This report is the final stage of a process that has taken the Lesotho Institute of Public Administration and Management (LIPAM) research team to many parts of the country. In the process numerous people and organisations gave their time and resources to help the team to complete its work.
LIPAM Management would like to express its gratitude to the following people and organisations that contributed to making this study a success:
The former Minister of Home Affairs (the Hon Thomas Motsoahae Thabane) for his support, the Directorate of the Lesotho Mounted Police Service, the Commissioner of the Lesotho Mounted Police Service and her staff for technical and logistical support, district secretaries, principal chiefs, the Director of Public Prosecutions, prosecutors, chief magistrates, magistrates, stockowners, chiefs, headmen, the research field workers who helped collect and enter the data, donors for their financial support, the Institute for Security Studies (ISS), Keith Muloongo, Noria Mashumba, Duxita Mistry and Jemima Njeri Kariri for technical support, Academic Planning Research and Consultancy Division staff for writing the report, Dr John Dzimba, Rets’elisitse Nko, and ‘Matsolo Matooane for quality-controlling the report, many Basotho who assisted the field workers with accommodation, and Messieurs Chipoyera and Nyanguru for helping the team with data analysis. A special word of thanks to Miss ‘Matsolo Matooane for the dedication and commitment she has demonstrated in managing the project. Thanks also to Michael O’Donovan who drew the maps for the sampling process for this monograph.
We are also thankful to all those who helped this research project in one way or another, but whose names or organisations have not been mentioned.
We thank you all.