Archibald Lesao Lehohla (born 28 July 1946)[1] is the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Home Affairs and Public Safety of Lesotho.
Lehohla was born on 28 July 1946 in Mafeteng. In 1970, Lehohla obtained a Bachelor of Science from the University of Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland (UBLS). In 1975, he received a scholarship from UNESCO to attend Oxford University for mathematics. While at Oxford, Lehohla graduated with a Bachelor and Master of Arts.[1]
While attending the UBLS, Lehohla was a teaching assistant from 1970 to 1972. Lehohla started teaching at Bereng High School in 1975 and was promoted to headmaster in 1977. Lehohla remained as headmaster until 1993.[2]
Lehohla was first elected to parliament from the Mafeteng Constituency in 1993 and became Minister of Home Affairs[1] in the new Basutoland Congress Party government. Subsequently he became Minister of Transport, Posts and Telecommunications in 1995.[1] In May 1996 he became Minister of Education.[3] He won a court ruling enabling him to stand in Mafeteng Constituency again in the 1998 election after his party, the Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD), had nominated another candidate,[4] and was re-elected.[1]
On 27 January 2002, Lehohla was elected as the leader for the Lesotho Congress for Democracy party.[5] This position as party leader led him to acquire the position of Deputy Prime Minister later in the 2002 Parliamentary Elections.[6] Lehohla was later removed from his position as Minister of Education and instead made Minister of Home Affairs and Public Safety in November 2004.[7]