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Hlotse (also Leribe) is an important market town in Lesotho. It is situated on the Hlotse River , near the South African border. The town was founded in 1876 by a British missionary, Reverend John Widdicombe . It was a colonial center until Lesotho gained its independence.
The alternate name, Leribe, comes from the adjacent French Catholic Leribe Mission, founded in 1859 by François Coillard .
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