Lesotho: Call to Scrap ‘Apartheid-Era’ Passport Control With Lesotho

A human rights organisation has petitioned South Africa’s Parliament to scrap passports at Lesotho borders

A human rights organisation in Lesotho has petitioned South Africa’s Parliament to remove passport requirements between the two countries, saying it is “an apartheid-era control mechanism [that] continues to regulate the daily lives of ordinary people in a democratic era”.

On Monday, Advocates for the Supremacy of the Constitution, known as Section Two, submitted the petition. The group…