This news from South Africa: President Nelson Mandela, has today urged Lesotho’s ruling party and opposition groups to make peace so that a South African-led intervention force could withdraw from the troubled kingdom. Mandela’s official Cape Town residence was where he spoke after a meeting with Lesotho’s King Letsie III. He said, “Our belief is that issues of this nature cannot be settled through military intervention. They need a political solution, and it’s only the Basotho people who can do that.” The Office of South African Deputy President Thabo Mbeki announced an agreement to resume peace talks on Friday in a statement released hours before Mandela met the king.