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^{page 221 note 2} Roger Leys, ‘Lesotho: Non-Development or Underdevelopment. Towards an Analysis of the Political Economy of the Labor Reserve’, in Shaw, Timothy M. and Heard, Kenneth A. (eds.), The Politics of Africa: dependence and development (London, 1979), pp. 95–129Google Scholar.

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^{page 223 note 1} For an excellent discussion, see Saul, John S., ‘The Dialectic of Class and Tribe’, in Race and Class (London), XX, 4, Spring 1979, pp. 347–72Google Scholar.

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^{page 227 note 1} ‘Prime Minister Addresses BNP Youth Rally’, in Nketu oa Mara (Maseru), 19 07 1968, p. 5Google Scholar.

^{page 228 note 1} A thorough analysis of factors undermining B.N.P. popularity appears in Macartney, W. J. A., ‘The Lesotho General Election of 1970’, in Government and Opposition (London), 8, 4, Autumn 1973, pp. 121–40Google Scholar.

^{page 228 note 2} A fine presentation of the domestic determinants of Chief Jonathan's foreign-policy reorientation appears in Hirschmann, David, ‘Changes in Lesotho's Policy Towards South Africa’, in African Affairs (London), 78, 311, 04 1979, pp. 177–96Google Scholar. See also Weisfelder, Richard F., ‘Lesotho: changing patterns of dependence’, in Carter, Gwendolen M. and O'Meara, Patrick (eds.), Southern Africa: the continuing crisis (Bloomington, 1979), pp. 249–68Google Scholar.

^{page 229 note 1} Within hours of Chief Jonathan's fiery speech at the Non-Aligned Conference in Havana in September 1979, the Minister of Commerce and Industry was inviting South African business to participate in developing Lesotho.

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^{page 231 note 1} Eckert, Jerry and Mohapi, Joseph N., ‘The Future Environment for Agricultural Planning, 1980–2000 AD’, Ministry of Agriculture Discussion Paper No. 9, Lesotho Agricultural Sector Analysis Project, Maseru, 1980, pp. 20–5Google Scholar.

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^{page 234 note 1} Confidential source. This same point is also made by Gray, John, Robertson, Neil, and Walton, Michael, ‘Lesotho: a strategy for survival after the golden seventies’, in South African Labour Bulletin (Durban), 6, 1, 11 1980, p. 67Google Scholar.

^{page 235 note 1} The most comprehensive studies appear in ‘Focus on Lesotho’, a special issue of the South African Labour Bulletin, 6, 4, 11 1980Google Scholar. The articles include Murray, Colin, ‘From Granary to Labour Reserve’, pp. 3–21Google Scholar, and ‘The Effects of Migrant Labour: a review of the evidence from Lesotho’, pp. 21–39; Gay, Judy, ‘Wage Employment of Basotho Women: a case study’, pp. 40–53Google Scholar; Showers, Kate, ‘A Note on Women, Conflict and Labour Migration’, pp. 54–7Google Scholar; Murray, Colin, ‘“Stabilization” and Structural Unemployment’, pp. 58–61Google Scholar; and Gray, Robertson, and Walton, ‘Lesotho’, loc. cit. pp. 62–78.

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^{page 236 note 2} This issue is discussed throughout Wallman, Sandra, Take Out Hunger: two case studies of rural development (New York, 1969)Google Scholar.

^{page 237 note 1} A quantitative analysis can be found in Weisfelder, Richard F., ‘Defining National Purpose: the roots of factionalism in Lesotho’, Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 1975, pp. 339–61Google Scholar.

^{page 237 note 2} See Macartney, ‘The Lesotho General Election of 1970’, and Weisfelder, Richard F., ‘Lesotho’, in Potholm, Christian P. and Dale, Richard (eds.), Southern Africa in Perspective: essays in regional politics (New York, 1972), pp. 125–40Google Scholar.

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^{page 239 note 1} Prime Minister Jonathan himself urged Basotho miners to stop contributing funds to the B.C.P. and L.L.A. There is no reason to presume that their support is restricted to cash. See ‘Funds for Lesotho Revolt’, in Rand Daily Mail (Johannesburg), 24 12 1979Google Scholar.

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^{page 240 note 2} Authoritarian techniques for limiting political conflict are discussed in Holm, , ‘political Stability in Lesotho’, pp. 3–16Google Scholar.

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^{page 244 note 1} Most writers who deal with Basotho irredenta do so only to demonstrate the absurdity of the ‘Homelands’ policy, and not to examine the potentials for conflict or complications of class relations which they create. See Lye, William F. and Murray, Colin, Transformations on the Highveld: the Tswana and Southern Sotho (Cape Town, 1980), pp. 98–105 and 146–7Google Scholar.

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^{page 247 note 1} An interesting discussion of common bonds among the Basotho and Batswana appears in Lye and Murray, op. cit. pp. 1–23.

^{page 247 note 2} According to Dennis Etheridge of the Anglo–American Corporation, more than 50 per cent of Basotho migrant miners are able to visit their homes as often as every six weeks. Such a massive flow of people allows ample opportunity for illegal infiltration. Moreover, South African methods are by no means completely successful with respect to their own police installations and vital facilities. See ‘Dr Jonathan Invites Investors’, in Lesotho Weekly (Maseru), 30 09 1978, p. 5Google Scholar.

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^{page 250 note 2} There is an excellent discussion of the problems faced by exiles in John A. Marcum, ‘The Exile Condition and Revolutionary Effectiveness: Southern African liberation movements’, in Potholm and Dale (eds.), op. cit. pp. 262–75.

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