Handing Over Thaba-Tseka Rural Development Centre
PRESS STATEMENT (continued)
Maseru - 04 July 2003
Other services such as educational facility at Thaba-Tseka (RDC), were also built by the Project to provide skills to the people affected by the implementation of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project so that they could make a living in the new environment in which they were living as opposed to subsistence farming which had been their way of life before the Project’s implementation.
The scaling down of the LHWP operations, has called for LHDA to embark on a strategy of handing over the assets to the Government of Lesotho. Thaba-Tseka RDC is one such asset being handed over to the Ministry of Education and Training. “It is our hope” Mrs. Tlali said, “that the assets will be jealously guarded so that at no given time will they deteriorate.”
Speaking at the same occasion, the Deputy Principal Secretary for Natural Resources, Mr. Khomoatsana Tau said that when RSA and Lesotho signed the Agreement on the Lesotho Highlands Water Project in 1986, both countries were ostensibly looking at how the two countries would maximise benefits out of the Project.
For South Africa it would be cost effective to arrest the water of the Orange River System in the Highlands of Lesotho as opposed to when they would construct dams within their borders. For Lesotho benefits included generation of electricity, and the infrastructure such as roads, clinics, telecommunications to mention but a few.
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