By Nicholas Kotch –
PRESIDENT Jacob Zuma will spend Tuesday in Lesotho battling to prevent the political peace deal he brokered last week from unravelling.
Prime Minister Tom Thabane and his rivals in the quarrelsome kingdom are threatening to tear up the compromise they reached in Pretoria on September 1 with Mr Zuma and the Southern African Development Community (Sadc).
Mr Thabane said on Monday in Maseru that a de facto mutiny by Gen Tlali Kamoli, who had seized army weapons, made it impossible to reopen parliament, even though that was a fundamental part of the deal. “The situation in the country is not stable — how do we reopen parliament under these conditions?
