Illegal military camps in SA

MASERU'S CLAIM: 'INSURGENCY' IS UNDER INVESTIGATION, SAYS POLICE CHIEF

- Sechaba Mokhethi

In an extraordinary joint press briefing at the police headquarters in Maseru on Friday, the heads of the Lesotho Defence Force, Lesotho Mounted Police Service and other national security organs warned of what they describe as a growing national threat, involving the recruitment and military training of Basotho youths on farms in South Africa.

The security agencies alleged that a group calling itself Malata Naha, or Land Reclaimers, is backed by foreign interests and engaged in a dangerous campaign of misinformation to lure young people to its training facilities.