Thaba-Tseka is a

constituency An electoral (congressional, legislative, etc.) district, sometimes called a constituency, riding, or ward, is a geographical portion of a political unit, such as a country, state or province, city, or administrative region, created to provi ...

and the capital city or camptown of the

Thaba-Tseka District Thaba-Tseka is a Districts of Lesotho, district of Lesotho. Thaba-Tseka is also the name of the district's capital or Camptown (Lesotho), camptown, which is the only town in the district. In the east, Thaba-Tseka borders on the KwaZulu-Natal Provin ...

in eastern

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 ...

. It has a population of 15,248 (2016 census). Thaba-Tseka was also the subject of the case studies in

James Ferguson James Ferguson may refer to: Entertainment * Jim Ferguson (born 1948), American jazz and classical guitarist * Jim Ferguson, American guitarist, past member of Lotion (band), Lotion * Jim Ferguson, American movie critic, Board of Directors member ...

's book ''

The Anti-Politics Machine ''The Anti-Politics Machine: Development, Depoliticization, and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho'' is a book by James Ferguson (anthropologist), James Ferguson, originally published in 1990 by Cambridge University Press. The 1994 edition is availab ...

'', which identified the failures of outside-initiated development projects. Famous people include Maaparankoe Mahao, a former military general for the Leosotho Army

Infrastructure

In Thaba-Tseka, there are shopping facilities, a

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, a

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, various institutions of relief organizations, and a

hospital A hospital is a healthcare institution providing patient treatment with specialized Medical Science, health science and auxiliary healthcare staff and medical equipment. The best-known type of hospital is the general hospital, which typically ...

Climate

References

External links

* Populated places in Thaba-Tseka District Thaba-Tseka District {{Lesotho-geo-stub