Category : Local News

  POLICE brutality has and continues to be a thorny issue in Lesotho. No less an authority than the African Union (AU) has spoken out...

LESOTHO’S human rights record and in particular the issue of police brutality has been under local and international spotlight in recent years. Back in 2018,...

  IN September 2021, the European Union (EU) appointed Paola Amadei as its new ambassador to Lesotho. She replaced Christian Manahl, who left the country...

’Marafaele Mohloboli A 22-YEAR-OLD Ha-Leqele, Maseru, man has been arrested in connection with the gruesome murder of National University of Lesotho (NUL) lecturer, Teboli Makafane...

. . . as govt pleads poverty, says it has no money to continue funding Mozambique tour of duty Moorosi Tsiane LESOTHO Defence Force (LDF)...

’Marafaele Mohloboli THE Nqosa Mahao-led Basotho Action Party (BAP) will hold its elective conference on 25 and 26 February 2022. This will be the party’s...

  ’Marafaele Mohloboli VILLAGERS in Ha-Masupha, Metolong, are in shock after a 16-year-old boy shot and killed a police officer on Saturday. This after the...

  POLICE brutality has and continues to be a thorny issue in Lesotho. No less an authority than the African Union (AU) has spoken out...

  Staff Reporters   LESOTHO’S human rights record and in particular the issue of police brutality has been under local and international spotlight in recent...

as prominent human rights lawyer is abducted and brutally tortured, while another lawyer goes into hiding as police threaten to kill him.   Mohalenyane Phakela...

  . . . as minister is accused of soliciting a M3 million bribe to approve tender Mohalenyane Phakela    THE skeletons are continuing to...

  Limpho Sello A Queen Mamohato Memorial Hospital (QMMH) nurse has been arrested for illegally attempting to apply for a passport on behalf of a...

  . . . as jobs carnage continue in the textiles sector Bereng Mpaki HIPPO Knitting, a Taiwanese-owned company in Ha Hoohlo, Maseru, has begun...

. . . as Ntsekele reportedly withdraws and throws weight behind Kabi ’Marafaele Mohloboli THE race to succeed founding All Basotho Convention (ABC) leader, Thomas...

lead prosecutor Abrahams in no-show due to prior commitments, as Mochoboroane applies for discharge. Mohalenyane Phakela THE treason and murder trial of politicians, Selibe Mochoboroane,...

Moorosi Tsiane RESTIVE teachers have threatened to go on strike to force the government to implement a career and salary structure agreed by the two sides...

…august house in race against time to finalise reforms bill, budget and other issues: Maema ’Marafaele Mohloboli THE re-opening of parliament has been brought forward...

  Mohalenyane Phakela THE Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) says it is forging ahead with the delimitation of constituencies ahead of this year’s elections. This after...

Staff Reporters THE year has got off to a bad start for workers amid reports that Hippo Knitting, a Taiwanese-owned garments factory, is retrenching 750...

…as Majoro, Kabi, Rapapa, Ntsekele vie to replace Thabane, …Rapapa fires warning shots at rivals; derisively labels them ‘Maesaiah’s boys, …vows to win and “retrieve...

Staff Reporters ALL Basotho Convention (ABC) leader, Thomas Thabane (pictured), who had over the past three years, resisted calls for him to quit, finally agreed...

’Marafaele Mohloboli ALLIANCE of Democrats (AD) leader, Monyane Moleleki’s decision to seek re-election in the Machache constituency has not gone down well with some party...

. . . accuses SADC facilitator of seeking to protect Metsing and Mochoboroane from prosecution, . . . says reforms should proceed with or without...

Bereng Mpaki PRIME Minister Moeketsi Majoro has reiterated the government’s stance that all employers in the public and private sector should ensure that their employees...

’Marafaele Mohloboli LOCAL Government and Chieftainship minister, Lehlohonolo Moramotse, has been accused of land pollution amid revelations that his unlicensed waste disposal truck was impounded...

Staff Reporter PRIME Minister Moeketsi Majoro has recovered from Covid-19. The premier had tested positive to the virus on Christmas eve and he immediately went...

FORMER Prime Minister, Thomas Thabane, will step down as leader of the ruling All Basotho Convention (ABC). Announcing the decision on 31 December 2021 in...