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• Understanding political instability in Lesotho:

  Lestimes May 26, 2017

  

    Can this circle be broken? Professor Mafa M. Sejanamane ADDRESSING questions of political instability in Lesotho has been one of my main pre-occupations in the past two years or so. This has been so after a... Read more »

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• New party dynamics to influence polls

  Lestimes May 26, 2017

  

    Pascalinah Kabi POLITICAL parties have been warned not to read too much into their performances in past elections as the upcoming June polls are likely to be determined by the new dynamics which are currently at... Read more »

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• Prioritise workers’ welfare

  Lestimes May 26, 2017

  

    THE war of words which erupted this week between Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili and his Labour Minister, Advocate Thulo Mahlakeng would have been comical had they not been tragic, given the seriousness of the issues of... Read more »

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• It can’t be business as usual

  Lestimes May 26, 2017

  

  ‘Mako R. Bohloa ON Sunday, 30 April 2017, I watched in dismay as Maluti Sky made its very last flight to Johannesburg. As a resident of Mazenod Airport City, I watched as the jet took off and... Read more »

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• Mosisili’s outburst against SADC

  Lestimes May 26, 2017

  

    Desperation when defeat is certain Professor Mafa Sejanamane FEAR sometimes drives some people to do weird things. Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili’s actions and utterances lately are largely driven by fear which leads him to do and... Read more »

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• Maturing democracy or failure of institutions?

  Lestimes May 19, 2017

  

    . . . as Lesotho goes to the polls again John Aerni-Flessner WHEN Tom Thabane and the All Basotho Convention (ABC) took power after the 2012 elections, it marked the first peaceful transfer of power in... Read more »

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• C’wealth peace-building in action

  Lestimes May 18, 2017

  

  Patricia Scotland IT was just by chance that I discovered a weaver’s workshop, a little gem hidden away in the back of the government-operated Basotho Hat craft shop in the mountain kingdom of Lesotho. This is where... Read more »

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• Maturing democracy or failure of institutions?

  Lestimes May 18, 2017

  

  . . . as Lesotho goes to the polls again John Aerni-Flessner WHEN Tom Thabane and the All Basotho Convention (ABC) took power after the 2012 elections, it marked the first peaceful transfer of power in Lesotho’s... Read more »

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• The case for the congress electoral alliance

  Lestimes May 18, 2017

  

  THIS article stems from the 11 May 2017 article in the Lesotho Times by Professor Mafa Sejanamane titled “Has the DC committed political suicide?” In the article, Prof Sejanamane opines that the electoral pact between the Democratic... Read more »

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• Has the DC committed political suicide?

  Lestimes May 13, 2017

  

  Professor Mafa Sejanamane THE overriding reason for forming political parties to exist is to vie for power. In a democracy accession to power has a direct relation to winning elections on your own or in alliance with... Read more »

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