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he paper remonstrates that MoAfrika FM, a private sister radio station of the paper, is already doing the community broadcasting. Mafeteng has access to only two radio stations in the country; state owned Radio Lesotho and the self same MoAfrika FM which has publicly pronounced its support for the ruling party and present government.

The paper says the community radio station seeks to “kunyula bo-Morgan Tsvangirai ba Lesotho nako e sa le teng” (Loosely translated: to assist the Morgan Tsvangirais of Lesotho to campaign for the next election).

This follows widespread story that MISA Lesotho and UNESCO are planning to set up a radio station in Mafeteng.  This would be the first community radio station in Lesotho. All other radio stations are based in Maseru and do not adequately address relevant community issues of many areas in the country as all private radio stations broadcast only 50km radius.   

UNESCO and MISA Lesotho held a training workshop for core groups on Community Multimedia Centre (CMC) in the Mafeteng district on 3-7 November 2008. This followed a feasibility study undertaken by the two organizations in July 2008. This would be the first radio station to be owned and managed by the community in Lesotho. It is expected the radio station will operate before the end of 2009.

Rashweat Mukundu
Programme Specialist: Media Freedom Monitoring
MISA Regional Secretariat
21 Johann Albrecht Street
Private Bag 13386
Windhoek, Namibia
Tel: + 264 61 232 975
Fax:+264 61 248016
Mobile: 00 264 813 675 362
E mail rashweat@misa.org, misaalerts@gmail.com

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