THE KINGDOM OF LESOTHO COMBINED SECOND TO EIGHTH PERIODIC REPORT UNDER THE AFRICAN CHARTER ON HUMAN AND PEOPLES’ RIGHTS AND INITIAL REPORT UNDER THE PROTOCOL TO THE AFRICAN CHARTER ON THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN IN AFRICA 483. To fulfil the requirements of the mandate, Lesotho Housing increases the supply of shelter and help meet the housing requirements of Lesotho as determined by Government and the local authorities by: a. Implementing on a self-financing basis a broad array of schemes including self-help housing, sites and services, land development, and cooperative housing. b. Assisting private parties to develop land and deliver housing. c. Engaging in the development and management of rental housing schemes where it is deemed to be in the economic interest of the Corporation to manage the property. d. Assisting in the mobilization of capital available to the shelter sector by emphasizing in its activities efficiency and cost recovery programmes to ensure a good return on investment and e. developing a long term capital programme that will assure the Corporation's continuing financial viability and ability to remain a vital participant in Lesotho`s shelter sector. Challenges 484. Section 18(4) of the Constitution of Lesotho allows for discrimination based on customary law. As a result many women have been expelled from their marital and /or maiden homes and left with no housing on the basis of customary law principles on marriage and inheritance. For instance, in the case of Ramatlapeng v Jessie, the Court of Appeal of Lesotho upheld a decision of the High Court that a woman who has returned to her maiden home to seek solace from her husband’s ill-treatment without divorcing her husband, ‘ngala’ does not have a right to live in her maiden home indefinitely. 76 76 Ramatlapeng v Jessie (C of A (CIV) 15 of 2016) [2016] LSCA 39 (28 October 2016) paras 18 and 19. 170