‘It opened my eyes’: Lesotho ski resort goes off-piste to keep workers

The pandemic has hit tourism but retraining and a range of initiatives have enabled staff to stay and even hit the slopesMasiane Nthina made her way nervously from the kit room to the slopes. Shuffling with skis on her feet for the first time is not easy.Nthina, an intern at the Lesotho Tourism Development Corporation, lives close to Afriski Mountain Resort, but had never visited it. She had always viewed the resort as the preserve of the elite and thought that on her meagre wages she could not