I grew up in Rhodesia ( Now Zimbabwe). It never snows there, and quite honestly I never knew it snowed anywhere in Africa except for the top of Mount Kilimanjaro and Mount Kenya. When I first saw photos of snow in Leshoto I was astonished. Since living in Johannesburg from 1991 I have experienced two heavy snow falls here in Johannesburg! Almost every year I see snow on top of the Drakensberg mountains, mostly it is not very thick on the ground. This experience in Leshoto in Aug 2015 was the first time I have hiked in snow.