She is currently providing strategic and academic leadership, with a focus on strengthening research, enhancing programme quality, and fostering institutional partnerships. In addition to her academic responsibilities, she has undertaken commissioned research and provided professional consultancy services to the Government of Lesotho and various international organisations.

Professor Thetsane’s research interests lie in strategic and general management, marketing management, entrepreneurship and innovation management, higher education management, and human capital development. Her work places particular emphasis on the strategic and operational dynamics of emerging and regulated industries, including the medicinal cannabis sector. She has published extensively in accredited, peer-reviewed journals, contributed chapters to scholarly books, and authored policy papers for the United Nations. She has also supervised and mentored postgraduate students, contributing to academic capacity development in the region.

Beyond her scholarly work, Professor Thetsane is actively engaged in academic and professional service. She is a member of the Southern African Institute of Management Scientists (SAIMS) and serves as the Lesotho Regional Nominator for the PhD Hub at North-West University Business School, where she mentors doctoral candidates. She has presented her research at national and international conferences, served as a reviewer for academic journals, and contributed to programme evaluations for the Council on Higher Education (CHE) in Lesotho.

VICE-CHANCELLOR’S WELCOME MESSAGE

I welcome all visitors to this website, and may I share with you a few remarks about the National University of Lesotho. Our university is old and yet new; we are small yet big; we are national, yet international; and we are conservative yet dynamic. Let me explain.

Having been established since 1945, we are one of the oldest universities in Africa, with a credible record of huge alumni who have made enviable waves both in the South African sub-region, and the world over in all fields of human endeavor. Yet, we are new because our programmes have been fitted for the attraction of contemporary youths and the need to get them ready for entrepreneurship and great exploits in national and global labour markets.

We are small because our population is cohesive enough to exist as a small family where the interests and welfare of all staff, students, visitors and other stakeholders are sufficiently catered for. We, as a full comprehensive and conventional institution, are big on account of the diverse provisions that we make to enable each stakeholder in the university enterprise to become whatever he or she wants to become in life.

We are a nationally funded institution, a national symbol, a legacy to the African Region. We have become international as expected of universally inclined institutions on account of the functional global relationships we have cultivated over time, our international staff and students, international ratings and the global effect our alumni have made in all areas of human undertakings.

We are conservative because we operate in a policy-driven environment where your rights are guaranteed and your views count typical of the milieu of freedom that characterised the first generation universities as institutions often appropriately referred to as ivory towers. However, we are dynamic as we take the future into focus in the variety and quality of services we render for the benefits of diverse members of society.

If you are visiting this site as a prospective student or staff, you are making the right choice.

If you are already a staff member or registered student, you are in the right place.

If you are a potential collaborator or partner or alumni of the NUL visiting this site, you are here at the right time, because we are reaching out to you very soon, if we have not already done so.

Enjoy the rest of your visit to the NUL website, explore and be positively influenced, as you become a worthy member of our ever-growing family. You are welcome at this platform where you will discover the uniqueness of the national university in the scenic mountain kingdom of Lesotho.

NUL was home for His Majesty, King Letsie III, as well as Queen Masenate of the Kingdom of Lesotho as students; home for the legendary Desmond Tutu as faculty member; home for the late Tito Mboweni, a prominent politician in South Africa, home to the current Vice-Chancellor of Africa’s largest university, the University of South Africa, among other dedicated global academic and professional giants in industry, the diplomatic corps and government. This, certainly, is the place to be.

Rea leboha. 

Vice-Chancellor