutoland Congress Party, a Lesotho political party Beijing Arbitration...
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  • California Basutoland Congress Party, a Pan-Africanist and left-wing political party in Lesotho Botswana Congress Party, a social democratic party in Botswana...
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    military and the backing of several political parties against the democratically elected Basutoland Congress Party (BCP) government led by Ntsu Mokhehle. Using...
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  • Alliance) Union Party (March 8 Alliance)  Lesotho Basutoland Congress Party Communist Party of Lesotho Democratic Congress Lesotho Congress for Democracy...
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    universal adult suffrage in which the Basotho National Party (BNP) won 31 and the Basutoland Congress Party (BCP) won 25 of the 65 seats contested. On October...
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    new Lesotho Congress for Democracy, which claimed 79 of the 80 seats. The party was formed by a breakaway from the Basutoland Congress Party, which had...
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  • Justin Lekhanya (category Basotho National Party politicians)
    University Leeman, B.N.T. (2011) The Lesotho Liberation Army Mphanya, Ntsukunyane (2004) "A Brief History of the Basutoland Congress Party" Morija, Lesotho...
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  • Monyane Moleleki (category Basutoland Congress Party politicians)
    was elected as Deputy Secretary General of the governing Basutoland Congress Party at a party conference in March 1996. In December 1996 he became Minister...
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    leader Nkaku Kabi. Although the Democratic Congress party ran its campaign opposing the ABC, the party's recent support for the coalition government...
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    victory of the opposition Basutoland Congress Party (BCP, led by Ntsu Mokhehle) over the ruling Basotholand National Party (BNP, led by Jonathan) in the...
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    army in August 1979 and was expanded in the 1980s in response to Basutoland Congress Party insurgent activities. After the January 1986 military coup that...
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    leader Nkaku Kabi. Although the Democratic Congress party ran its campaign opposing the ABC, the party's recent support for the coalition government...
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  • general election showed the ruling Basotho National Party losing to the Basutoland Congress Party. Libyan Revolutionary Command Council (headed by Muammar...
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    History of the African National Congress, Pan Africanist Congress, South African Communist Party and Basutoland Congress Party, 1780-1994. London: University...
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  • Alliance of Congress Parties is an electoral alliance in Lesotho, consisting of the Lesotho Peoples' Congress, the Basutoland African Congress, and the Basotho...
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  • Thumbnail for 1993 Lesotho general election
    ruling Basotho National Party annulled the results of the 1970 elections, which they had lost to the Basutoland Congress Party. Of the 736,930 registered...
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    Philosophy 1990 Dr. Ntsu Clement Mokhehle, Former Leader of the Basutoland Congress Party, Doctor of Laws 1990 Dr. Sam Nujoma, President of the Republic...
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  • Ellen 'Maposholi Molapo (category Basutoland Congress Party politicians)
    National Congress. Having attended first conference of the Basutoland Congress Party (BCP), she began campaigning for the party amongst other Basutoland expatriates...
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  • election as member of the Basutoland Congress Party (BCP). He further won it in 1998 and 2002 under a new party Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD). In...
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    expelled from Maseru (where it was allied with the opposition Basutoland Congress Party) and Zambia (which was friendlier to the ANC). Between 1974 and...
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  • Democratic Congress (DC) led by Mosisili won 30 seats, the Lesotho Congress for Democracy party (LCD) secured 11 seats whilst numerous minor parties won 27...
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