The Rise and Fall of Lesotho Prime Minister Leabua Jonathan:1950-1986

LEABUA JOSEPH JONATHAN MOLAPO (31st October 1914 - 5th April 1987) rose from insignificance to prominence. His Late mother MONICA ¿MAKATISO Jonathan was one of the most junior of seventy-seven (77) wives of the District Chief of LERIBE, Jonathan MOLAPO (1844-1928). In the pre-independence period (prior to 1966) LEABUA JONATHAN¿s domestic political opponents demonised him as an apartheid tool. In early 1964 his political opponents circulated a document throughout LESOTHO purported to have been signed by LEABUA Jonathan in which he allegedly agreed with the Apartheid policy of South Africa. This was a form of propaganda.