If you want to learn about a country, try getting naked with the locals in a sauna. That wasn’t the plan when I sat myself down on the hot wooden bench behind a large woman wearing nothing but a shower cap. But we got chatting, as naked people do, when she asked why I was in Lesotho. She is a lecturer in accountancy in one of the tiny kingdom’s two universities, and soon we were discussing the #FeesMustFall campaign in SA. "I don’t understand South Africans; they want everything for free," she tutted. Lesotho’s youngsters get free education up to tertiary level, but pay back the cost when they get a job after graduation. Now rampant unemployment is making that difficult, and many of her accountancy students graduate with no hope of finding work. We threw even more water on the coals and sat in quiet contemplation. The next day, six of us women squeezed into the rather small sauna at the Avani Lesotho Hotel & Casino, and one told interesting tales about her job with the tax departmen...
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