Category : Local News

  Deputy premier says religious leaders only answer to Lesotho’s political woes Billy Ntaote DEPUTY Prime Minister (DPM) Mothetjoa Metsing says Lesotho should establish an...

  DCEO wants to know who deposited M446 000 into deputy premier’s Standard Lesotho Bank and Nedbank Lesotho accounts between April 2013 and January 2014...

  Takes on DCEO in his ongoing corruption probe   Tefo Tefo DEPUTY Prime Minister (DPM) Mothetjoa Metsing wants the Constitutional Court to declare the...

Tefo Tefo THE Ministry of Home Affairs obtained an urgent court order on Friday last week, to interdict Nikuv International Projects (NIP) from disrupting or...

Assistant Commissioner Ezekiel Senti suspended indefinitely for allegedly leaking confidential information to the media   Keiso Mohloboli The Lesotho Mounted Police Service (LMPS) Assistant Commissioner,...

Keiso Mohloboli TWO female nurses were found dead in a donga in Ha Mosalla village on Tuesday this week, in what detectives said was one...

Bongiwe Zihlangu The Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) is today expected to officially terminate an agreement the party signed on June 11 this year with...

Limpho Sello EIGHTEEN United States Peace Corps were sworn in yesterday by the US Chargé d’Affaires John McNamara during a ceremony held in Ha-Taaso in...

Tefo Tefo THE court martial trying suspended Lesotho Defence Force (LDF) Brigadier, Maaparankoe Mahao, has been postponed by one week as one member of the...

Tefo Tefo ACTING Chief Justice Tšeliso Monaphathi has ordered the prosecution to provide former Energy, Meteorology and Water Affairs Minister, Timothy Thahane with statements of...

Limpho Sello Two Ha Hoohlo families have been given a “last warning and chance” to vacate their homes by Monday next week by the new...

  . . . as govt grapples with M38m debt Staff Reporters PRODUCTION of new passports for Basotho will stop next week unless the government...

Letuka Chafotsa The Office of the Auditor General has released a draft audit of the Lesotho Durban Consulate for the financial years 2009/10 to May...

Keiso Mohloboli A faction within the Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) is pushing for the dismissal of party leader Mothetjoa Metsing and is behind the...

Billy Ntaote WASHINGTON DC — The American government’s Global AIDS Coordinator, Deborah Birx, says Lesotho needs to do more if the country is to win...

Tefo Tefo Three Members of Parliament (MPs) who filed an urgent application in the High Court to block a parliamentary motion to unseat Prime Minister...

’Mantoetse Maama Maseru experienced a slight tremor on Tuesday this week at around lunchtime, sparking anxious phone-calls between relatives and colleagues. However, not many in...

  Dr Thabane’s daughter launches spirited defence of her father after the prime minister is accused of abusing state resources on his partner   Keiso...

Billy Ntaote WASHINGTON DC — Prime Minister Thomas Thabane was among 400 guests who attended a special dinner hosted by American President Barack Obama at...

  . . . as LCD delegates refuse to back down over demands to end prorogation of parliament  Billy Ntaote The coalition government began its...

Tefo Tefo The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Leaba Thetsane (King’s Counsel) yesterday pleaded with the High Court to impose the death penalty on 44-year-old...

  Home Affairs minister says the BNP, LCD and ABC can “comfortably” win the next parliamentary election in 2017 should they decide  to merge and...

Keiso Mohloboli A 50-YEAR-OLD man was found dead on a farm in Sehlabeng sa Thuathe on Sunday morning. According to the District Commissioner of Maseru...

  . . . Country off-track on four of the eight international development targets Ntsebeng Motsoeli PRIME Minister Thomas Thabane yesterday said it was disturbing...

‘Mantoetse Maama Three men who allegedly bombed the Standard Lesotho Bank Automated Teller Machine (ATM) located in the Maseru Industrial Area on 4 July, surrendered...

Tsitsi Matope The Minister of Home Affairs, Joang Molapo says there is need to deal with “demons of the past”, which have resulted in the...

Keiso Mohloboli The Christian Council of Lesotho (CCL) fired its general secretary, Thabiso Mokobori, this week for allegedly using a fake degree to get a...

  This man has been prime minister before and it’s shocking he thinks the people can trust him with running this country again after letting...

  . . . beat up presenter and ransack Ha-Mabote based radio station Keiso Mohloboli Four unidentified men stormed Tšenolo FM yesterday morning and attacked...