The old parliament building was constructed in 1909 for the Basutoland National Council (BNC), a forerunner of Lesotho’s contemporary Parliament. This hexagonal shaped building housed the 100 member BNC which had been established in 1903 as a replacement to the national pitso [1]. One of the major achivements of the BNC in this building was the codification and passing of Sotho customary law which became known as the ‘Laws of Lerotholi’ in reference to the then Paramount Chie