COSC results out, pass rate slightly down
MASERU — The Ministry of Education and Training will release the 2009 Cambridge Overseas School Certificate (COSC) results today. Acting education minister Ralechate ‘Mokose told...
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Senkatana set to elect new leadership
MASERU — Breakaway political party, Senkatana, will hold its first general conference to elect a substantive leadership in Maseru next Friday. Senkatana broke away from...
NUL professor could challenge Lekhanya
MASERU — A faction in the Basotho National Party (BNP) says it wants prominent political scholar Professor Kopano Makoa to challenge party leader Major General...
Cameras betray dumb crooks
MASERU — A petrol attendant at Excel Filling station along Pope John Paul II Road in Maseru must have thought he had hit a jackpot...
HIV positive man convicted of rape
MASERU — When a woman is chased and stabbed with a knife, she cannot consent to sex even if she had undressed herself. This was...
Civil servants order bank to stop salary deductions
MASERU — Civil servants on Monday ordered a local commercial bank, Lesotho Standard Bank, to stop deducting money from their salaries on behalf of three...
Law Society challenges DPP honour
MASERU — The Law Society of Lesotho has filed a notice at the High Court to challenge the appointment of Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP),...
JC results out
MASERU — The 2009 Junior Certificate (JC) results are out. The Minister of Education and Training, Dr ‘Mphono Khaketla, announced at a press conference held...
Judge recuses self in PC FM case
MASERU — A High Court judge has recused himself from a case involving People’s Choice FM’s top management, saying he personally knew both the applicant...
Another famo singer shot dead
MAFETENG — Popular famo artist, Tumelo Shea, 33, and his wife, Mmakananelo, 30, were murdered in their home in Makeneng in Mafeteng last weekend. The...
Analyst slams ‘weak judiciary’
MASERU — A sociology lecturer at the National University of Lesotho (NUL), Dr ‘Makhotsang Phokojoe, has blamed a “weak judiciary” for the increasing cases of...
Scorned suitor stabs woman
LERIBE — A 26-year-old woman from Pitseng in Leribe was stabbed to death last Friday after she allegedly rejected a man’s love proposal. Police spokesman...
Media policy awaits cabinet approval
MASERU — Cabinet has still not approved the draft media policy for Lesotho four months after the policy was unveiled to the media. Communications Minister...
Man denied bail after jail escape
MASERU — A 29-year-old man from Mphaki in Quthing who is charged with the theft of motor vehicle parts was on Tuesday denied bail by...
Army chief speaks on attacks
MASERU — The commander of the Lesotho Defence Force (LDF) Major General Thuso Motanyane has said the April 22 attacks on the State House and...
Hundreds return home
MASERU — It is 10am and the Maseru Bridge is congested; both human and vehicular traffic choke the country’s major border post. On a Wednesday,...
Christmas shoppers in last-minute rush
MASERU — The city was swarming with last-minute shoppers yesterday ahead of the festive holiday. Shop assistants could be seen battling to clear long, winding...
Blue Ribbon employees in court over theft
MASERU — Two Blue Ribbon employees on Tuesday appeared in the Maseru Magistrate Court facing charges of theft by false pretence. Motheo Mohasisa (44) from...
‘Killing was self defence’
MASERU — The murder trial of a police officer accused of shooting a suspected armed robber 14 years ago, continued in the Lesotho High Court...
Lawyers snub ‘old’ judge
MASERU — The Law Society of Lesotho (LSL) wants all lawyers to boycott a former chief justice who has been temporarily re-hired by the state...
US agency speaks out on Land Bill
MASERU — The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) says if the controversial Land Bill is not passed into law it will have to withdraw USUS$20.5 million...
Mafeteng men fight over mall
MAFETENG — The son of a former government minister is embroiled in a bitter dispute with a popular businessman, Ashraf Abubaker, over the ownership of...
Wife rapes husband
MASERU — A Maseru woman, ‘Malerato Masoabi, was yesterday slapped with a three-year jail sentence for raping her husband. This is the first time that...
Hey there, big spender!
MASERU — When it comes to spending university funds the vice-chancellor is an extremely extravagant fellow. That is how an internal audit summed up the...
US envoy meets ABC youth leader
MASERU — United States ambassador to Lesotho Robert Nolan on Monday met All Basotho Convention (ABC) youth league president, Libe Moremoholo, to discuss the opposition’s...
Mosisili takes HIV test
THABA-TSEKA — Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili took an voluntary HIV test on Tuesday as part of an awareness campaign during the World Aids Day. Mosisili...
Thahane to dish out bitter pills
MASERU — When Finance Minister Timothy Thahane delivers his budget next year the common man is likely to get a sinking feeling in the tummy....
Manpower bails out Mahlala
MASERU — The government has been forced to bail out middleman Bothata Mahlala by settling the hundreds of thousands of maloti he owes to estate...
Youth leagues demand urgent NMDS probe
MASERU — The youth wings of the ruling Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) and the main opposition All Basotho Convention (ABC) have demanded an urgent...
Boy (10) killed over theft
BUTHA-BUTHE — Likhapha Lelosa, 21, is still in shock after her only brother, Tankiso, was clobbered to death with a knobkerrie two weeks ago. Ten-year-old...