Lesotho curfew to be modified

2007-06-19 15:26

Cape Town - The Lesotho government will relax the restrictions of the curfew it had imposed after a spate of attacks on cabinet ministers, Prime Minister Phakalitha Mosisili said on Tuesday.

Briefing the media in Cape Town after meeting President Thabo Mbeki at Tuynhuys, Mosisili said the curfew, which has imposed by the government on Saturday, will now be modified.

"This morning I was briefed that the police commissioner was of the view that the curfew should be modified from 18:00-06:00 to 20:00-05:00," he said.

He said the curfew was imposed after some cabinet ministers' homes were attacked.

"The commissioner felt that it was necessary to impose the curfew to contain these kinds of crime," he said.

Mosisili conceded that the attacks could be linked to political tensions in the country following disputes over the allocation of parliamentary seats.

"There was unhappiness about the way proportional representation seats were allocated," he said.

- SAPA