Category : Local News

MASERU — Prince Harry says the people of Lesotho will be decimated by Aids if action to fight the disease is not intensified, British tabloid...

MASERU — A 22-year-old man from Roma was beaten to death by angry villagers who accused him of raping a dog and assaulting two people...

MASERU — The government this week failed to launch an application in a South African court to extradite Makotoko Lerotholi to face charges of armed...

MASERU — Africa Media Holdings (AMH), publishers of the Lesotho Times, have announced the launch of a new weekly paper to be published every Sunday. The Sunday...

MASERU – Former president of Botswana Sir Ketumile Masire arrived in Lesotho yesterday to resume talks between the government and opposition parties over the 2007...

MASERU — A police officer is suing the commissioner of police and the attorney general for M3.6 million as compensation for the alleged assault that...

MOKHOTLONG — Two brothers were last Friday jailed for 10 years each without an option of  a fine for raping their 12-year-old niece. The minor...

MASERU — The Minister of Finance, Timothy Thahane, has blamed the teething problems of the government’s new financial management system on the people whom he...

MASERU — The Thaba-Tseka business community is up in arms against the district administrator over allocation of contracts to traders from other districts. The business...

ROTHE  – All Basotho Convention (ABC) leader Thomas Thabane has accused the government of using the military to “intimidate people”. Speaking at a rally in...

MASERU — The Lesotho government is being sued for a staggering M3 billion by a South African businessman for revoking leases of his five diamond...

MASERU — Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili last weekend publicly thanked members of the Lesotho Defence Force (LDF) for saving his life during attacks at his...

MASERU — High Court judge Tséliso Monaphathi is today expected to pass final judgment in a case in which a former accountant with the Lesotho...

MASERU — The director of Poverty Reduction Programme (Prep) Topollo Lephatsóe this week said the government is deeply touched by the death of over 50...

MASERU — The fight for the control of PC FM has intensified. Last week the Lesotho Times (LT) revealed that Mohau Thakaso who claims to...

WELKOM — Local non-governmental organisations have appealed to the government of South Africa to declare an amnesty for hundreds of miners still trapped at Eland...

MASERU — The entertainment industry was this week plunged into mourning following the sudden death of DJ Kennysto, above, one of the country’s finest jockeys....

MASERU — The battle for the control of People’s Choice FM (PC FM) reached new heights this week with revelations that the executive chairman, Mohau...

MASERU — The youth league of the ruling Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) party two weeks ago wrote a letter to Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili...

MASERU — The number of Basotho men who perished in the Welkom illegal mining disaster has soared to 46 following the discovery and identification of...

MASERU — The Lesotho Public Service Staff Association (LEPSSA) which represents government workers is in turmoil after members resolved to dissolve the association’s executive committee...

MASERU — Orphans and primary school children that get food assistance from government are likely to starve because truck owners hired to transport the food...

MASERU — Two men from Butha-Buthe were sentenced to 25 years each by the High Court for murder and assault. Teboho Mlangeni, 24, and Mpokatsi...

MASERU — Lesotho students studying in South Africa have been warned to be on the lookout for fraudulent healthcare consultants who are masquerading as brokers...

MASERU — When 50-year-old Ntsékhe Thakaso lost his job at Impala Platinum Mine in Rustenburg in 2006 he was devastated. Thakaso was deemed excess to...

MASERU – Popular broadcaster Motlatsi Ncholu will answer sexual offence charges again in the next two months after the High Court ordered a restart of...

BUTHA-BUTHE — The president of the Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) youth league has distanced the youth wing from a petition sent to the prime...

MASERU – Two men who are facing murder charges told the High Court on Tuesday that they confessed to the murder after they were assaulted...

THABA-TSEKA – The people of Ha-Noko village in Thaba-Tseka are grieving. Nine men from the village were among the 86 people who perished in the...

WELKOM – The smell of death wafts through the air around the Welkom Government Mortuary. It is in this morgue where 86 died bodies of...