At the expense of local media, South African media were given access to events during the British Princess Anne's official visit to Lesotho in the week of July 16, 2003.

Against the backdrop of rampant hunger and famine in Lesotho, especially in the rural villages, youth volunteers have taken it upon themselves to help communities with projects aimed at curbing abject poverty and HIV/Aids. Youth volunteers from the Lesotho Work Camps Association have embarked on work camps to help people in the villages with irrigation schemes during dry seasons, water supply, construction of houses and roads as well as soil and water conservation.

Poor urban communities will from 1 July be without clean and safe drinking water, unless they reach to the bottom of their already dry purses to pay for the right to drink, cook and bathe from clean and safe water. The Water and Sewage Authority will hand over or close public standpipes to communities and implement new water charges starting July, disclosed WASA Chief Executive Officer, Sechoba Makhoalibe.

A German engineering company, Lahmeyer, was on Tuesday found guilty of bribing a top official of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project.