Top cop flees
Senior Superintendent Khoabane Mpepe Lekhetho Ntsukunyane LESOTHO Mounted Police Service (LMPS) Senior Superintendent Khoabane Mpepe has skipped the country claiming his life is in danger after being...
View ArticleTRC takes concerns to AU body
Bereng Mpaki THE Transformation Resource Centre (TRC) has called on the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights to urge the government to investigate and prosecute all cases of human rights...
View ArticleIgnorance far from bliss
Lack of knowledge and fear compound cancer threat Pascalinah Kabi FOR ‘Makhethang Tsolo, pain has become an unbearable but unavoidable fact of life that even painkillers cannot soothe. Ms Tsolo was...
View ArticleMinistry launches HIV Impact assessment
Limpho Sello THE Ministry of Health will today launch an HIV impact assessment programme dubbed Lesotho Population Based HIV Impact Assessment (LePHIA) at Maseru Pitso Ground. Her Majesty Queen...
View ArticleAppeal court seals cleric’s fate
FORMER Minister (Pastor) of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa Reverend Daniel Rantle Lekhetho Ntsukunyane THE Court of Appeal has sealed the fate of former Methodist Church of Southern Africa...
View ArticleTop cop faces sedition charges
Senior Superintendent Khoabane Mpepe ’Marafaele Mohloboli EXILED Lesotho Mounted Police Service (LMPS) Senior Superintendent Khoabane Mpepe faces sedition charges for allegedly conspiring to topple...
View ArticleLetšeng Diamonds CEO quits
Lets’eng Diamonds CEO Mazvi Maharasoa Lekhetho Ntsukunyane LETŠENG Diamonds Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Mazvi Maharasoa, has resigned from the post she has held since November 2009, the Lesotho...
View ArticleMinistry speaks out over tender ruling
Ministry speaks out over tender ruling Pascalinah Kabi THE Ministry of Police and Public Safety yesterday dismissed claims that it had “lost a corruption case” to Smally Trading Company. The...
View ArticleDC youths hit out at LCD
DC Youth Leagues’ President Thuso Litjobo Billy Ntaote THE Democratic Congress Youth League (DCYL) has launched a withering attack on the Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD), escalating a feud that...
View ArticleLesotho hailed in HIV fight
Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield Billy Ntaote A SENIOR United States envoy has commended Lesotho’s efforts to combat the HIV/AIDS pandemic through its adoption of a “Test and Treat” strategy aimed...
View ArticleLesotho faces AGOA boot
Billy Ntaote THE United States government says the “writing is on the wall” for Lesotho’s eligibility for the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) facility and a second compact grant under the...
View ArticleLSP extended to 31 December
SA Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba SOUTH African Home Affairs authorities have extended the grace period for Lesotho nationals living and working in South Africa illegally to apply for the...
View ArticleGovt mulls social media crackdown
Bereng Mpaki THE Lesotho Communications Authority (LCA) this week sent letters to the country’s two telecommunications operators requesting them to justify the continued provision of Facebook and...
View ArticleOrphanage appeals for assistance
Pascalinah Kabi AN orphanage run by the Roman Catholic Mission (RCM) is appealing for food donations and other forms of assistance to cater for its 68 food insecure orphans and vulnerable children...
View ArticleMosisili takes fight to Moleleki
. . . slams DC deputy leader’s call for unity among political parties Billy Ntaote PRIME Minister Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili has reiterated his stance that congress and nationalist parties are...
View ArticlePolice sued for M1 million
Tefo Tefo THE High Court on Tuesday watched a video tape which appeared to show the dramatic attack on a Koala-Bata resident’s house, who was wrongly accused by villagers of murdering a person in the...
View ArticleMahaos ‘cautiously welcome’ Kamoli exit
Lehloenya Mahao Billy Ntaote THE family of slain army commander, Maaparankoe Mahao has cautiously welcomed the impending exit of Lesotho Defence Force (LDF) commander Lieutenant-General Tlali Kamoli,...
View ArticleGovt speaks out on Kamoli exit
PM’s Spokesperson Motumi Ralejoe . . . as Americans commend ‘positive step’ Billy Ntaote THE removal of Lieutenant-General Tlali Kamoli from the helm of the Lesotho Defence Force (LDF) is in line with...
View ArticleFactory, taxi unions demand PM’s ouster
Billy Ntaote AN alliance of factory workers unions and taxi operators has lent its support to calls for Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili to resign for “failing to protect jobs” under the African...
View ArticleMosisili must go – DC youths
DC Youth Leagues’ President Thuso Litjobo . . . as coalition youths join outcry over AGOA ’Marafaele Mohloboli THE youth leagues of two parties in the governing coalition, including Prime Minister...
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