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Sunday, November 08, 2026

President of the Senate

Hon. Mamonaheng Mokitimi

President presides at any sitting of the Senate and in his/her absence the Vice President shall preside. Whenever the Senate resolves itself into a committee of the whole Senate the President or Vice President as the case may be, shall leave the Chair of the Senate and sit at the Clerk’s Table at the right of the Clerk and act as Chairperson of the committee. When the Senate resumes, the President or the Vice President shall return to the chair of the Senate

BIOGRAPHY

Honourable Mamonaheng MOKITIMI

The President of the Senate of the Kingdom of Lesotho

Honourable Mamonaheng Mokitimi is the first female President of the Senate of the Kingdom of Lesotho. She was also the first female elected in 2012, to the position of the Vice President of the Senate of the Kingdom of Lesotho where she served until 2015.She first joined the Parliament of Lesotho in 1999 as the Principal Interpreter and was later promoted to the position of Clerk Assistant until she resigned in 2012. As a Clerk Assistant, she was also an HIV/AIDS coordinator in the Senate.