Lesotho’s failed multi-million rand high-altitude sports centre
GroundUp | 29.01.2026 10:30
High in the mountains, Lesotho’s most ambitious sports infrastructure project has never come into full operation. The Rapokolana High Altitude Sports Training Centre, built in 2005 at a cost of about M55-million (M1 equals R1), was intended to be a regional hub for elite athlete training. But decades later, it is vandalised, stripped of assets, and largely abandoned.
