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Archbishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu was the second bishop of Lesotho in the 19 seventies. In 2013, he donated the bulk of funding to build a bishop's residence in Maseru, even though he only stayed in the country for two years because he was wanted like a cake in

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South Africa. So he, he had to go, I mean, I'm sure he also felt very bored in Lesotho because he, he was not as active as he was in South Africa. When Lesotho needed to come, political intolerance with a voice of reason before the 2012 elections.

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U NDP called on Archbishop Tutu and the result was the first coalition government in the history of the country. So the ARB came and uh kind of gave in his usual uh you know, uh character, a lecture, a tongue lashing lecture to all the political parties

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because we had already had a, a death of Mahala who was the secretary general of the ABC. And at that time, it was rumored that uh he was about to defect into the newly formed Democratic Congress then, but that bishop to to save the day for

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us. And uh we never experienced any other day of uh and the 2012 elections were conducted uh in a peaceful manner as is the case in South Africa for the mountain kingdom. The health of Archbishop Tutu is an issue of interest NGAI S ABC news, Maseru

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Lesotho.