List of Speakers of the National Assembly of Lesotho
Table:
Name

Took office

Left office

Notes

Walter P. Stanford

1965

1970

First post-independent speaker[3][4][2]

In abeyance

1970

1973

[5]

John Teboho Kolane

1973

20 January 1986

Speaker of the Interim National Assembly[6][7]

Dissolved

20 January 1986

1990

[8]

John Teboho Kolane

1990

1992

Speaker of the National Constituent Assembly[6]

John Teboho Kolane

1993

1999

Died in office[6]

Ntlhoi Motsamai

1999

2012

First female speaker[9]

Sephiri Enoch Motanyane

6 June 2012

2015

[10][11]

Ntlhoi Motsamai

10 March 2015

12 June 2017

[12]

Sephiri Enoch Motanyane

12 June 2017

Incumbent

[13]

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