Sefapano Se Sefubelu

(The Red Cross)

R39.00

ISMN
979-0-804003-12-3;979-0-804003-13-0
Catalogue No
JPM 107
Notation
Dual notation (staff & tonic solfa), Staff notation
Scoring
choir SATB
Edition
Joshua Pulumo Mohapeloa Critical Edition
Category

Mohapeloa completed ‘Sefapano Se Sefubelu’ (The Red Cross) in 1974, publishing it in Cape Town in 1976 as song No. 10 of 25 in Meluluetsa ea Ntšetso-pele le Bosechaba Lesotho (Anthems for the Development of the Lesotho Nation). Mohapeloa’s original title included the English ‘Red Cross’ in brackets after ;Sefapano se Sefubelu;, a translation retained here with ‘The’ added. Like many other songs in Meluluetsa the composer celebrates an institution that was established in Lesotho after independence in 1966. It may have had a special significance for Basotho as an organisation founded in Switzerland, since the first missionaries in 19th-century Basutoland had been French-Swiss, but it was certainly an international organisation that it was highly beneficial for Lesotho to join.