Emergent Africa (1968)

Lesotho (formerly Basutoland), South Africa. C/U of an African man in bowler hat and suit reading a newspaper, the Lesotho Times; C/U of a statue of the first Lesotho King, Mshoeshoe. We see a frontier of Lesotho as a lorry drives through; C/U of the Lesotho flag flying. Several shots of the mountainous countryside as a Land Rover drives along. Various shots in a village; goats are herded from a pen; two Basuto men put cattle dung plaster on the outside walls of their mud huts; a family sit around the fire outside their hut; cattle are herded over rocky countryside. Pathe cameraman Martin Rolfe (?), walks to an eroded rock in the countryside and crumbles a chunk in his hand. Several farming shots; a team of oxen pull a plough; a man on a tractor pulled by cattle. At an Agricultural Training School the men are instructed on tractor mechanics and thatching. Women are seen spinning outside a mud hut and weaving with coloured mohair yarns. A man pours some oil into the engine of a small plane at Le