Multi-million maloti payout for Basotho miners
’Marafaele Mohloboli About eighty eight former Basotho mine-workers are set to receive compensation worth M8.6 million from Q(h)ubeka Trust of South Africa for health complications suffered while...
View ArticleGovt mulls establishing Land Authority
Tokelo Rasephei THE Ministry of Local Government and Chieftainship is set to establish the Lesotho Association of Land Authority (LALA) with the help of Botswana Association of Land Authority (BALA)...
View ArticleFamily pleads for justice
Tsitsi Matope IT has been two years since the vicious killing of five-year-old Reitumetse Nthunya. The child was allegedly stabbed by her family’s tenant in October 2015. Although the suspected killer,...
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Mahaos request Special Commonwealth Tribunal
Herbert Moyo and Tsitsi Matope THE family of slain former army commander, Lt-Gen Maaparankoe Mahao, has written to the government, urging it to appoint a “special tribunal” of international judges...
View ArticleGovt in frantic efforts to engage SA
…as thousands face arrests, deportations over special permits ’Marafaele Mohloboli The Lesotho government is making frantic efforts to engage South Africa to try and avert a potential crisis in which...
View ArticleJudgment reserved in Mokhothu case
Tefo Tefo A PANEL of three High Court judges on Monday reserved judgment in the case in which the deputy leader of the Democratic Congress (DC), Mathibeli Mokhothu, is fighting to remain the official...
View ArticleLRA regulations rile car dealers
Mohalenyane Phakela CAR importers and clearing agencies are up in arms with the Lesotho Revenue Authority (LRA) over a new clearing system at ports of entry which they say has not only increased...
View Article‘Trump did not attack Lesotho’
’Marafaele Mohloboli COMMUNICATIONS Minister and government spokesperson, Joang Molapo, says the recent vulgar remarks by United States President, Donald Trump, in which he made reference to “shithole...
View Article‘Security guaranteed at LCS facilities’
Tsitsi Matope THE Lesotho Correctional Service (LCS) Acting Commissioner, Thabang Mothepu said security remains tight at the maximum facilities, emphasising that he was confident that the various...
View ArticleWool and mohair company files court challenge
Mohalenyane Phakela WOOL and Mohair broker, BKB, yesterday filed an application in the High Court for the re-opening of its Standard Lesotho Bank account, which was frozen last week by the Maseru...
View ArticleLatest police promotions challenged
Tefo Tefo THE Lesotho Police Staff Association (LEPOSA) yesterday filed an urgent application challenging the promotions of six police officers with the police body accusing the police authorities of...
View ArticleParly drama as opposition walk out on bill
’Marafaele Mohloboli and Bereng Mpaki THE government yesterday presented the National Reforms Commission Bill 2018 that is aimed at establishing a commission to spearhead national dialogue towards the...
View ArticleSADC warns Basotho on political instability: SADC
Pascalinah Kabi SOUTHERN African Development Community (SADC) Oversight Committee Chairperson, Matias Bertino Matondo, has warned Basotho on the perils of chronic instability, saying there is need to...
View ArticleKhasu refutes Thabane claims
’Marafaele Mohloboli FORMER deputy leader of the All Basotho Convention (ABC) and current leader of the True Reconciliation Unity (TRU), Tlali Khasu, has described as “irrational,” claims by Prime...
View ArticleThabane breathes fire
…threatens cabinet reshuffle to weed out corrupt ministers …lambasts PSs for drunkenness ’Marafaele Mohloboli PRIME Minister Thomas Thabane says he has no option but to reshuffle his cabinet to get rid...
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Murder Most Foul!
Tefo Tefo THE community of Ntširele in Khubetsoana is grieving after one of its prominent members was brutally murdered by her live-in partner. The deceased’s her four month old grand-daughter was...
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A sickening justice system
THERE is something deeply sickening about the administration of the criminal justice system in Lesotho. Just consider this scenario as reported elsewhere in this newspaper Murder Most Foul! One...
View ArticleSocialist Revolution Party gets IEC nod
’Marafaele Mohloboli THE Socialist Revolution Party (SRP) also known by its Sesotho name, Kanana ea Basotho, will tomorrow receive its certificate of registration from the Independent Electoral...
View ArticleGovt steps up TB fight
Limpho Sello THE Ministry of Health has come up with aggressive strategies to address the scourge of tuberculosis including outreach programmes to screen the population and introduce direct observed...
View ArticleSupt Lebitsa’s pic LCS acts on HIV in prisons
Tsitsi Matope THE Lesotho Correctional Service (LCS) has begun distributing condoms in male prisons throughout the country as part of efforts to stem the tide of HIV infections that are said to be on...
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