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GV Horsemen on their way to the ceremony.
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SV Horsemen towards.
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BV Horsemen.
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SV Crowds around Bereng car.
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LV Crowds around Bereng.
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SV Police hold the crowd back.
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GV Sir John Maud arrives by car.
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GV Arriving at the dais.
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SV Chief Justice arrives.
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SV Sir John Maud meets Bereng's mother.
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CU Bereng.
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S Chief Tsiame Mat???.
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CU Bereng has a drink.
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Bereng and mother with Sir John and Lady Maud.
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SV PAN Sir John and Lady Maud with the Chief Justice
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CU Sir John Maud.
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SV Bereng arrives at the platform.
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BACK V Maud greets Bereng.
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LV Crowd.
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CU Bereng.
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Back V Bereng waves to the crowd.
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CU Bereng speaks.
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SV Police and crowds.
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GV Council Chamber.
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SV Troops line up.
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SV Sir John maud and Bereng enter the building.
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GV PAN In the council chamber.
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SV Bereng seated.
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TRACKING SHOT Bereng rises as Sir John enters.
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GV Sir John addresses the Council.
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CU Ditto.
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TRACK AWAY SHOT Sir John Maud.
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SV Council members applaud.
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SV Bereng seated.
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Background: After a long struggle for power with former Regent Mantsebo, 22-year-old Prince Constantine Bereng Seeiso was installed as Paramount Chief of Basutoland at Maseru, Mar 12. From all over the small High Commission Territory - situated within the Union of South Africa - Basuto tribesmen arrived on horseback for the ceremony.

Shouting to be heard above the noise of the 70,000-strong crowd, British High Commissioner Sir John Maud was forced to cut his address short. The new Paramount Chief told his people that he hoped the example of his predecessors would help him to climb the ladder to true leadership of the nation.

Mother of the new ruler, Chieftainess Mabereng, watched the ceremony with representatives of the Swazi and Bechuana chiefs. For the past 20 years the country has been ruled by a Regent, Chieftainess Mantsebo. Although she was expected to attend the installation she stayed away.

Later the Paramount Chief and the High Commissioner opened Basutoland's new National Council which has legislative powers over all affairs other than Defence and Internal Security. This is the first step towards self-government in Basutoland.

In an address to the Council, Chief Bereng thanked the British Government for the confidence it had shown in the Basuto people by granting the new constitution.

Before he laid his claim to the throne of Basutoland, Chief Bereng was a student at Corpus Christi College, Oxford.