Teachers threaten another strike
Mohalenyane Phakela RESTIVE teachers have scheduled countrywide meetings to decide whether or not to resume crippling strikes amid growing anger over the government’s tardiness in addressing their...
View ArticleNGOs castigate Thabane
Pascalinah Kabi NON-GOVERNMENTAL organisations, Development for Peace Education (DPE) and the Lesotho Council of Non-Governmental Organisations (LCN) have joined the growing chorus of local and...
View ArticleLaw Society petitions Court of Appeal over Mahase
Mohalenyane Phakela THE Law Society of Lesotho have approached the Court of Appeal to have controversial Acting Chief Justice ‘Maseforo Mahase interdicted from unprocedurally presiding over a case in...
View ArticleThabane gives up on ABC conflict
’Marafaele Mohloboli ALL Basotho Convention (ABC) leader and Prime Minister Thomas Thabane says he has all but given up hope of ever resolving the ABC power struggle due to what he describes as the...
View Article700 000 Basotho face severe hunger
while politicians continue bickering Staff Writer While politicians continue bickering over power, Lesotho faces its worst hunger crisis in recent years with at least 600 000 needing urgent food aid...
View ArticleWe cannot go on like this
IT is really sad that at a time when Basotho and this country’s well-meaning development partners should have been celebrating the second anniversary and achievements of the governing coalition, we...
View ArticleMP sues police for M2 million torture damages
Pascalinah Kabi OPPOSITION Movement for Economic Change (MEC) legislator Thabo Ramatla is suing Police Commissioner Holomo Molibeli, Assistant Commissioner (ACP) Beleme Lebajoa and two members of the...
View ArticleThabane withdraws Mosito suspension threat
Mohalenyane Phakela PRIME Minster Thomas Thabane yesterday abandoned his plans to suspend and impeach Court of Appeal president Kananelo Mosito. Acting Chief Justice ‘Maseforo Mahase also agreed to...
View ArticleDCEO boss warns brother
Pascalinah Kabi NEWLY-APPOINTED Director General of the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Offences (DCEO) Mahlomola Manyokole has warned his brother, Ministry of Health principal secretary Lefu...
View ArticleTake it like a man: a story of police brutality
’Marafaele Mohloboli WHOEVER spoke about enduring pain and taking it like a man was obviously pontificating from the comfort of their own home. People often speak of tough activists who can stoically...
View ArticlePressure mounts on Molibeli to act against police brutality
’Marafaele Mohloboli GOVERNMENT officials and victims have joined the growing local and international calls for Police Commissioner Holomo Molibeli to act against rogue police officers who have been...
View ArticleManyokole vows not to cherry-pick cases for prosecution
Pascalinah Kabi NEW Directorate on Corruption and Economic Offences (DCEO) boss, Mahlomola Manyokole, has rubbished allegations that he was “parachuted” to the top post to ensure that investigations...
View ArticleDCEO goes after chief investigating officer
Pascalinah Kabi NEWLY-APPOINTED Director General of the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Offences (DCEO), Mahlomola Manyokole, has commenced processes to suspend the DCEO’s Chief Investigating...
View ArticleABC talks collapse, again
Ntsebeng Motsoeli THE latest round of talks aimed at reconciling the warring All Basotho Convention (ABC) factions collapsed this week amid claims by the Professor Nqosa Mahao-led camp that ABC leader...
View ArticleMosito blasts Thabane
calls premier “incompetent” and “bitter” Pascalinah Kabi COURT of Appeal president Justice Kananelo Mosito has come out guns blazing against Prime Minister Thomas Thabane, saying the latter’s...
View ArticleHappy birthday Your Majesty…You look so good and fresh
I JOIN the nation in wishing His Majesty King Letsie 111 a very happy and prosperous 56th birthday, albeit slightly belatedly. Most of you stampeded in buying newspaper space to convey your good wishes...
View ArticlePolihali Dam workers cry foul
Bereng Mpaki WORKERS hired for advance infrastructure developments ahead of the construction of the multi-billion maloti Polihali Dam have threatened legal action against their employers whom they...
View ArticleLeaders receive draft National Reforms Authority bill
’Marafaele Mohloboli THE government has drafted the National Reforms Authority Bill aimed at creating an independent body to oversee the implementation of the multi-sector reforms that were recommended...
View ArticleMahao rules out forming splinter party
Ntsebeng Motsoeli ALL Basotho Convention (ABC) deputy leader Professor Nqosa Mahao and his allies have ruled out forming a splinter party as his faction’s battle for control with the party’s former...
View ArticleCourt of Appeal slams “shocking” Justice Mahase conduct
Mohalenyane Phakela Acting Chief Justice ‘Maseforo Mahase has once again come under heavy criticism from the Court of Appeal over her conduct increasingly seen as severely compromising the integrity of...
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