South Africa - Situationer From Mountain Kingdom

(29 Aug 1994) Thousands of mineworkers in the Orange Free State (OFS) staged a march in solidarity with the ousted Lesotho government of Prime Minister Ntsu Mokhehle on Sunday (28/8). SHOWS: WELKOM, SOUTH AFRICA 28/8 crowd of marchers gathered in the city centre gvs of protesters singing during the march protesters wearing caps of basotho congress party (BCP) convoy led by traffic officials cu of marchers feet street filled with marchers carrying flags of their mines and union empty capitol building crowd gathered on the capitol lawn seated crowd with posters reading "down with lesotho royal family" eng sot lesotho BCP official working in the welkom mines thomas qele: "we are going to hand over a memorandum to the premier of OFS where we are saying within 24 hrs the memo should e sent to the majesty king in lesotho, whereby we are saying within five days from today he (king letsie) should have reversed the desicion he took and give way to the government of the people." gvs of protesters seated and singing 2.13 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...