Legislators flex muscles against PM
Unanimously approve motion to curtail PM’s powers to dissolve parly In first step towards ousting Thabane Ntsebeng Motsoeli IN a rare show of unity, legislators across the political divide joined...
View ArticleMolapo, Machesetsa face off in BNP polls
Pascalinah Kabi/Nat Molomo THE Basotho National Party (BNP) says its national executive committee (NEC) elections will go ahead this weekend despite a fresh High Court bid by disgruntled members to...
View ArticleVillagers’ health in danger from dumpsite
Limpho Sello VILLAGERS living near the Ha-Tšosane dumpsite fear they could have contracted respiratory and other infections after the dumpsite recently caught fire which lasted more than a week. The...
View ArticleM65 million govt debt cripples LEC
Bereng Mpaki THE Lesotho Electricity Company (LEC) is owed an estimated M65 million in unpaid bills by different government ministries for the current financial year. The organisation says this has...
View ArticleVictory for Mahase
Mohalenyane Phakela ACTING Chief Justice, ‘Maseforo Mahase, yesterday won her Constitutional Court bid for the recusal of all local judges from presiding over All Basotho Convention (ABC) secretary...
View ArticleGovt has gone to the dogs: Mahao
Ntsebeng Motsoeli ‘ACTING’ All Basotho Convention (ABC) leader, Professor Nqosa Mahao, says the government under Prime Minister Thomas Thabane “is going to the dogs” and only the passing of...
View ArticleMetsing blames Thabane for Mahao’s assassination
’Marafaele Mohloboli LESOTHO Congress for Democracy (LCD) leader, Mothetjoa Metsing, has bizarrely blamed the murders of army commander Maaparankoe Mahao and Police Sub Inspector Mokheseng Ramahloko on...
View ArticleRepeal wool and mohair law, parly tells govt
Mohalenyane Phakela PARLIAMENT has found that the wool and mohair regulations of 2018 have impoverished thousands of Basotho and called on the government to immediately repeal the controversial...
View ArticleDPP attacks DCEO boss over fleet tender claims
Ntsebeng Motsoeli THE Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Hlalefang Motinyane, has rubbished allegations by the Directorate on Criminal and Economic Offences (DCEO) Director General, Mahlomola...
View ArticleNo confidence vote in limbo
as DC threatens to withdraw its support for Thabane’s ouster Pascalinah Kabi THE country’s biggest opposition party, the Democratic Congress (DC) has threatened to withdraw its support for the...
View ArticlePS implicates First Lady in dodgy M340 million tender
Pascalinah Kabi A PRINCIPAL Secretary has sensationally claimed that First Lady, ‘Maesaiah Thabane, directed that a lucrative M340 million Mpilo Boulevard tender be awarded to controversial Chinese...
View ArticlePreps on course for Zone 4.5 chess tourney
Moorosi Tsiane PREPARATIONS are on course for the country to host the 2019 Zone 4.5 under-16 Chess Championship from 22 to 30 November 2019 at Blue Mountain Inn in Teyateyaneng. The championship falls...
View ArticleLawyers’ no show riles judge
Mohalenyane Phakela The attempted murder trial of former army commander Lieutenant General Tlali Kamoli and his accomplices over the 27 January 2014 simultaneous bombings of the Moshoeshoe II homes of...
View ArticleBNP won’t recall Molapo from govt
Pascalinah Kabi TOURISM, Environment and Culture Minister Joang Molapo who recently lost the Basotho National Party (BNP)’s deputy leader’s post to former party spokesperson, Machesetsa Mofomobe, will...
View ArticleLCS accused of violating detained soldier’s rights
Mohalenyane Phakela A LAWYER representing murder-accused army officer, Major Pitso Ramoepana, has accused Lesotho Correctional Services (LCS) of violating his rights by denying him food and medical...
View ArticleMokhothu criticises govt’s debt culture
Ntsebeng Motsoeli DEMOCRATIC Congress (DC) leader, Mathibeli Mokhothu, has criticised the Thomas Thabane administration for worsening the country’s debt burden to fund vanity projects. Mr Mokhothu gave...
View ArticleBusinessmen charged over govt fleet tender
Mohalenyane Phakela THE Directorate of Corruption and Economic Offences (DCEO) yesterday charged businessmen, Teboho Tlokotsi and Tumo Ramonaheng, with corruption in the procurement of the government...
View ArticleMahao rejects ambassadorial post
Pascalinah Kabi EMBATTLED All Basotho Convention (ABC) leader and Prime Minister Thomas Thabane offered to deploy his estranged party deputy, Nqosa Mahao, as ambassador to Belgium as part of efforts to...
View ArticleMagistrates sue govt over “poor salaries and benefits”
say they have lost hope in govt ever resolving their decades-old plight Nat Molomo | Mohalenyane Phakela THE gloves are officially off after the country’s restive magistrates sued the government for...
View ArticleJudge Monapathi speaks
slams executive interference in judiciary demands abolishment of the PM’s powers to appoint judges says impeachments bids against Ramodibedi, Mosito and Majara all political Mohalenyane Phakela SENIOR...
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