A sea of black and yellow, dominant colours of Mafeteng – defined the landscape of the town as many people who attended the 45th King’s birthday on Thursday.

More than 40,000 people from all walks of life parked the town's Pitso ground to enjoy an array of different entertainment repertoire offered while His Majesty the King sat close to his guest of honour Prince Harry to take it all in.

Prince Harry, Britain’s third in line to the throne took time off from his construction project of a school for the disabled in Botha-Bothe to attend the ceremony.

Several dignitaries of traditional, government, church and other formations of society stood in a big ring measuring the size of two soccer pitches to see various dances, choral and music entertainments as they took the centre stage to entertain the country’s head of state and symbol of Basotho unity, His Majesty King Letsie III.

People in the Mafeteng district only, had divided themselves into four celebration clubs namely, Makaota glad in black and yellow colours, Lits’ukulu in green and blue colours, Lilala and Mabeoana in blue and black.

Colours which are national known to represent Makaota date back to the days when settlements formed in districts adopted a distinct persona named after its warriors such as Mohale’s Hoek (majantja) Leribe (linare) Botha-Bothe (likila) Quthing (liphakoe) Maseru (matlama), Teyateyaneng (lioli) Qachas Nek (melele ) Mokhotlong (liphamola).

Mafeteng is 80 kilometers south of the capital, Maseru and it has a population of approximately 36000.

Source: LENA 17/07/2008