CHILD LABOUR

Significant levels of child labour in Africa appears to be found in Lesotho, the Lesotho labour force survey found that 4.6% of males who were working full time, 14% of males who were working part-time and 1.3% of male job seekers in Lesotho were aged between 10 and 15 years, many of these would have been involved in herding and those with part-time work were


(Necessarily earning an income) but may well have been working of family land in subsistence agriculture (i.e. they were economically active but not earning an income) boys are most likely to be engaged in paid work, usually herding, girls who are paid are primarily engaged in domestic work, it is likely that both boys and girls are engaged in seasonal agricultural work across the border in South Africa, and Lesotho is in the process of formulating an Action Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (APEC) with assistance of the International Labour Organisation (ILO)