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As shown in Chapter 2, the British Government throughout the nineteenth century colonial phase had no fixed plan for governing Lesotho. From Disannexation onward, the Territory was ruled experimentally, if not haphazardly. Always at the back of the High Commission as well as of the Colonial Office mind was the thought that in the final analysis it would have to be attached to one of Her Majesty’s European settler colonies in South Africa. Hence the prospect of granting it a Legislative Council, in keeping with the policy that obtained in the crown colony system was, on those grounds of uncertainty alone, out of the question. Meantime, however, in the face of the disintegration of the indigenous government, which in the long run might necessitate a costly expansion of the colonial administration, it was found desirable to create an alternative institution.
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South Africa. Further Correspondence Respecting the Colony and Adjacent Territories 1884–85, LVI (Cmd. 4263) pp. 81–5.
Basutoland Annual Report. ‘Further Correspondence Respecting the Affairs of Basutoland’. In (Continuation of Cmd. 4838, June 1886 ) p. 17.
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Machobane, L.B.B.J. (1990). The Establishment of the National Council, Its Constitutional Status and Challenges During the First Two Decades of Its Existence (1903–20). In: Government and Change in Lesotho, 1800–1966. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20906-4_3
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