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
DEFINITIONS
Bohali: Payment, traditionally in the form of cattle, and lately either in cattle, other animals or
cash made by the groom’s family to the bride’s family when there has been an agreement
for marriage of the couple
Basotho: People of Lesotho, singular Mosotho
Malapa ha a jane: A customary law principle used in polygamous marriages in terms of which
each household keeps its own property and such cannot be inherited by the other family
or families
Pitso: public gathering
Mala marriage:
Plural: Lipitso
A customary law marriage equivalent to surrogacy
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