Phooko wades into police salary demands
Staff Reporter THE former Minister of Public Service, Motloheloa Phooko, has said the Lesotho Mounted Police were given a six percent salary increase budgeted for by the Minister of Finance to cater...
View ArticleCBL acts on rogue money lenders
Lekhetho Ntsukunyane and Mamello Mokaeane THE Central Bank of Lesotho (CBL) has embarked on nationwide investigations aimed at weeding out illegal financial institutions and money lenders, the MNN...
View ArticleLRA extends managers’ suspension
Pascalinah Kabi THE Lesotho Revenue Authority (LRA) has indefinitely extended the suspension of its five senior managers upon realising that the initial six week suspension will not suffice to complete...
View ArticleGovt scoffs at LCD demands
Nthatuoa Koeshe and Pascalinah Kabi THE government has accused the self-exiled opposition Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) leader, Mothetjoa Metsing, of seeking to hold the government to ransom by...
View ArticleWhy SADC appointed another facilitator
Keiso Mohloboli SOUTH African President, Cyril Ramaphosa, had to appoint a “high profile personality” to assist him in his role as the Southern African Development Community’s (SADC) facilitator to...
View ArticleCorruption and fraud rocks LEC
Keiso Mohloboli THE Lesotho Electricity Company (LEC) has, for close to a decade, been a haven for rampant frauds and corruption which have not only hindered effective service delivery but cost...
View ArticleSADC issues ultimatum on reforms
…regional body frustrated by Lesotho’s failure to implement reforms Pascalinah Kabi LESOTHO faces a race against time to implement the constitutional and security sector reforms that were recommended...
View ArticleMoleleki calls for tolerance
Pascalinah Kabi ALLIANCE of Democrats (AD) leader, Monyane Moleleki, has called for political tolerance, saying the current politics of hate, strife and name-calling have no place in the new...
View ArticleLegal reforms loom
…as Lesotho bites the bullet on key populations Moses Magadza LESOTHO will soon begin a process of reviewing and reforming laws and policies as part of bold steps to ensure greater access to Sexual and...
View ArticleGovt leaves door open for Truth Commission
Keiso Mohloboli THE government has left the door open for the establishment of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) which is one of the key demands set out by the opposition for its continued...
View ArticleWorkers plead for PM’s address
’Marafaele Mohloboli THE secretary general of the Alliance of Progressive Trade Unions (APTU), Tšeliso Ramochela, this week demanded that Prime Minister Thomas Thabane should address the workers as...
View ArticleMosisili blasts coalition govt
’Marafaele Mohloboli THE leader of the opposition Democratic Congress (DC), Pakalitha Mosisili has launched a scathing attack on Prime Minister Thomas Thabane’s government for allegedly violating the...
View ArticleThabane warns of “dark cloud” of lawlessness
Pascalinah Kabi PRIME Minister Thomas Thabane has spoken of a “dark cloud hanging over the country” due to rampant lawlessness, lack of accountability and abuse of national resources especially by...
View ArticleLesotho could lose out on lucrative marijuana industry
Herbert Moyo LESOTHO faces the prospect of being overtaken and left behind in the multi-billion dollar medical marijuana industry after Zimbabwe recently moved to legalise the growing of the medicinal...
View ArticleExternal auditor for LEC
Keiso Mohloboli THE Lesotho Electricity Company (LEC) has appointed an international forensic audit consultancy to further examine the affairs of the company after an internal audit report pointed to...
View ArticleTreason arrests expected soon
Keiso Mohloboli THE government says that investigations into the attempted coup of 2014 against the first government of Prime Minister Thomas Thabane are almost complete and arrests will soon be made....
View ArticleGovt warns of army revolt
… accuses opposition leaders and former security chiefs of plotting mayhem. Keiso Mohloboli THE government has accused top security officers, who fled the country, of plotting with exiled opposition...
View ArticleLawyers’ Court of Appeal case postponed
Tefo Tefo A CASE in which three top lawyers are challenging the appointment of the High Court judge, Justice ‘Maseshophe Hlajoane, as the Acting President of the Court of Appeal was yesterday,...
View ArticlePhori blasts BKB over ‘disrespectful’ comments
Mohalenyane Phakela THE Minister of Small Business, Cooperatives and Marketing, Chalane Phori, has accused South African wool and mohair auctioneers, BKB of disrespecting him and making ill-advised...
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Motšomotšo and Mahao murder probes complete
Keiso Mohloboli THE police have completed investigations into some of the high profile criminal cases, including the assassinations of former army commanders, Lieutenant Generals Khoantle Motšomotšo...
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