VICE PRESIDENT Phelekezela Mphoko and his delegation received a rapturous welcome from thousands of Basuthu who were gathered at Sesotho Stadium for the inauguration of newly-elected Prime Minister Dr Pakalitha Mosisili yesterday. Vice President Mphoko, who was the first to arrive at the packed stadium, which was a sea of red and yellow colours, received thunderous applause as his motorcade drove into the stadium.
The colourful occasion, which saw supporters of Prime Minister Mosisili's Democratic Congress and outgoing Prime Minister Thomas Thabane's All Basotho Convention trying to outdo each other in cheering their leaders on, witnessed Dr Mosilili taking the oath of allegiance and office before the country's Chief Justice Nthomeng Majara.
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