Mafa Sejanamane

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Mafa Mosothoane Sejanamane (born December 19, 1951 in Leribe , Basutoland ) is a Lesothic political scientist and ambassador .

Life

Sejanamane received a Bachelor of Law from the National University of Lesotho (NUL) in 1977 . He obtained a Master of Arts degree in Political Science from the Tanzanian University of Dar es Salaam before earning his PhD in the same subject from Dalhousie University, Canada in 1987 .

In the late 1980s, Sejanamane was Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political and Administrative Studies at the NUL. Until 2011 he was Executive Director of the South African political economy series (SAPES) trust in Harare and, among other things, headed the SAPES conference Post-Apartheid South Africa and its neighbors in 1990 about the time after the predicted end of apartheid . In 1993 he was appointed one of the few local professors ( associate professor ) at the NUL . From 2005 to 2006 he was appointed acting Vice Chancellor of the NUL for the first time . He later became a professor at the South African University of Venda . In 2011 he returned to the NUL, where he was elected Pro-Vice Chancellor . From September 2013 to November 2014 he served again as acting vice chancellor of the NUL before he was replaced by Nqosa Mahao .

Sejanamane publishes on his blog lesothoanalysis.com . He repeatedly criticized the government under Bethuel Pakalitha Mosisili in office from 2015 to 2017 , in particular its refusal to implement the demands of the final report of the Phumaphi Commission of the SADC , especially to remove the commander of the Lesotho Defense Force , Kennedy Tlali Kamoli . He is considered to be related to the All Basotho Convention party.

In June 2018 he became Lesotho's ambassador to the African Union in Addis Ababa .

He is married to Lerato Matautona, with whom he has three children.

Assassination attempt on Sejanamane

In April 2016, violent replies to Sejanamane's criticism of the government were published. On May 6, 2016, an attack was carried out on Sejanaman’s home in Masianokeng, south of Maseru . Several shots were fired at his bedroom during a power outage across Lesotho. He and his family were not injured.

The Secretary General of the African Union , Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma , expressed “deep concern” about the “collapse of law and order” in Lesotho in connection with the attack.

Works

  • as editor, with Sehoai Santho: Southern Africa after Apartheid. Prospects for the inner periphery in the 1990s. Southern Africa Political Economy Series Trust, Harare 1990, ISBN 0-7974-0996-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e entry at prabook.org (English), accessed on May 10, 2016
  2. ↑ Keiso Mohloboli: Mahao lands top NUL post. Sundayexpress.co.ls of August 25, 2014 (English), accessed on September 13, 2018
  3. ↑ Professor Mafa M. Sejanamane lestimes.com of October 15, 2015 (English), accessed on May 10, 2016
  4. ↑ Report at au.int from June 8, 2018 (English), accessed on November 11, 2018
  5. ↑ Fako Johnson Likoti: Sejanamane's paralysis of analysis. lestimes.com from April 1, 2016 (English), accessed May 10, 2016
  6. ↑ Khomo-ea-Mollo Mafokotsane: Sejanamane's analysis still paralyzed. lestimes.com of April 22, 2016 (English), accessed May 10, 2016
  7. ^ Lesotho: university professor survives attack by unknown assailants. ( Memento from May 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) enstarafrica.com from May 7, 2016 (English)
  8. ↑ Lesotho: AU Alarmed At Developments in Lesotho. The Patriot , Botswana, from allafrica.com on May 19, 2016 (English), accessed on May 29, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Sejanamane, Mafa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sejanamane, Mafa Mosothoane (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lesothic political scientist and ambassador
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Leribe , Basutoland