Ntlholohetsane

Mohapeloa completed ‘Ntlholohetsane’ in 1974, publishing it in Cape Town in 1976 as song No. 11 of 25 in Meluluetsa ea Ntšetso-pele le Bosechaba Lesotho (Anthems for the Development of the Lesotho Nation). His original title had the English ‘Radio Lesotho’ in brackets after it, retained here as the translated title. The Lesotho National Broadcasting Service, as it is officially called, began radio broadcasting in Sesotho and English in 1964, two years before the country’s independence, and the song gives a good idea of what was achieved in the first ten years.