Medical cannabis industry reacts to licence fee hike
Bereng Mpaki BOKANG Matsipa, one of the pioneers in the medical marijuana production sector in Lesotho, has welcomed government’s decision to hike the license fees for obtaining a production license....
View ArticleBudget speech postponed
Staff Writer THE Minister of Finance, Moeketsi Majoro, has postponed the long-awaited presentation of his national budget that was penned in for today to next Tuesday. In a letter to the Speaker of...
View ArticleBantu, Matlama, Lioli with one leg in semis
Mikia Kalati DIUTLWILENG Boikanyo scored the only goal to hand Lioli a 1-0 victory over LCS at Maputsoe DIFA Ground on Sunday. The winger netted from the penalty spot to give the Lehlohonolo Thotanyana...
View ArticleMGC’s chance to go big
Mikia Kalati THE Matekane Group of Companies last week announced that it would hold a sports extravaganza that will come in the form of a soccer tournament as and a half marathon race. This will be...
View ArticleKhanyapa, Klass shine in Free State
Mikia Kalati THE Lesotho chess duo of Theko Khanyapa and Tokelo Klaas were in top form last weekend taking first and second places in the Albert Moroka Open Chess Championship in Thaba Nchu, South...
View ArticleLASA nominees announced
Mikia Kalati THE Lesotho Sports and Recreation Commission (LSRC) this week announced the finalists for the 2018 Lesotho Annual Sports Awards (LASA) scheduled for 6 April 2019 at the ‘Manthabiseng...
View ArticleHlaele fights back against ABC rivals
Nat Molomo ALL Basotho Convention (ABC) Senator, Lebohang Hlaele, has filed an urgent High Court application seeking an order barring the outgoing secretary general Samonyane Ntsekele and his...
View ArticleRapapa tables education bill in parliament
Ntsebeng Motsoeli THE Minister of Education, Ntoi Rapapa this week tabled the Education (Amendment) Bill 2019 in parliament which seeks to make adjustments to the Education Act of 2010. The...
View ArticlePM demands ministerial action on police brutality
Nthatuoa Koeshe PRIME Minister Thomas Thabane has condemned police brutality and ordered the Minister of Police, ‘Mampho Mokhele, to furnish him with a report of how the ministry has dealt with cases...
View ArticleWe didn’t kill PC Khetheng: Metsing
Ntsebeng Motsoeli Lesotho Congress of Democracy (LCD) leader Mothetjoa Metsing says he and his deputy, Tšeliso Mokhosi, have nothing to do with the alleged murder of Police Constable (PC) Mokalekale...
View ArticleNo bad blood with other ABC members: Kabi
Mohalenyane Phakela HEALTH minister Nkaku Kabi, who is also the All Basotho Convention (ABC)’s legislator for the Qeme constituency, has dispelled widespread rumours that he held a rally in his...
View ArticleMahao lambasts ABC leaders
…says new national executive committee is being punished because of him Pascalinah Kabi PROFESSOR Nqosa Mahao has attributed the ongoing power struggle between the newly elected national executive...
View ArticleABC NEC embezzled funds: Moshoeshoe
Pascalinah Kabi THE All Basotho Convention (ABC)’s parliamentary caucus chairperson Fako Moshoeshoe says the ruling party’s old national executive committee (NEC) is desperately clinging to power and...
View ArticleCourt gives ABC factions two weeks to negotiate
Mohalenyane Phakela ACTING Chief Justice ‘Maseforo Mahase has given the newly elected and outgoing national executive committees (NECs) of the ruling All Basotho Convention (ABC) until 19 May 2019 to...
View ArticleState House used to plot my assassination: Hlaele
Pascalinah Kabi FORMER Law, Constitutional Affairs and Human Rights Minister Lebohang Hlaele has sensationally claimed that a plot to assassinate him was hatched at the State House, the official...
View ArticleIEC attacks government
…accuses it of undermining its independence Pascalinah Kabi/Mohalenyane Phakela LESOTHO’s Independent Electoral Commission (IEC), which is widely acclaimed for running credible elections over the...
View ArticleTeach Sekatle a lesson: Mosisili
Moorosi Tsiane FORMER Democratic Congress (DC) leader Pakalitha Mosisili has pleaded with members of his party in the Lebakeng constituency in Qacha’s Nek to teach their defected legislator Semano...
View ArticleKamoli, Mokhosi wait on High Court
Mohalenyane Phakela THE case in which murder-accused former Defence minister Tšeliso Mokhosi, former army commander Tlali Kamoli and 14 other former members of different security agencies are seeking...
View Article500 000 Basotho in need of emergency food aid
Staff Reporter MORE than 491 000 people or one quarter of the country’s two million population will require food aid due to the El-Niño induced drought which has hit the country hard during the...
View ArticleTop cop laments under-representation of women
Ntsebeng Motsoeli WOMEN remain under-represented in the Lesotho Mounted Police Service (LMPS) with just a few of them being appointed to senior ranks, the Deputy Commissioner of Police, Bohang Lintle...
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