Category : Local News

MASERU — One person died and eight others were seriously injured after a minibus taxi they were travelling in crushed into a wall at Maseru...

MASERU — One of the nine men on trial for the April 2009 failed coup and attempt to assassinate Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili has died....

MASERU – Lesotho’s voters’ roll, which is said to be inflated by over a 100 000 ghost voters, has left opposition parties sharply divided. A...

MASERU — The High Court this week dismissed an application by MKM provisional liquidators to ask the registrar of the High Court to keep rentals...

MASERU — A police officer was arrested on Thursday for allegedly killing a famo musician in Mohale’s Hoek last year. Makhaula Hlakane, 35, was gunned...

MASERU — The Lesotho Dairy Products (LDP) is allegedly in financial doldrums which has seen it fail to pay dairy farmers over the past two...

MASERU — A former soldier who killed his wife’s alleged lover after he found the two in a compromising position at a local lodge was...

MASERU — Fifty-four prisoners in Lesotho’s jails were set free on Monday in a general amnesty. The prisoners were granted amnesty by King Letsie III...

MASERU — Education Minister ‘Mamphono Khaketla says 15 percent of children of primary school-going age are out of school. According to government regulations children aged...

MASERU — The multi-million dollar identity document (ID) cards tender is in jeopardy once again. The Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) Lesotho has suspended the adjudication...

MASERU —  Ramootsi Lehata, who as assistant agriculture minister admitted owing millions of maloti to the government’s block farming scheme, has been promoted to become...

MASERU — A former female soldier is suing the commander of the Lesotho Defence Force (LDF) and the Minister of Defence for M2 million after...

ROMA — Professor Sharon Siverts, the National University of Lesotho (NUL) Vice-Chancellor, has blamed staff indiscipline for the “higher than normal failure rate”. Siverts made...

ROMA — Professor Sharon Siverts says she hopes the Lesotho University Teachers and Researchers Union (Lutaru) will cancel their strike planned for next month and...

ROMA — National University of Lesotho (NUL) Vice-Chancellor Professor Sharon Siverts says the university owes M34 million worth of leave days to its nearly 2...

MASERU — Lesotho’s voters’ roll is currently inflated by over 110 000 voters due to failure to clean the register regularly. In a report titled,...

MASERU — Lesotho Revenue Authority (LRA) Commissioner General, Thabo Letjama, said the investigation team had no intention to break in when they raided textile firm,...

MASERU —  About 77 percent of respondents in a government commissioned survey say corruption is now more widespread than in 1999 when the Directorate on...

MASERU — Boithatelo Leopa was granted bail on July 8. Six days later he was dead. Armed gunmen pumped four bullets into Leopa’s body. The...

MASERU — MKM Burial Society might soon fail to bury some of its members because of a crippling financial crisis. There are now fears that...

MASERU — The High Court on Saturday ordered the army to release a soldier who complained that he had been detained and harassed by officers...

MASERU — A prominent businessman, Ashraff Abubaker, and lawyer, Steve Buys, appeared in the High Court this week facing charges of theft, fraud and defeating...

MASERU – The Maseru City Council (MCC) has been forced to move out of its Lesotho National Development Corporation (LNDC) head office because of skyrocketing...

MASERU — Famo music artistes Sarele Sello and Boithatelo Leopa appeared before the Mafeteng Magistrate’s Court on Friday to answer charges of murder. The two...

MASERU — Several trade unions are today expected to meet Labour Minister ’Maphoka Motoboli to push for the dismissal of Labour Commissioner ’Mamohale Matsoso. The...

MASERU — A former soldier who shot dead his wife’s lover after he found the two in a compromising position at a local lodge was...

MASERU — Lesotho National Abattoir could be forced to retrench workers this month as a meat shortage that began in February persists, the Lesotho Times...