Incumbents

*Head of state:

King King is a royal title given to a male monarch. A king is an Absolute monarchy, absolute monarch if he holds unrestricted Government, governmental power or exercises full sovereignty over a nation. Conversely, he is a Constitutional monarchy, ...

Letsie III Letsie III (born Mohato Bereng Seeiso; 17 July 1963) is King of Lesotho. He succeeded his father, Bereng Seeiso Moshoeshoe II, who was forced into exile in 1990. His father was briefly restored in 1995 but died in a car crash in early 1996, so L ...

(since February 7, 1996)CIA World Factbook: Lesotho
retrieved 18 Apr 2020 *Head of government:

Prime Minister A prime minister or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. A prime minister is not the head of state, but r ...

Tom Thabane Thomas Motsoahae Thabane (born 28 May 1939) is a Mosotho politician who was the fifth Prime Minister of Lesotho from 2012 to 2015 and from 2017 to 2020. He founded the All Basotho Convention (ABC) in 2006 and led the party until 2022. Thabane ...

(June 16, 2017 to 20 May 2020), Moeketsi Majoro (since 20 May 2020).

Events

*February 6 – Lesotho's First Lady,

Maesiah Thabane Maesaiah or Maesiah Thabane (born 16 April 1977) is the wife of the former prime minister of Lesotho Tom Thabane since her marriage to Thabane on 27 August 2017. On 10 January 2020, police issued an arrest warrant for Maesiah Thabane in connecti ...

is arrested for murdering her predecessor,

Lipolelo Thabane Lipolelo Thabane (1959 – June 14, 2017) was a Mosotho political figure and wife of prime minister Tom Thabane. She was murdered on June 14, 2017, two days before her husband's inauguration. Biography Lipolelo Thabane was born in Basutoland to ...

in 2017. *February 20 – Former prime minister

Thomas Thabane Thomas Motsoahae Thabane (born 28 May 1939) is a Mosotho politician who was the fifth Prime Minister of Lesotho from 2012 to 2015 and from 2017 to 2020. He founded the All Basotho Convention (ABC) in 2006 and led the party until 2022. Thabane ...

, 80, of Lesotho is to be charged with his wife's 2017 murder. *March 11 –

Moshoeshoe Day Moshoeshoe I () ( – 11 March 1870) was the first king of Lesotho. He was the first son of Mokhachane, a minor Tribal chief, chief of the Bamokoteli lineage, a branch of the Koena tribe, Koena (crocodile) clan. In his youth, he helped his fat ...

, Lesotho *April 18 – Prime Minister Thomas Thabane deploys the army to the streets of Lesotho to restore order. *April 30 – COVID-19 pandemic: Lesotho is the only African country that has not reported the virus. *May 8 – Lesotho Prime Minister Thomas Thabane will step down in July as the country's leader. *May 13 – COVID-19 pandemic: Lesotho report its first case of the virus, becoming the last country in Africa to do so. *May 20 - Moeketsi Majoro replaces

Prime Minister of Lesotho This is a list of prime ministers of Lesotho () since the formation of the post of Prime Minister of Lesotho in 1965, to the present day. A total of seven people have served as Prime Minister of Lesotho (not counting one Acting Prime Minister a ...

Births

Deaths

References

{{Years in Lesotho 2020s in Lesotho Years of the 21st century in Lesotho

Lesotho Lesotho, formally the Kingdom of Lesotho and formerly known as Basutoland, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Entirely surrounded by South Africa, it is the largest of only three sovereign enclave and exclave, enclaves in the world, t ...