Grounding reforms on the notion of Botho
Monaheng Joseph Mahlatsi LESOTHO is about to embark on security, constitutional, media and public service reforms. The need for those reforms is clear evidence...
Category : Opinion
Potholes in opposition reforms roadmap
Nthakeng Pheello Selinyane THE main opposition views on our country’s future continue to baffle many a good citizen. The former prime minister, Pakalitha Mosisili’s...
Protecting our government from itself:
Why Yan Xie has to go! You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control...
Reforms are the ultimate solution
Editorial OUR body politic is characterised by perennial squabbles over so many issues but one thing that is sure to unite Basotho across the partisan...
‘MPs loans criteria needs review’
IN November 2015, the then seven-party government led by Pakalitha Mosisili paid M32 million to a local financial institution which 118 members of the...
Can an intervention bring reforms?
Dr Fako Likoti FOLLOWING the just ended 37 Summit of SADC from 19th to 20th August 2017, speculation is rife that, there will be...
The brouhaha around legislators’ debts
Nthakeng Pheello Selinyane OUR air is thick with a vibrant furore around the now (unofficially) widely publicized cabinet decision to disburse M43.5 million to...
Let us live within our means
HEADS much wiser than our own have wondered at the propensity of human beings to fear so many things including goblins and supernatural creatures...
Understanding Khetheng’s fate
IT took more than 15 months of dodging and ducking by the police to hide what had happened to their colleague, Police Constable (PC)...
Lekhanya’s remarks and the reforms vision
Nthakeng Pheello Selinyane SOME remarks by the former Lesotho Defence Force (LDF) commander, military ruler and later beleaguered leader of the Basotho National Party (BNP)...
Righting one of Mosisili’s injustices:
The reinstatement of Mosito as president of Court of Appeal THE rule of thumb of good governance is that public appointments and dismissals should...
So who are the ‘MaNazi’ now?
What the LLA pension tells us Nthakeng Pheello Selinyane SO the 24-year old wailing of the Lesotho Liberation Army (LLA) of the Basutoland Congress...
Govt engendering public confidence
IT can never be over-emphasised that any government must do everything in its power to engender public confidence and it would appear that the...
Bugging underscores need for reforms
THE use of surveillance equipment to spy on any individual, more so the prime minister of a country is bound to suggest sinister motives....
Police Complaints Authority needs overhaul
Hlalele Hlalele ONE only needs to encounter a challenge related to law enforcement to realise that Lesotho still has a long way to go...
A call for Lesotho’s Constitutional Reforms
Motlatsi Ramafole SINCE independence in 1966, the Kingdom of Lesotho has experienced many political crises that have negatively impacted on the country’s economic growth. Lesotho...
Dismantling Mosisili’s militia
Progress and challenges AS expected, the newly-formed government of Lesotho faces a phenomenal task to unscramble a deliberate plan by former premier Pakalitha Mosisili...
No land for development in Lesotho
‘Mako Bohloa I WROTE this opinion piece in response to an article I read in the Lesotho Times of 29 June 2017 “Govt to...
Majoring in minors will take us nowhere
LAST Friday, King Letsie III called for the speedy implementation of all the Southern African Development Community (SADC) recommendations and the depoliticisation of security institutions...
How to ensure access to justice for women in Africa
Teddy Atim INTERNATIONAL and national laws broadly recognise equal rights for all. These include the right to fair and equitable access to justice. But justice for...
Will the new govt last the distance?
Hlalele Hlalele LESOTHO now has its third government in five years after the previous two failed to last the distance. For the new government...
Africa needs to health reboot to cope with NCDs
Neo Tapela When it comes to killer diseases in Africa many people think of infectious diseases like tuberculosis, malaria, or even Ebola. But the reality...
Could the past arrest the new govt?
Nthakeng Pheello Selinyane A LOT of the things that could have been predicted by a political toddler as poised to trip, and even bring...
What SA needs after Zuma finally goes
Jannie Rossouw SOUTH Africa’s march into a democracy was greatly helped by a multiparty government of national unity established after the 1994 elections. It governed...
Is Metsing agitating for a coup?
Mafa Sejanamane AS opposed to a rebellion, a coup is never a spontaneous development. It takes time and plotting to put the pieces together....
Understanding political instability in Lesotho:
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...
New party dynamics to influence polls
Pascalinah Kabi POLITICAL parties have been warned not to read too much into their performances in past elections as the upcoming June polls are...
Prioritise workers’ welfare
THE war of words which erupted this week between Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili and his Labour Minister, Advocate Thulo Mahlakeng would have been comical...
It can’t be business as usual
‘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...
Mosisili’s outburst against SADC
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...