Centre for Accounting Studies scooped the Standard Lesotho Bank National Youth Dialogue Competition, and placed 1st position out of 6 tertiary institutions which participated. Team CAS walked away with a total amount of M40 000.00, plus M8 000.00 for each of the participants as well as 40GB to be loaded to participants’ accounts, for a duration of 3 months.

The event was held on Wednesday, 18th November 2023 at Manthabiseng Convention Centre, under the topic: How can Lesotho Transition from being an import dependent economy to a self-sufficient one?

This award-winning idea was birthed by a team of 4 brilliant minds, with Temansele Lineo Zwane and Nthatisi Majoro being the engines behind its moulding, and Mpeoane Joy Mahase and @Ronald Wiseman Kekane further being presenters who excellently sold the team’s vision of Lesotho establishing a State-of-art Diamond Innovation and Technology Park. The idea provided a picture of how the country can benefit from extracting its diamonds and processing them before exporting to international markets. Currently, the country exports raw/unprocessed diamonds to international markets, only to import them back at a higher cost post processing. Indeed, this was considered a million-dollar idea. The team brought it home!

Thanks to the CAS Team that coached the presenters to be the best that they were. Congratulations to the CAS Community!

You can catch the entire day proceedings here: https://fb.watch/nLN3DU-m5o/