National Assembly staffers grilled over losses
Pascalinah Kabi SENIOR National Assembly staffers including the Clerk, Fine Maema, have admitted to massive rot at the institution which has seen it lose more than M2 million paid out to different...
View ArticleGovt in the dark over SADC facilitator
’Marafaele Mohloboli THE government says it is in the dark as to when former South African Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke and his team will begin work after their appointment to the mediation...
View ArticleGovt confident of securing IMF support
Ntsebeng Motsoeli FINANCE minister Moeketsi Majoro is confident of securing a financial bailout from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and other development partners to reduce the budget deficit...
View ArticleTeachers go on strike
’Marafaele Mohloboli TEACHERS have resolved to go on a month-long nationwide strike with effect from 2 August this year to force the government to address their demands for salary increments and...
View ArticlePopular musician accused of raping toddler
Mohalenyane Phakela POPULAR Afro-pop musician, Lele Khesuoe, was this week arrested and hauled before the courts to face charges of raping a three year-old female toddler in Ha Foso, Berea on 30 June...
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Ministers audit King’s birthday bash
Pascalinah Kabi THREE senior ministers have resolved to institute an urgent audit of the His Majesty King Letsie III birthday celebrations amid suspicions that the event could have been used by some...
View ArticleFirst Lady in public brawl
Pascalinah Kabi THE First Lady, ‘Maesaiah Thabane, was caught up in a physical altercation with a Ha Tšolo (Maseru) woman at Maseru Private Hospital last weekend. The First Lady’s office has...
View ArticleCreditors granted MKM assets
Pascalinah Kabi HIGH Court judge, Justice Lebohang Molete, has ordered that the assets of the MKM Star Lion Group should be released into hands of the company’s creditors. This will enable the...
View ArticleChief Justice’s case postponed indefinitely
’Marafaele Mohloboli CHIEF Justice Nthomeng Majara’s court bid to stop Prime Minister Thabane from impeaching her over a plethora of misconduct allegations has been postponed indefinitely after the...
View ArticleFirst-year student killed at Fokothi
Nthatuoa Koeshe ANOTHER first-year student has died at the increasingly infamous Lerotholi Polytechnic orientation week. The 21-year-old Rethabile Mosito’s body was found at the institution’s football...
View ArticleMoleleki speaks on his cancer battle
Herbert Moyo A SOMBRE atmosphere briefly engulfed the state house this week when the Deputy Prime Minister Monyane Moleleki recounted his successful battle to overcome an aggressive form of tonsil...
View ArticleLEC in new tender storm
Mohalenyane Phakela THE Lesotho Electricity Company (LEC) has once again been caught up in a storm of fraud and corruption claims. This is amid revelations that the Directorate of Corruption and...
View ArticleGovt, civil servants on collision course over salaries
Ntsebeng Motsoeli GOVERNMENT and civil servants could be on a collision path after the government indicated that it would only be able to meet the civil servants’ demands for salary increments only “if...
View ArticleOpposition protests target First Lady
Limpho Sello OPPOSITION female politicians this week chose the Manthabiseng Convention Centre — the venue of the 12th Stop Cervical, Breast and Prostate Cancers in Africa Conference and Exhibition...
View ArticleBehave yourself or be fired, First Lady warned
Limpho Sello THE First Lady, ‘Maesaiah Thabane has been warned against engaging in any scandalous behaviour that could bring the Forum of the African First Ladies against Cervical, Breast and Prostate...
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Thabane speaks on relationship with UK tycoon Banks
Staff Reporter PRIME Minister Thomas Thabane has acknowledged receiving financial assistance from the controversial British businessman Arron Banks while he was in exile in South Africa. Dr Thabane...
View ArticleRoyal Palace project plunged into fresh crisis
…as architects abandon project citing non-payment and breakdown of trust with govt Pascalinah Kabi THE much-delayed project to construct a new royal palace in Maseru has been plunged into a fresh...
View ArticleBrace for fresh elections-Mosisili
’Marafaele Mohloboli FORMER Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili has told his Democratic Congress (DC) party supporters to prepare for fresh elections, saying this time they must vote in large numbers to...
View ArticleCompol admits negligence in Mojakhomo disappearance
’Marafaele Mohloboli THE commissioner of police, Holomo Molibeli, says the police’s negligence enabled fraud-accused ‘Makarabo Mojakhomo to disappear from police custody in May this year. Commissioner...
View ArticleMinistry breathes fire over royal palace
…architect accused of using “special family ties” to King Letsie III to mask incompetence and failure to deliver on the project. Pascalinah Kabi THE Principal Secretary in the Ministry of Public Works,...
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