Murder in the Kingdom in the Sky
The Story
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4 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The Prime Minister of Lesotho has resigned amid accusations that he was involved in the murder of his estranged wife. His third wife is also set to stand trial over her alleged involvement in the murder plot. We dive into the politics of the small African kingdom of Lesotho.
Guests:
Witness, anonymous.
Lebohang Totanyana, former Minister of Mining in Lesotho.
Barnaby Mitchell, BBC camera operator.
Host: Manveen Rana.
Archive:
SABC News, Al Jazeera, DW News, KTN News Kenya. Special thanks to the BBC.
Additional music by Chris Zabriskie.
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| 0:00.0 | We also wanted to talk to really about an English businessman who has very close links with Lesotho, Aaron Banks. |
| 0:08.0 | Do you remember when you first met, what first introduced to? |
| 0:10.0 | Yeah, it's one of those chance meetings just happen between people at some gathering and then somebody |
| 0:17.4 | comes, you chat. |
| 0:19.7 | It's the summer of 2018 and I'm interviewing Tom Tabani, the Prime Minister of Lesothu, a tiny mountain |
| 0:27.8 | kingdom surrounded on all sides by South Africa but somehow a world apart. |
| 0:34.0 | Some common ideas come, common interests, common outlook on what is good, what is not good. I'm in Lesothou to investigate Aaron Banks, one of the biggest political donors in |
| 0:47.5 | Britain who has links in the country including with a Prime Minister. |
| 0:51.9 | He's a good human being. |
| 0:53.6 | And he has a knowledge of economics. |
| 0:56.1 | And he has the right connections in the right places. |
| 1:00.3 | What sort of collections? |
| 1:02.3 | Well, knowing people who matter. |
| 1:04.0 | Did he help you personally too? |
| 1:06.0 | He did. |
| 1:07.0 | What sort of help did he give? |
| 1:08.0 | Well, I think we needed to buy food. |
| 1:11.0 | Seriously, and to buy some soap to wash. Some of that exchange |
| 1:16.7 | is still part of an ongoing investigation into corruption, an accusation which |
| 1:21.4 | Aaron Banks denies. |
| 1:23.0 | He was all like amicable and he was very friendly about it. |
| 1:27.0 | I was reporting for the BBC at the time and I was in Lissutu with my |
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