South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa, the Southern African Development Community's official facilitator of Lesotho's reforms, visited that country last week. He persuaded the political parties to sign an agreement establishing a statutory National Legislative Reform Authority to coordinate national reforms.
He welcomed the signing as a 'historic milestone that firmly set Lesotho on the road to reform' - that is, the major constitutional, security, political and other reforms long demanded by SADC. Nothing in Ramaphosa's statement suggested he was conscious of the chaos raging all around him in the politics of this tiny but chronically troubled country - and which seems to make reform unlikely.
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