December 2016

Are you an African woman who is about to give up on your hair? Take comfort as Hape Marite, the untiring National University of Lesotho (NUL) BA Marketing graduate has found a solution for you! She has spent sleepless nights on research and experimentation to provide a 100% organic solution to your hair problems! Her company is dubbed Black Hair Pty Ltd.

Hape’s fascination with business was years in the making. “I started getting into business when I was 13,” she said. Decades later, she is ever determined to transform the African Hair product landscape with her ingenuity.

They have a dream— and they have an ideal. It is neither Martin Luther King’s “dream” nor is it Nelson Mandela’s ideal which he hoped “to live for and to achieve.”

Invited by the sons and daughters of the soil, the National University of Lesotho (NUL) visionaries are coalescing with a number of native entrepreneurs and the ‘Mamathe community to pursue an unusual dream of the Organic City in the ‘Mamathe.

This system by the National University of Lesotho (NUL) graduate, Molefi Makuebu (NUL Computer Systems and Networks), which is one of the winning projects of this year’s Vodacom Hackathon, will assist in detecting potholes for speedy corrective action by relevant authorities. 

Journal of Applied Physics, Volume 119, Issue 1, 2016

M. J. Madito1, A. Bello1, J. K. Dangbegnon1, C. J. Oliphant2, W. A. Jordaan2, D. Y. Momodu1, T. M. Masikhwa1, F. Barzegar1, M. Fabiane1,3, and N. Manyala1, a)

1Department of Physics, Institute of Applied Materials, SARCHI Chair in Carbon Technology and Materials, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0028, South Africa
2National Metrology Institute of South Africa, Private Bag X34, Lynwood Ridge, Pretoria 0040, South Africa
3Department of Physics, National University of Lesotho, P.O. Roma 180, Lesotho

If you think you know anything about Lesotho, find this app and you will realize you don’t! The National University of Lesotho (NUL) graduates, teamed up with UCT graduates to make an app that will help you find essential services and important places in Lesotho, which you didn’t even know they existed—right up to your doorstep! 

Suppose you find yourself or your loved one in a dangerous situation and you need urgent help from the police or an ambulance. Life is in danger and every minute counts! The question is do you know the numbers to call? 

Stakes were high as NUL Graduates shared the secrets of soap-making with members of the public. The workshop was graced by Honorable Minister of Small Business Development, Cooperatives and Marketing, Honorable Selibe Mochoboroane who encouraged the young soap enthusiasts to keep the course.

For more information on the upcoming workshop, which will be held on the 17th of December 2016, this coming Saturday,

Contact +266 58539177 or +266 58588647

Springer International Publishing Switzerland, State Fragility and State Building in Africa, Volume 10 of the series United Nations University Series on Regionalism pp 209-232

Oscar Gakuo Mwangi, Department of Political and Administrative Studies, National University of Lesotho, Roma, Lesotho

Abstract

These National University of Lesotho (NUL) Industrial Chemistry Students surprised many as they showcased amazing products under a theme: Source Local, Keep it Simple. 

They made shoe polish, nail polish remover, bath salts, lip balm, candies and energy drink. 

Every product had to be simple to make, innovative, use locally available materials up to packging and be exceedingly good. They passed the test.

African Journal of Business and Economic Research, Volume 11, Issue 2-3, pg 103 - 125, 2016

Thimothy M. Thamae, Retselisitsoe I. Thamae and Leboli Z. Thamae, National University of Lesotho

Abstract

The National University of Lesotho (NUL) students, graduates and their friends take waste and make marvels out of it! They use discarded wood, old tires, even old cassettes to make new and awesome products.

Any living soul cannot help but marvel at the fabulous chairs from waste tires, a stove from car wheel rims, furniture from old abandoned wood, and a wallet from an old cassette.