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LHDA awards M97 million Polihali Operations Centre contract
Bereng Mpaki THE Lesotho Highlands Development Authority (LHDA) has awarded a M97 million tender for the construction of the Polihali Operations Centre to the L&M Joint Venture. The joint venture...
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Basotho should be worried about Matekane’s party: Thotanyana
LESOTHO Times (LT) deputy editor, Silence Charumbira, recently sat down with newly elected Basotho Action Party (BAP) secretary-general (SG), Lebohang Thotanyana to discuss his party’s prospects in...
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Hungwe throws out Kamoli’s recusal application
Moorosi Tsiane JUDGE Charles Hungwe has thrown out former army commander, Tlali Kamoli’s application for his recusal from presiding over the latter’s attempted murder trial. The trial is in connection...
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Motinyane steps up fight with “biased” Sakoane
. . . slams judge’s insistence on proceeding with treason trial without ‘chief actor’ Metsing Mohalenyane Phakela DIRECTOR of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Hlalefang Motinyane, has upped the ante in her...
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Moramotse takes the stand in son’s murder trial
but insists he is not aware of son’s involvement in the crime Moorosi Tsiane LOCAL Government and Chieftainship Affairs Minister, Lehlohonolo Moramotse, has bizarrely claimed that he is not even aware...
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Court of Appeal opens for first 2022 session
Bereng Mpaki THE first session of the Court of Appeal got underway this week and is expected to end on 21 April 2022. Led by its president, Justice Kananelo Mosito, the court will hear 28 cases with...
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Sakoane chides police and prosecution failures in achieving justice
. . . the chief justice’s comments come after shoddy work in the Nthane murder trial. Moorosi Tsiane CHIEF Justice Sakoane Sakoane has blamed “inefficient and unprofessional” police officers and...
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I made Matekane a millionaire: Moleleki
fire spitting AD leader says his party is not for sale even to millionaires like Matekane, tears into “cowards” like Phamotse who dumped him for Matekane. ’Marafaele Mohloboli ALLIANCE of Democrats...
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Mokhothu slams Matekane
Bongiwe Zihlangu . . . says tycoon not telling truth about why he entered politics DEMOCRATIC Congress (DC) leader, Mathibeli Mokhothu, has slammed business tycoon Sam Matekane saying the latter was...
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Mokhothu blasts “incompetent” police
accuses them of being “bought” by Matekane’s uniform donations, says a DC govt will reform LMPS to instil discipline and professionalism Bongiwe Zihlangu DEPUTY Prime Minister Mathibeli Mokhothu has...
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Shock as abused pupil hangs self
’Marafaele Mohloboli IN an incident that has left his parents and Sekamaneng residents in Berea in shock, a teenage learner hung himself after being subjected to a humiliating ordeal by his teachers....
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Police swoop on ex-LCA boss’ home
…after High Court authorises pre-dawn raid to recover LCA property Bongiwe Zihlangu POLICE and sheriffs of the High Court yesterday staged a pre-dawn raid on the Lithabaneng, Maseru, home of former...
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Majoro, Kabi factions in peace talks
…as both sides fear defeat if the ABC fights elections disunited ’Marafaele Mohloboli AFTER months of debilitating infighting, Prime Minister Moeketsi Majoro’s faction of the ruling All Basotho...
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US Embassy staff tours historic Thaba Bosiu
Staff Reporter UNITED States (US) Ambassador to Lesotho, Maria E Brewer, on Friday led embassy staff on a climb up the historic Thaba Bosiu mountain. The Embassy coordinated the outing with the...
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ESwatini NGOs draw lessons from lessons from Lesotho
Nthabiseng Libate/Tokelo Khausela CIVIL society organisations (CSOs) in ESwatini were recently in the country to draw lessons from Lesotho as they continue their fight for a constitutional monarchy....
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Shoddy Nthane trial and acquittal exposes flawed judiciary: analysts
Moorosi Tsiane PROMINENT businessman Tšeliso Nthane’s trial and acquittal on murder charges is a story that has got tongues wagging since it happened over two weeks ago. There have always been...
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US govt report flags police brutality, killings of civilians
Silence Charumbira THE 2021 Country Report on Human Rights Practices released yesterday by the United States (US) State Department paints a picture of entrenched police brutality and arbitrary killings...
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Mahao confident of victory as BAP celebrates 1st anniversary
says more than 100 000 have joined, says a BAP govt will lift Lesotho form its dependence on other countries Marafaele Mohloboli MORE than 100 000 people have joined the Basotho Action Party (BAP)...
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Cop guns down wife in suspected crime of passion
…cold-bloodied killing speaks to worrying escalation of murders by uniformed forces ’Marafaele Mohloboli IT never rains but pours for vulnerable and defenceless Basotho women who continue to be...
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Missing Qoaling man found dead
…his decomposed corpse discovered barely two weeks after his wife’s brutal murder ‘Marafaele Mohloboli A QOALING man, who went missing a few days before the cold-bloodied 2 April 2022 murder of his...
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