Lesotho Highlands Development Authority

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Map of the Lesotho Highland Water Project

The Lesotho Highlands Development Authority (LHDA) is an authority of the Kingdom of Lesotho . She is responsible for the Lesotho part of the Lesotho Highland Water Project , which supplies areas in South Africa with water and Lesotho with electricity.

structure

In order to operate the LHWP, the bilateral Lesotho Highlands Water Commission (LHWC) was established, to which three representatives each from Lesotho and South Africa belong. It controls the activities of the LHDA in Lesotho and the Trans- Caledon Tunnel Authority in South Africa and is subordinate to the governments of the two countries, represented in Lesotho by the Ministry of Energy, Meteorology and Water Affairs . The organization is based in the capital Maseru in the centrally located Tower Building on Kingsway .

The objectives are: to deliver water to South Africa, generate electricity for Lesotho, mitigate the negative impact on the community and the environment, maximize the development of spin-offs of the project in Lesotho and implement phase II of the LHWP.

The LHWC appoints a supervisory board, which in turn selects the chief executive ( e.g. chairman of the board). The other management level of the LHDA consists of the executive members and the area managers ( branch managers ). LHDA's chief executive is Refiloe Tlali (as of 2017).

history

The LHWP was contractually sealed in 1986 between Lesotho and the apartheid government of the time . The bodies that exist today were contractually defined at the time.

In April 2017, the son of the Lesotho Prime Minister Bethuel Pakalitha Mosisili , Rethabile Mosisili, was appointed chief delegate of the LHWC. Shortly before, his father had lost a vote of no confidence , but was still in office. In July 2017, Mosisili Jr. discontinued.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Aims of the LHDA at lhda.org.ls (English), accessed on August 15, 2017
  2. ↑ Governance at lhda.org.ls (English), accessed on August 15, 2017
  3. ↑ LHWP phase II design commences this month. infrastructurene.ws of July 11, 2017 (English), accessed on August 15, 2017
  4. ↑ Mosisili's son fired from water body. Lesotho Times, July 28, 2017, accessed August 15, 2017