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How Lesotho can leverage multilateralism and Its Commonwealth membership to boost the economy and tackle youth unemployment

Lesotho TimesMarch 26, 2026

by Lesotho TimesMarch 26, 20260216

Mokhali Khohlooa Walk through the streets of Maseru on any weekday. Near the taxi ranks along Kingsway, young people sell airtime, roasted maize, sweets, second-hand clothes,...

Opinion

Walking Forward Together: Migration and the Spirit of King Moshoeshoe

Lesotho TimesMarch 11, 2026

by Lesotho TimesMarch 11, 20260169

By Amy Pope, Director General, International Organization for Migration Each year on Moshoeshoe’s Day, Basotho retrace a journey that is both physical and symbolic: the...

Opinion

The dangers of giving platforms to untrained analysts

Lesotho TimesDecember 24, 2025December 24, 2025

by Lesotho TimesDecember 24, 2025December 24, 202503942

Gabashane Masupha IN many countries facing complex developmental, economic and governance challenges such as Lesotho, there is a growing and deeply troubling trend of allowing unqualified individuals to...

Opinion

The selective memory of western critique must not derail Africa’s preferred path to genuine development

Lesotho TimesOctober 29, 2025October 29, 2025

by Lesotho TimesOctober 29, 2025October 29, 202504370

Silence Charumbira Historical amnesia about colonial exploitation Recent Western policy briefs on Chinese activities in Africa reveal troubling historical amnesia. For centuries, European and American...

Opinion

Our political system is broken and fragile – Dr Moroke

Lesotho TimesAugust 29, 2025August 30, 2025

by Lesotho TimesAugust 29, 2025August 30, 202503605

. . . survival politics matter more than service delivery . . . regimes should build on predecessors, not start afresh. Mohloai Mpesi MEMBER of...

Features & Analysis Opinion

Uncircumsised Leadership

Lesotho TimesJuly 31, 2025

by Lesotho TimesJuly 31, 202505313

Gabashane Masupha Political & Policy Analyst In the anatomy of a democratic state, institutions are the sinews that hold the body politic together. When those...

Comment Opinion

Lemphane-Letsie’s case must be expeditiously adjudicated

Lesotho TimesMay 31, 2025

by Lesotho TimesMay 31, 202512 5876

CHAIRPERSONS of the parliamentary Public Accounts Committees (PAC)s must be upstanding individuals of the highest moral character, free from corruption. This is vital to...

Opinion

Bridges, Not Walls: A window of opportunity for South Africa to reset relations with Rwanda.

Lesotho TimesMay 13, 2025May 13, 2025

by Lesotho TimesMay 13, 2025May 13, 202502769

By Silence Charumbira Presidents Cyril Ramaphosa and Paul Kagame during a Presidential panel at the Africa CEO Forum in Abidjan – Ivory Coast on 12...

Opinion

The Spirit of Nkrumah: Can Pan-Africanism Shield Africa from the Winds of Trump? The case of Lesotho

Lesotho TimesMay 8, 2025May 12, 2025

by Lesotho TimesMay 8, 2025May 12, 202502732

Thuso Mosabala The storm clouds of uncertainty gather on the horizon. The unpredictable winds of global politics, fueled by the “America First” doctrine, threaten...

Comment Opinion

Dr Mofubelu’s sexual assault cases highly disturbing

Lesotho TimesMarch 3, 2025

by Lesotho TimesMarch 3, 20255 4845

DOCTORS, just like lawyers, judges, among other professionals, hold significant authority within society. We all seek their expertise and their presumed extensive knowledge of...

Features & Analysis Opinion

An Opportunity to Deepen Trade and Investment between the United States and Lesotho

Lesotho TimesNovember 7, 2023

by Lesotho TimesNovember 7, 20230720

Op-Ed by Ambassador Maria Brewer “The United States is all in on Africa,” President Biden affirmed during the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit last December. The future...

News Opinion

Lesotho’s amendments to mobile phone regulations welcome but not enough

Lesotho TimesNovember 18, 2022

by Lesotho TimesNovember 18, 20221938

Herbert Moyo ALTHOUGH Lesotho has amended its draconian mobile phone subscriber regulations to remove clauses which allowed members of the security agencies access to subscribers’...

Opinion

I Hereby Publicly Pledge (In Anticipation of 200 years of Lesotho’s Founding in 2024)

Lesotho TimesOctober 6, 2022October 5, 2022

by Lesotho TimesOctober 6, 2022October 5, 202211467

By Advocate Mothepa Ndumo The brilliant Mosotho Historian, Dr. Sean Maliehe, writes in his book chapter, Money and markets for and against the people: The rise...

Wall Street ends down as investors eye slowing economy

Lesotho TimesDecember 3, 2021February 22, 2023

by Lesotho TimesDecember 3, 2021February 22, 202301070

There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission. We will control the horizontal, we...

