Ostrich farming is not uncommon in South Africa but still unknown in Lesotho, we believe. Lesotho's production of cereal grains over the last thirty years has shown a continuing decline, when the year to year variations caused by cycles of drought is ignored. On a per capita basis, due to increasing population, the decline is even greater. Mosquitoes are just beginning to appear in Maseru this spring. But fortunately, Lesotho is outside the malaria belt because of its elevation and subtropical location.
Few buildings have screens on windows and doorways, and our apartment house in no exception.
We will soon begin heating a tiny wafer on a small electric heater in our apartment to emit an odor offensive to mosquitoes but not to us. One wafer will last the night to keep those little buzzers away. Seventy to ninety percent of all cancers are environmentally and lifestyle induced. Tobacco is a major crop in Zimbabwe and other African countries and tobacco companies from America, Europe and Australia heavily market their products throughout southern Africa. A cigarette ad precedes every English news report on Radio Lesotho, three times daily.