ABSTRACT
Lesotho covers an area of 30,000 km2 and is dominated by a mountainous landscape; it has a population of about 1.5 million people. Lesotho is entirely surrounded by the Republic of South Africa (see Figure 11.1) and is heavily dependent on South Africa, in part due to extensive migration of mine workers. The reliance on mine wages has made agriculture relatively unimportant in terms of GNP; agriculture's total share of GNP was only 10 per cent in 1984 (2.5 per cent when only crops were counted), and the trend is declining (Bureau of Statistics, 1987).