Opinion

The FDA is Helping Millions of Americans Hear Better, Finally

Lesotho TimesAugust 30, 2021

by Lesotho TimesAugust 30, 20210841

Good web design has visual weight, is optimized for various devices, and has content that is prioritized for the medium. The most important elements of...

Meet 5 People Who Think They Know What Will Happen This Year

Lesotho TimesAugust 30, 2021

by Lesotho TimesAugust 30, 20210848

Good web design has visual weight, is optimized for various devices, and has content that is prioritized for the medium. The most important elements of...

9 Successful Young Women Entrepreneurs Share Their Best Business

Lesotho TimesAugust 29, 2021

by Lesotho TimesAugust 29, 20210850

Good web design has visual weight, is optimized for various devices, and has content that is prioritized for the medium. The most important elements of...

Opinion

Yes, Crypto Is Crashing Again. Blockchain Will Survive

Lesotho TimesAugust 28, 2021

by Lesotho TimesAugust 28, 20210887

Good web design has visual weight, is optimized for various devices, and has content that is prioritized for the medium. The most important elements of...

Comment Opinion

Covid-19: Is Lesotho ready for the Third Wave?

Lesotho TimesAugust 11, 2021August 11, 2021

by Lesotho TimesAugust 11, 2021August 11, 20210908

By Peete Molapo The Covid-19 pandemic has all the trappings of a black swan event. It has upended everything. Despite some positive interventions in the...

Local News News Opinion

‘Jury still out on Majoro as he marks first 100 days in office’

Lesotho TimesSeptember 1, 2020

by Lesotho TimesSeptember 1, 20201957

Staff Writers PRIME Minister Moeketsi Majoro took office on 20 May 2020 with a professed agenda of restoring good governance and the rule of law,...

Opinion

Keep Learning Alive — How to prevent a national education crisis

Lesotho TimesAugust 25, 2020August 25, 2020

by Lesotho TimesAugust 25, 2020August 25, 20200715

Anurita Bains and Richard Banda We know COVID-19 is a global health emergency. But the pandemic has also caused the largest disruption of schooling in...

Opinion

Open letter to the Right Honourable Prime Minister Moeketsi Majoro

Lesotho TimesAugust 11, 2020

by Lesotho TimesAugust 11, 20200788

By Mamello Morrison 5 August 2020 Dear Dr Majoro Let me take this opportunity to address this humble letter to you on this fifth day...

Opinion

Maaparankoe: five years of paralysed justice and misguided TRC — Mahao Mahao

Lesotho TimesJuly 8, 2020

by Lesotho TimesJuly 8, 20200624

JUNE 25 this year marked exactly five years since the assassination of Lt General Maaparankoe Mahao by men who had sworn to protect His Majesty’s...

Opinion

When it comes to investing the earlier the better

Lesotho TimesJune 6, 2020June 16, 2020

by Lesotho TimesJune 6, 2020June 16, 20200740

Leonard Nyambuya PROCRASTINATION and the assumption that one has a lot of time ahead of them can delay one from enjoying the benefits that...

News Opinion

Malealea community unites against Covid-19

Lesotho TimesMay 19, 2020May 19, 2020

by Lesotho TimesMay 19, 2020May 19, 20200756

Mahao Mahao and Gillian Attwood As the world’s wealthiest and poorest nations alike rallied their resources in open combat against the Coronavirus, Lesotho has been...

Opinion

Victimisation of Africans in China threatens Afro-Sino relations

Lesotho TimesApril 20, 2020

by Lesotho TimesApril 20, 20200774

Mills Soko and Mzukisi Qobo CHINA has prided itself on being Africa’s true friend, and has always boasted that, unlike Western countries, it has never...

Comment Opinion

Govt should fight graft

Lesotho TimesDecember 18, 2019

by Lesotho TimesDecember 18, 20190799

It has been said that promises by politicians are as brittle as lovers’ oaths. This is certainly true of the current ruling coalition which appears...

Opinion

Isolation

Lesotho TimesNovember 18, 2019February 22, 2023

by Lesotho TimesNovember 18, 2019February 22, 20230949

Vocibus volutpat reprimique eum cu, his nonumy voluptua lobortis et, eum periculis assueverit reformidans at. Amet sanctus neglegentur at sed, saepe scaevola atomorum mea ex....

Local News News Opinion

Thabane needs to urgently tackle problems in judiciary

Lesotho TimesOctober 16, 2019

by Lesotho TimesOctober 16, 20190765

Poloko Mokhele TWO years after regaining power on the back of promises to implement multi-sector reforms, restore political stability, tackle rampant corruption and unemployment as...

Opinion

Thoughts on the current discourses on reconciliation and unity

Lesotho TimesOctober 8, 2019

by Lesotho TimesOctober 8, 20190719

Nthakeng Pheello Selinyane A SPECTRE is haunting our Mountain Kingdom. It is a spectre of muddled discourses on national reconciliation and unity. But we have...