Category : Local News

MASERU — A 25-year-old prisoner was found dead in his cell at Leribe police station last Tuesday morning. The man, whose name was not revealed...

MASERU — A 26-year-old Maseru man who is facing charges of sexually assaulting and robbing an American Peace Corps volunteer was this week denied bail...

MASERU — South Africa will with effect from today only grant six-month travel permits to Lesotho citizens classified as frequent travellers to the neigbouring country....

MASERU — Three army officers were on Tuesday jailed after they were found guilty of killing a police officer during political disturbances that rocked the...

MASERU — A defence lawyer has opposed an application by a state prosecutor asking the High Court to accept incriminating statements made by eight accused...

Ruling brings long-running court battle to an end   MASERU — The long-running row over the ownership of a transport firm ended on Tuesday after...

MASERU — The Ministry of Home Affairs plans to introduce a system that will make it possible for people who have applied for passports to...

MASERU — She took a piece of a birthday cake to a gardener at the family home. But the gardener was not satisfied with the...

MASERU — Joale Nkoale and his family in Peka, Leribe, about 60 kilometres north of Maseru, are still in shock. His son, Ntsoeta Nkoale, 14,...

… describes ABC leader’s unity government calls as ‘loose talk’   MASERU — Deputy Prime Minister Lesao Lehohla yesterday described as “loose talk” calls by...

MASERU — Re-elected Basotho National Party (BNP) secretary general Ranthomeng Matete has distanced himself from the faction opposed to the former ruling party leader Metsing...

 Litigants will not need legal representation   MASERU — The Ministry of Justice plans to bar lawyers from the planned small claims court in a...

MASERU — A Maseru woman is suing a National Assembly clerk for M2 million for allegedly being involved in an adulterous relationship with her husband....

MASERU — A magistrate’s court has ruled that Maseru lawyer Haae Phoofolo was free to proceed with his claim for payment from retired politician Chaltin...

MOKHOTLONG — Villagers in Lipohong in Mokhotlong last Friday handed in nine illegal firearms as the police stepped up efforts to clear illegal firearms. Police...

MASERU — The deputy director in the Ministry of Communications, Science and Technology, Thabiso Makintane, died in Maseru last Saturday after a short illness. Mankitane,...

MASERU — A local newspaper, The Guardian, has folded after only two weeks on the streets due to financial problems, the Lesotho Times has learnt....

MASERU — A prominent businessman Tumo Tlelai could be sent to prison for contempt of court after the High Court last month found him guilty...

MASERU — The Honorary Consul for Denmark in Lesotho, Kuena Phafane, faces arrest for contempt of court a few weeks after he escaped being slapped...

MASERU — Four men, including two security guards, have been arrested after they allegedly robbed a local supermarket of M15 000 in cash at gunpoint....

MASERU — A pastor of the Kereke ea Moshoeshoe Church this week asked the High Court to grant him access to the church building after...

Deputy PM rushes to Pretoria to defuse crisis   MASERU — Deputy Prime Minister Lesao Lehohla has been dispatched to Pretoria to try and defuse...

MASERU — Lesotho’s civic groups say they will stage protests at the South Africa High Commission office in Maseru if South Africa does not lift...

MASERU — It’s the early bird that gets the fattest worm, so goes the English adage. Pyramid schemes work the same way. Those who join...

MASERU — A 21-year-old Mafeteng man, John Ts’ehlo, is facing a charge of murder for allegedly killing his grandmother whom he accused of practising witchcraft....

MASERU — A 21-year-old Malawian national is in police custody after he was caught trying to secure a Lesotho passport using false identity papers, the...

MASERU – It is bitterly cold. The young school children are dressed up for the winter to keep warm. They are in heavy jackets some...

MASERU — Two men from Mafeteng were on Monday imprisoned for five years each after they were convicted of conspiring to kill two popular famo...

MASERU — Lesotho’s heavy dependence on food imports is an embarrassment, Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili has said. Mosisili made the remarks yesterday as he officially...

MASERU — Lesotho’s opposition leaders yesterday slammed the national agriculture forum describing the conference as a joke that was “doomed to fail”. They said it...