Honourable Archibald Lesao Lehohla

Personal
• Date of Birth: July 28, 1946
• Place of Birth: Mafeteng
• Marital Status: Married with two sons and a daughter

Current Positions
• Deputy Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Lesotho
• Minister of Home Affairs and Public safety
• Leader of the National Assembly
• Deputy Leader of the Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) Party
• Member of Parliament for Mafeteng Constituency No. 55 representing LCD

Academic Qualifications
• Primary education at Hermon Higher Primary School, Mafeteng district (1952-1959)
• Junior Certificate (JC) at Mafeteng Secondary School (1960-1963)
• Cambridge Overseas School Certificate (COSC) at Basutholand High School (1964-1965)
• Bachelor of Science Degree at University of Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland (UBLS) (1966-1970)
• Bachelor of Arts (Hons) Degree at Oxford University in the United Kingdom. In 1982, he enrolled for Master of Arts (MA) in the same university

Career/Positions/Membership/Other activities
• Elected Member of Parliament for the Mafeteng Constituency since 1993 to date
• Appointed Minister of Home Affairs (Local Government, Rural and urban Development)- (1993)
• Appointed Minister of Transport, Posts and Telecommunications (1995-1996)
• Appointed Minister of Education and Manpower development (1996-1998)
• Appointed Minister of Education and Training (2002-2004)
• Appointed Minister of Home Affairs and Public Safety since 2004 to date
• Teaching Assistant in the Mathematics Department at the UBLS (1971-1972)
• Assistant Teacher at Bereng High School (1975-1976) and Headmaster in the same school (1977-1993)
• Former chairman of the Mafeteng Tractor Owners’ Cooperative
• Chairman of the Scott Hospital Commission of inquiry (1990)
• Church Elder and Members of the Mafeteng Lesotho Evangelical Church (LEC) Consistory
• Member of LEC Law Review Commission and of LEC Educational Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Education
• Former member of the Lesotho Headmasters and Headmistresses Association
• He represented Lesotho at the Commonwealth Seminar on Educational Administration and Supervision held at the University of Nairobi (1977)
• He was awarded a UNESCO Fellowship to further mathematics studies at Oxford (1975)

Hobbies
• Gardening, singing and crop farming