Africa-Press – Lesotho. Practitioners in journalism have a troubling routine of finding themselves in dangerous situations, so it wasn’t particularly surprising when on Tuesday reporters on assignment at Kao and Liqhobong found themselves trapped beyond the Kao and Kaonyana Rivers with bridges flooded.
Public Eye
trainee reporters Sekhonyana Theko and ‘Makeresemese Letuka are among two separate groups of media practitioners marooned by the flooded rivers while on assignment to cover corporate social responsibility events hosted by Liqhobong Mine, at Liqhobong, and Storm Mountain Diamonds at the Kao Mine.
Theko reports from Kao that the event to donate food parcels to the Kao residents has been called off because some of the invited dignitaries, that include the Principal Chief, could not make it to the event because of flooded bridges.
“We got here by chance, we pushed to cross the bridge to arrive at the venue though it was already visibly flooding, we learned later that all those who came after us failed to cross,” Theko said. He indicated all those who had already arrived at Kao will be forced to a sleepover.
Meanwhile, in the Liqhobong event, Letuka reported they were also camped at the banks of the Kao at the time of this report; the event she attended had, however, managed to proceed despite the rain.
She was optimistic with water levels at the bridge going down they might be able to proceed to Maseru even though “the road is dangerously slippery. ”
The Public Eye reporters are part of two teams of journalists from the national broadcaster, Lesotho National Broadcasting Service, independent radio stations, and newspaper that had traversed the Maluti and braved heavy downpours to cover the events.
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