Lesotho: Call to Scrap Passports Between Lesotho and SA

Lesotho’s opposition Basotho Action Party has launched a campaign to ease cross-border travel using national identity cards

• A Lesotho opposition party, Basotho Action Party, has launched a campaign urging the government to abolish the use of passports between Lesotho and South Africa.
• Party leader Nqosa Mahao is calling for citizens to be allowed to use national ID cards for cross-border movement and for residency purposes.
• Lesotho home affairs minister says both countries’ governments are…