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• Reusable pads restore girls’ dignity

  Lestimes March 31, 2017

  

    Pascalinah Kabi LERIBE – The late Whitney Houston, a world-famous musician, once sang about how we all have dreams and how “everyone wants a chance to become someone”. The rest of the song was about the... Read more »

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• Reusable pads restore girls’ dignity

  Lestimes March 25, 2017

  

    Pascalinah Kabi LERIBE – The late Whitney Houston, a world-famous musician, once sang about how we all have dreams and how “everyone wants a chance to become someone”. The rest of the song was about the... Read more »

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• A silver lining to the El Nino drought

  Lestimes November 15, 2016

  

    Pascalinah Kabi SEVENTEENTH century English poet and civil servant John Milton is credited with coining the phrase “silver lining” which was eventually developed into the saying “every cloud has a silver lining”. This simply means that... Read more »

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• Dignity restored for primary school learners

  Lestimes September 16, 2016

  

    Pascalinah Kabi BOBETE, THABA-TSEKA – Sixteen-year old ‘Mantsali Selumi can finally afford a smile thanks to the Lesotho Red Cross Society and Wateraid Southern Africa who built toilets at her Marumo Primary School and Bobete Primary... Read more »

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• ‘Water scarcity affects women the most’

  Lestimes September 2, 2016

  

    Pascalinah Kabi MAFETENG – Polotso Mokhasi is a nursing mother from Ha Ralitabo in Kolo, Mafeteng. Having grown up in the isolated village, she knows only too well the struggle to access water, sanitation and hygiene... Read more »

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• ‘National gender dialogue imperative’

  Lestimes August 27, 2016

  

    Pascalinah Kabi GENDER and Youth, Sports and Recreation Deputy Minister ‘Marefuoe Muso says the obstacles women were facing in their socio-economic advancement could only be addressed through a national dialogue on gender issues. In an interview... Read more »

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• Fighting a deadly legacy

  Lestimes July 1, 2016

  

      Young people who have witnessed the social and medical effect of mining on their parents are fighting for their rights.   Caelainn Hogan   On a hard shoulder of the God Help Me Pass, men... Read more »

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• A trail of destruction

  Lestimes June 17, 2016

  

    Land degradation has left rural Basotho in danger of losing the very source of their livelihoods     Pascalinah Kabi MOHALE’S HOEK- Technologies for Economic Development (TED)—a local non-governmental organisation (NGO) dealing with ecological issues—has warned Lesotho... Read more »

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• Youthful farmer shows the way

  Lestimes June 10, 2016

  

    Pascalinah Kabi He has been through the wringer in the few years he has been a commercial farmer but 34-year-old Hoaba Nkunyane is not a quitter. Mr Nkunyane says he did not resign from his lucrative... Read more »

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• Cycle of blood, pain and humiliation  

  Lestimes June 3, 2016

  

      Pascalinah Kabi THABA-TSEKA – Mahali Tšoeu is in excruciating pain, but the 14-year-old trudges on as if nothing is amiss. A slight limp is the only betrayal of her agony but the Bobete Primary School... Read more »

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