Category : Local News

  Tefo Tefo The Court of Appeal this week ordered Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili to temporarily stop establishing a tribunal for the impeachment of Justice...

  Limpho Sello MINISTRY of Health Acting Principal Secretary ‘Mamoruti Tiheli says pharmacists are unsung heroes in the health delivery system since they play a...

  Billy Ntaote The opposition alliance has vowed to release the original copy of Justice Mpaphi Phumaphi’s report should the government decide to publish an...

  Lekhetho Ntsukunyane A three-member American delegation from the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) is in the country to meet with Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili over...

  ’Marafaele Mohloboli IN a week of high drama, the Southern African Development Community (SADC) descended with a heavy hammer on Lesotho, issuing an unprecedented...

  Staff Reporters SADC’s threat to suspend Lesotho was the reason why the government finally decided to accept the Phumaphi report, the Lesotho Times has...

  Keiso Mohloboli ‘Mamphanya Mahao—the wife of slain former army commander Maaparankoe Mahao—says she will “never rest” until she knows “the truth” behind her husband’s...

  Tefo Tefo THE High Court on Tuesday postponed to 5 February 2016 a case in which Special Forces Commander Lieutenant-Colonel Tefo Hashatsi wants the...

  Keiso Mohloboli THE Southern African Development Community (SADC) Double Troika on Monday ordered the Lesotho government to publicise Justice Mpaphi Phumaphi’s report within fourteen...

  Billy Ntaote TRANSFORMATION Resource Centre (TRC) Director Tsoeu Petlane says government’s decision to receive Justice Mpaphi Phumaphi’s report on Lesotho’s instability offers a window...

  ’Marafaele Mohloboli Basotho have vowed to continue “investing” in MMM Global—a pyramid scheme which has taken Lesotho by storm but has since been condemned...

  Police last week seized six unregistered firearms and 15 rounds of ammunition during their countrywide Stop-and-Search operation. Six knives, two stolen cars, three fighting...

  A 29-year-old Mohale’s Hoek man is in police custody after he allegedly had sex with a 13-year-old girl on several occasions and impregnating the...

  Pascalinah Kabi Two Leribe men are in police custody after they allegedly vandalised Vodacom Lesotho towers located in Ntloana-Tšoana in Berea last Friday. The...

  Billy Ntaote THE High Court has set 26 January 2016 as the date for hearing a case in which Court of Appeal President, Justice...

   Keiso Mohloboli Harvest FM owner ‘Malichaba Lekhoaba has decided to sell her radio station because she is tired of fighting the government. Ms Lekhoaba...

  Billy Ntaote PRIME Minister Pakalitha Mosisili’s coalition government “dodged a bullet” by reversing its position of not accepting the SADC Commission of Inquiry’s report...

  Keiso Mohloboli Basotho National Party (BNP) Deputy Leader Joang Molapo says Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili was “just buying time” when he addressed the nation...

  Tefo Tefo HIGH Court Acting Judge Justice Keketso Lesihla Moahloli yesterday ordered Brigadier Poqa Motoa’s release from solitary confinement in the Maseru Maximum Security...

  ’Marafaele Mohloboli Four men and one woman were shot dead in a bar in Ha Seoli on Monday evening. It is suspected the shooting...

  ’Marafaele Mohloboli The government has been warned to intervene and forestall the operations of a likely pyramid scheme run by a convicted Russian criminal,...

  Lekhetho Ntsukunyane The Prime Minister’s Political Advisor, Fako Likoti, was yesterday served with a letter of demand from Mahao family spokesperson, Lehloenya Mahao, who...

  …as drought takes toll on Lesotho ’Marafaele Mohloboli The majestic 192metre-high ’Maletsunyane Falls in Semonkong, Africa’s tallest and one of Lesotho’s main tourist attractions,...

  Lekhetho Ntsukunyane and Keiso Mohloboli The SADC troika on Politics, Defence and Security Cooperation chaired by Mozambique President Felipe Nyusi, is expected to meet...

  Pascalinah Kabi Government on Tuesday appointed three new principal secretaries (PSs) and reassigned three others to different ministries. Lefeu Ramone, Nchemo Maile and Lebohang...

  Tefo Tefo High Court Acting Judge Justice Keketso Lesihla Moahloli yesterday reserved judgment to next week in a case in which Brigadier Poqa Motoa...

  Board cites financial ‘irregularities’ in the indefinite suspension of MD and General Manager-Finance Pascalinah Kabi Lesotho Electricity Company (LEC) Managing Director Mbele Hoohlo and...

  Transfer US$12 million to Lesotho in two weeks or lose licence, says govt   Lekhetho Ntsukunyane Government has given Paragon Diamonds Limited a two-week...

  Staff Reporter Police are hunting down a syndicate suspected to be in possession of an undisclosed amount of fake  South African banknotes. Police spokesperson...

  Pascalinah Kabi Eight Mafeteng men aged between 16 and 28 allegedly abducted a 37-year-old woman on New Year’s day and took turns to rape...