Category : Local News

Herbert Moyo | Ntsebeng Motsoeli FORMER Energy and Meteorology Minister, Mokoto Hloaele, has denied receiving a M400 million bribe along with former First Lady ‘Maesaiah...

  Nthatuoa Koeshe FOUR female factory workers died in a horrific accident on Tuesday morning when the taxi they were travelling in overturned and landed...

wants him suspended until the finalisation of his sexual assault case Mohalenyane Phakela THE Lesotho Police Staff Association (LEPOSA) has intensified its war with the...

  Mohalenyane Phakela | Pascalinah Kabi POLICE Commissioner Holomo Molibeli and Lesotho Police Staff Association (LEPOSA) spokesperson, Police Constable (PC) Motlatsi Mofokeng, have become sworn...

Herbert Moyo THE Lesotho Communications Authority (LCA) has tightened the screws on the country’s mobile communications operators by ordering them to seek the authority’s approval...

Mohalenyane Phakela MASERU Magistrate, Makopano Rantšo, on Monday released on free bail 11 youths who were arrested last Friday for engaging in an “illegal” demonstration....

Limpho Sello THE Ministry of Education and Training has given a greenlight to Maseru Private Academy (MPA) to resume cases for all learners starting this...

Moorosi Tsiane LESOTHO’S women national team, Mehalalitoe was last week booted out of the ongoing COSAFA championship in Port Elizabeth following a disastrous performance which...

as govt proceeds with massively inflated M2, 8 billion solar project, entire project ought to cost no more than M1, 1 billion, but allegedly overpriced...

move comes after it lost a court bid to fire the feisty AG Pascalinah Kabi THE government has intensified its war with Attorney General Haae...

Ntsebeng Motsoeli THE Lesotho Communications Authority (LCA) has ended Vodacom Lesotho and Econet Telecom Lesotho’s duopoly by amending the regulations to allow more players into the mobile...

Limpho Sello POPULATION Services International (PSI) Lesotho has shifted its focus to an adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) programme that will now become one...

Ntsebeng Motsoeli HEALTH Minister Motlatsi Maqelepo says HIV and AIDS remain Lesotho’s biggest health crises and the situation has just been exacerbated by Covid-19 lockdown....

Mohalenyane Phakela PROSECUTORS of the high-profile trials involving politicians, serving and former members of the security agencies have accused former army commander Lieutenant General (Lt-Gen)...

Mohalenyane Phakela FORMER army commander Lieutenant General (Lt-Gen) Tlali Kamoli and four other soldiers’ attempted murder trial was on Monday postponed to 16 November 2020....

Ntsebeng Motsoeli PARLIAMENT has indefinitely postponed debates on whether or not to approve proposals to increase the salaries of the prime minister, his deputy, ministers,...

Ntsebeng Motsoeli PRIME Minister Moeketsi Majoro says he alone has the power to appoint ministers and reshuffle them as he sees fit. Dr Majoro said...

’Marafaele Mohloboli MORE than 170 former Ministry of Home Affairs have petitioned the government to either renew their contracts or give them terminal benefits. The...

  Ntsebeng Motsoeli TODAY marks exactly a month to the date parliament reconvened after a lengthy winter break which began on 25 June 2020. But...

as woman drowns while attempting to cross into South Africa Limpho Sello LESOTHO has a crisis on its hands after recording a sharp increase in...

Pascalinah Kabi PROMINENT businessman Thabiso Tlelai has died. Mr Tlelai, who had business interests in Lesotho and South Africa’s hospitality sectors, died together with his...

as murders of foreign business owners escalate and, key investors threaten to abandon Lesotho over safety concerns… ’Marafaele Mohloboli THOUSANDS of jobs in the country’s...

says time for negotiations is over and their dispute will be settled by the courts  Pascalinah Kabi  THERE is no love lost between Attorney General...

Mohalenyane Phakela THE Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Advocate Hlalefang Motinyane, has alleged that Police Sub-Inspector Mokheseng Ramahloko was murdered in an attempt to conceal...

Mohalenyane Phakela THE Constitutional Court on Monday dismissed Law and Justice Minister, Professor Nqosa Mahao’s application for an order compelling the Judicial Service Commission (JSC)...

Bereng Mpaki STANDARD Lesotho Bank (SLB) chief executive officer, Kenrick Cockerill, has died. The bank yesterday said Mr Cockerill died in South Africa on 20...

Pascalinah Kabi POLICE are investigating claims that former Foreign Affairs and International Relations Minister, Lesego Makgothi, was bribed by the Moroccan government to abandon Lesotho’s...

Bereng Mpaki PUBLIC Service Minister Semano Sekatle has tabled proposals to increase the salaries of the prime minister, his deputy, legislators as well as heads...

  Bereng Mpaki FORMER Prime Minister Thomas Thabane’s chef, Puleng Mokhele, has dragged the government to the Labour Court over the non-payment of her salaries...

Bereng Mpaki PARLIAMENT this week adopted the Businesses Licensing and Registration Regulations of 2020 which reserve certain businesses for indigenous Basotho only. The regulations have...