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The following are important points I have experienced about what a true friend is:

1.A real true friend is one who is able to listen to you, the one you are able to pour out your inner secrets of your heart to without minding your vocabulary.

2. Someone you remember when you are blessed and all goes well with you, and does she or he. In the same manner, one you run to when things have gotten rough.

3. Someone who rejoices with you in your merry season.

4. Someone who knows you so much that when you talk once she or he decodes the message quickly and can disect deeper into a thought or emotion that comes with your one sentence.

5. Someone who has recognised your uniqueness and supports with much respect who you are. She or he knows your potentials

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For centuries men have fought wars upon wars in pursuit of power. That intrigues intense eagerness to examine interrelation between development and power as a qualification for the belief that development is the source of power. A not so far fetched example is of the so called develped counties and developing ones- which has power over the other? Take a typical African rural family where a child with more or of high intellect has a stringer say above every family member despite age.

Where power is concerned all natural and fundamental relations between all parties involved are overlooked because through development all historic strings and cords are cut and nullified. Katherine Marshall and Lucy Keough in 'Finding Global Balance" define development........

There is a life concept that most Basotho find alien to live with yet it is one of thte tools for survival when one wants to succeed in their profesional field. And that is networking and mentorship.
The core of this post is to look at mentorship in Lesotho as viewed by a Mosotho. First of all a mentor(s) is an individual or a group's advisory board. In our only university in Lesotho, most students are ignorant of having mentors in their student lives let alone understanding the whole concept of mentorship and all it entails.

Development is the source of power. For example, the so called developed countries have power and dominion over the developing countries. What then is development? When women, men and children around the world are empowered through thorough fulfillment of needs and wants, when they live peaceably without any lack and limit- they are developed.