Matlama overtake LDF
Mikia Kalati A SOLITARY goal by striker Motebang Sera handed Matlama all three points against LDF in an Econet Premier League match played at Ratjomose Barracks on Sunday. The match was one of two of...
View ArticleQuthing faces serious education challenges
Mamohlakola Letuka QUTHING – ‘MAHLAELE Khabo sits in her living room, shoulders slouched and worry written all over her face. It has been a typically long day at Sebapala Primary School in Quthing, a...
View ArticleLNFOD present reforms demands
Limpho Sello THE Lesotho National Federation of Organisations of the Disabled (LNFOD) has demanded the inclusion of organisations for the disabled among the list of participants to be consulted on the...
View ArticleSchool heads owed M52 million
Nthatuoa Koeshe THE Ministry of Education and Training is battling to mobilise M54 million to pay gratuities it owes to 172 school principals that it engaged under the controversial Performance...
View ArticleLCD lists its conditions
’Marafaele Mohloboli THE Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) has called for the establishment of a government of national unity and the release of detained former army Commander, Tlali Kamoli, as part...
View Article‘I was compromise choice for ABC deputy leader’ – Maliehe
Keiso Mohloboli THE newly-appointed deputy leader of the All Basotho Convention (ABC), Maliehe Prince Maliehe, says he was a compromise choice for the position to prevent potential instability in the...
View ArticleLaw Society shoots down lawyers’ demands
Tefo Tefo THE Law Society of Lesotho has turned down a request by four prominent lawyers for it to take legal action against the Minister of Law and Constitutional Affairs, Lebohang Hlaele, for...
View ArticleExiled soldiers return to active duty
Keiso Mohloboli THE government is re-hiring most of the soldiers who fled the country at the height of the turmoil in the Kingdom during the year 2015 and others who were detained over trumped up...
View ArticleMothae on course for full scale production
Herbert Moyo LUCAPA Diamond Company says it is on course to begin full scale diamond mining at its Mothae Mine in Mokhotlong in the second half of the year, amid indications that the company secured...
View ArticleMinister clashes with PS
…Minister seeks PM Thabane’s intervention …PS accused of leaking confidential cabinet memo Pascalinah Kabi HEALTH Minister Nyapane Kaya has sought the intervention of Prime Minister, Thomas Thabane, to...
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Of murderers, incompetent police officers and the LCD
Accept my belated Happy New Year greetings to all Basotho. I wish this nation a successful 2018 and a restoration of political sanity into our blighted (if not God forsaken Kingdom). I have enjoyed a...
View ArticleRetired colonel grilled over murders
’Marafaele Mohloboli POLICE this week arrested and grilled Retired Lieutenant Colonel, Thato Phaila, over his possible involvement in a series of crimes that were committed by members of the Lesotho...
View ArticleWomen lawyers table reforms demands
’Marafaele Mohloboli WOMEN lawyers have called for the inclusion of female representatives in the proposed National Reforms Commission as well as the establishment of a tribunal to settle disputes that...
View ArticleI never imagined myself a soldier: Letsoela
Keiso Mohloboli BORN on 3 August, 1967 in Bela–Bela in the Berea district, army commander, Lieutenant General Mojalefa Letsoela, never imagined himself being a soldier- let alone being in charge of the...
View ArticleLawyers seek to prevent Chief Justice’s ouster
Tefo Tefo THREE prominent lawyers, King’s Counsel Zwelakhe Mda, Karabo Mohau and Attorney Qhalehang Letsika, on Tuesday lodged an urgent application before the Constitutional Court to block the...
View ArticleEditor’s shooting: soldiers remanded yet again
Tefo Tefo MAGISTRATE ‘Mamorojele Qoo yesterday ordered five army officers facing an attempted murder charge stemming from the 2016 near-fatal shooting of the Lesotho Times editor, Lloyd Mutungamiri, to...
View ArticleRural Electrification intensifies
Tokelo Rasephei TEN villages consisting of 598 households from the Matsieng No. 45 Constituency will soon be connected to electricity as soon as the Lesehe Construction and Highlands Electrical...
View ArticleLRA to reduce M500 million deficit – Khasipe
Tsitsi Matope THE Lesotho Revenue Authority (LRA) is expecting to miss its revenue targets for the second year running by about M500 million. But LRA Commissioner-General, Thabo Khasipe, says the...
View ArticleMining activities may impede Polihali Dam construction
Pascalinah Kabi THE long-awaited construction of the Polihali Dam which is scheduled to begin next year faces new hurdles after the Ministry of Mining controversially awarded licences to three mining...
View ArticleNew Army Chief Speaks
…deplores the LDF’s past role in causing instability …vows to submit army to civilian authority Keiso Mohloboli NEWLY-APPOINTED army commander, Lieutenant General Mojalefa Exavery Letsoela, has...
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