Daily Archives: March 19, 2025
Moorosi Tsiane THE Lesotho Highlands Water Commission (LHWC) has asked Lesotho Highlands Development Authority (LHDA) board chairperson, Lehlomela Stephen Phakisi, to resign from his cushy post for allegedly violating the Authority’s conflict of interest policy. Mr Phakisi has in turn launched an urgent High Court petition to forestall his employer and keep his job. His court move follows a letter from the LHWC last Friday, requesting that he voluntarily steps down due […]
Mathatisi Sebusi AN alarming 60 percent of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and companies in which the State owns shareholding have failed to pay dividends to the government as expected. In fact, some of them, according to a parliamentary report, have never paid any dividends to the State, since their inception, raising suspicions that they might be engaging in creative accounting to […]
…as women protest escalating femicides Moorosi Tsiane A High Court Assistant Registrar, Tebello Mokhoema, has narrowly survived death after being shot by her boyfriend this past Saturday at her home in Bua-Sono, Berea. The suspect, Tšenolo Thamahane, an employee at the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Offences (DCEO), first shot Advocate Mokhoema’s sister, who had attempted to intervene […]
Mohloai Mpesi OMBUDSMAN, Advocate Tlotliso Polaki, has ordered internal investigations into rogue members of the Lesotho Defence Force (LDF) and Lesotho Mounted Police Service (LMPS) accused of torturing and violating the rights of civilians during anti-crime operations. Adv Polaki has instructed that the investigations be completed and a report issued within six months. Adv […]