Bantu gears for Sunday clash
Moorosi Tsiane BANTU is now in the final stages of its preparations for its CAF Champions League assignment against Zambia’s Nkana at Setsoto Stadium on Sunday. The return fixture will be played in...
View ArticleExecutive transport donates Covid-19 lab to govt
Limpho Sello THE government on Thursday received a Covid-19 testing laboratory from Lephema Executive Transport which is expected to bolster the country’s testing capacity by increasing options. The...
View ArticleDREAMS programme relaunched
Bereng Mpaki THE United States Ambassador to Lesotho, Rebecca Gonzales, last night led the relaunch of the DREAMS Lesotho programme. DREAMS is an acronym for the Determined, Resilient, Empowered,...
View ArticleInflated deals create debt trap for future generations: analysts
Herbert Moyo UNLESS Lesotho governments refrain from the habit of awarding grossly inflated tenders for various infrastructure projects, future generations will be caught up in a massive debt trap...
View ArticleBusinessman Xie in M27 million scandal
Pascalinah Kabi SMALL Business Development, Cooperatives and Marketing principal secretary, Tankiso Phapano, has accused controversial businessman, Yan Xie, of defrauding the government of M27 million...
View ArticleGovt accused of shielding Molibeli
Pascalinah Kabi THE Lesotho Mounted Police Service Staff Association (LEPOSA) has accused the Moeketsi Majoro-led administration of shielding Police Commissioner Holomo Molibeli, from accounting for...
View ArticleReforms deadline set
…as SADC reiterates that Metsing, Mochoboroane shouldn’t be prosecuted. Ntsebeng Motsoeli THE head of the SADC facilitation team, retired former South African Deputy Chief Justice, Dikgang Moseneke,...
View ArticleImprove reproductive health services for women, girls – Queen
Limpho Sello LEADERS and decision makers must create an enabling environment for the implementation of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) commitments to improve...
View ArticleTop lawyers spared jail
Bereng Mpaki THREE lawyers representing former army commander, Lieutenant General Tlali Kamoli’s co-accused soldiers in their high-profile trials, have been spared jail for contempt of court. The three...
View ArticleGovt lawyers for soldiers’ murder trial
Bereng Mpaki BOTSWANA Judge Onkemetse Tshosa has ordered High Court registrar, Advocate ‘Mathato Sekoai, to appoint pro deo lawyers to represent five murder-accused soldiers. Pro deo lawyers are...
View ArticleMajor logjam for high profile trials
govt, SADC and EU have their work cut out as Kamoli & co-accused’s lawyers withdraw services, demand foreign judges’ withdrawal until clients’ demands are addressed Pascalinah Kabi BARELY three...
View ArticleCracks emerge in the ABC-DC coalition
DC angered by moves to prosecute Metsing, Mochoboroane for treason, slams ABC for “persecuting” its political rivals. Pascalinah Kabi SIX months after its establishment, the Moeketsi Majoro-led...
View ArticleMajoro rejects LEPOSA demands
says won’t fire Molibeli Ntsebeng Motsoeli PRIME Minister Moeketsi Majoro has rejected the Lesotho Mounted Police Service Staff Association (LEPOSA)’s demands for the dismissal of Police Commissioner...
View ArticleLesotho makes positive strides towards controlling HIV
Ntsebeng Motsoeli LESOTHO has substantially progressed towards controlling the HIV epidemic, preliminary findings of the Lesotho Population-based HIV Impact Assessment (LePHIA 2020) survey show. The...
View ArticleSakoane reads riot act to lawyers
Mohalenyane Phakela | Pascalinah Kabi NEWLY-APPOINTED Chief Justice, Sakoane Sakoane, has warned former army commander, Tlali Kamoli and other detained soldiers’ lawyers against conduct likely to...
View ArticlePakistani national Qamar speaks out
claims to be good friends with DPM Mokhothu ’Marafaele Mohloboli A PAKISTANI national at the centre of allegations of masterminding a human trafficking ring has denied the allegations. Rana Qamar...
View ArticleHunger at prisons
Pascalinah Kabi LESOTHO’S prison inmates are currently reeling from an acute hunger crisis, Law and Justice principal secretary (PS), Lebeko Sello, has said. So dire is the situation, according to Mr...
View ArticleGovt deports foreign nationals
says move is part of efforts to combat human trafficking ’Marafaele Mohloboli GOVERNMENT this week deported three Pakistanis and a Bangladesh national in a move Home Affairs Minister Motlalentoa...
View ArticleVodacom, LCA in fresh court battle
Mohalenyane Phakela VODACOM Lesotho and the Lesotho Communications Authority (LCA) are locked in a fresh legal battle over the latter’s directive ordering the mobile communications giant to seek the...
View ArticleLNDC boss fights back
…sues govt, demands job back Pascalinah Kabi | Mohalenyane Phakela FORMER Lesotho National Development Corporation (LNDC) chief executive officer, Mohato Seleke, has wasted no time in demanding his job...
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