Pakalitha Mosisili
| Pakalitha Mosisili | |
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| 6th Prime Minister of Lesotho | |
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Assumed office 17 March 2015 |
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| Monarch | Letsie III |
| Preceded by | Tom Thabane |
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In office 29 May 1998 – 8 June 2012 |
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| Preceded by | Ntsu Mokhehle |
| Succeeded by | Tom Thabane |
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Member of Parliament for Qacha's Nek |
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Assumed office 1993 |
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| Personal details | |
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14 March 1945 Qacha's Nek, Basutoland |
| Nationality | Mosotho |
| Political party |
Democratic Congress (2012–) LCD (1997–2012) BCP (1967–1997) |
| Spouse(s) | Mathato Mosisili |
| Children | 4 |
| Alma mater |
UBLS (BA) University of Wisconsin (MA) UNISA (BA (Hons)) Simon Fraser University (MEd) |
Bethuel Pakalitha Mosisili (born 14 March 1945) is a Mosotho politician who has been Prime Minister of Lesotho since March 2015. He previously served as Prime Minister from May 1998 to June 2012. He led the Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD), to a near-total victory in the 1998 election, and under his leadership the party also won majorities in the 2002 and 2007 elections. While serving as Prime Minister, Mosisili was also Minister of Defense.
Following the snap election held on 28 February 2015, he managed to form and lead a coalition government. He was sworn in on 17 March 2015.
Mosisili was born near Qacha's Nek. He was educated at the Eagle's Peak High School, where he attained his Cambridge Overseas School Certificate in 1965. He then pursued his higher education at the University of Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland and graduated with a BA in education. Upon graduation in July 1970, he was imprisoned because of his political activism and was released the next year in November. He was a member of the Basotho Congress Party.
In 1976, he attained his MA from the University of Wisconsin in the United States and then completed a BA honours program via distance education from the University of South Africa. In 1982, he graduated from Simon Fraser University in Canada with a Master of Education degree.
In 1993, Mosisili was elected to parliament from the Qacha's Nek Constituency and became Minister of Education. On April 14, 1994, he was briefly kidnapped along with three other ministers by soldiers; a fifth minister, Deputy Prime Minister Selometsi Baholo, was killed in this incident. Mosisili was appointed Deputy Prime Minister in late January 1995, while remaining Minister of Education; on July 20, 1995, he was named Minister of Home Affairs and Local Government instead, while remaining Deputy Prime Minister. A new ruling party, the LCD, was formed in 1997 under the leadership of Prime Minister Ntsu Mokhehle as a split from the Basutoland Congress Party. On February 21, 1998, Mosisili was elected leader of the LCD after Mokhehle chose to step down due to poor health.
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