Revellers snub firecrackers ban
By ’Mantoetse Maama MASERU — Lesotho police’s foiled mission to ban the use of firecrackers for New Year’s Eve celebrations calls for concensus between police...
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Lehohla to chair IEC
Staff Reporters MASERU — Former Chief Justice Mahapela Lehohla has been appointed the new chairman of the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC), the all-too-powerful body...
Unclaimed bodies rot in morgues
By Tsitsi Matope MASERU — Seventy-six unclaimed corpses are rotting at Queen ‘Mamohato Memorial Hospital, the Lesotho Funeral Services and Martins Funeral Parlour raising...
Thabane reshuffles cabinet
By Billy Ntaote MASERU — The Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) has reshuffled its ministers in the coalition government. The reshuffle seems to have been...
SA deports 51 Basotho
By ‘Mantoetse Maama MASERU — Fifty-one Basotho men and women who have been working in South Africa illegally have been deported back to Lesotho. Most...
Monyake in a hole over Scott’s ‘arrest’
By Staff Reporter MASERU — Justice and Correctional Services Minister Mophato Monyake might have seriously misled cabinet and the entire nation over his claims that...
Lonmin helps families of Marikana massacre victims
By Limpho Sello MASERU — Mining conglomerate, Lonmin, has offered jobs to family members of four Basotho miners who died in August last year in...
Lesotho’s Marikana widows bare all
By Ntsebeng Motsoeli MASERU — A 25kg bag of maize meal, a 12.5kg of bread flour and groceries that include canned food, cooking oil and...
NUL in dispute over internet services bill
By Keiso Mohloboli MASERU — The National University of Lesotho (NUL) owes Telekom SA, a South African telephone network company, an estimated M1 143 000...
Housebreaking suspects arrested
By ‘Mantoetse Maama MASERU — Two men aged 29 and 33 were arrested this week for their alleged involvement in several housebreaking incidents where property...
Goodbye eventful 2013
Staff Reporter As the curtain comes down on 2013, we reflect on some of the stories that made headlines in the Kingdom this year. The...
Mandela family feud deepens – report
Mandla Mandela sidelined as Makaziwe ‘calls the shots’ The power struggle within the Mandela family has resulted in late former president Nelson Mandela’s eldest...
Nelson Mandela laid to rest
Former president Nelson Mandela’s family, heads of state, traditional leaders, members of the religious community and army generals looked on as his coffin was lowered...
LNDC boss suspended
By Bongiwe Zihlangu MASERU — Joshua Setipa, the chief executive officer of the Lesotho National Development Corporation (LNDC), has been suspended pending investigations into his...
Ghost workers’ fears prompt head count
By Ntsebeng Motsoeli MASERU — The Ministry of Public Service has begun an audit of the civil service to establish the exact number of workers...
Businessman fights extradition
By Nat Molomo MASERU — Businessman Jessie Ramakatane, who was allegedly involved in the June 2007 attacks on the houses of three cabinet ministers, wants...
Women fight for chieftainship
. . . mother-in-law says widow is a concubine By Keiso Mohloboli BEREA — A chieftainship squabble is raging in Berea district’s ‘Mamathe Ward (Sehlabeng)...
Call to revamp IEC
MASERU — Stakeholders attending a national conference to celebrate Lesotho’s 20 years of constitutional democracy have called for an overhaul of the Independent Electoral Commission...
Passport applications for miners eased
By Limpho Sello MASERU — The government has pledged to fast track the issuing of passports to Basotho working in South African mines. This follows...
Family, thousands of mourners visit Mandela’s casket
Nelson Mandela’s family, foreign dignatories and mourners paused at his open casket as he lay in state at the Union Buildings in Pretoria. Thousands of...
Graca says goodbye Madiba
Nelson Mandela’s coffin arrived at the Union Buildings on Wednesday morning after a solemn procession through the streets of Pretoria, with his family and world...
Mutiny case divides Thabane, Monyake
By Bongiwe Zihlangu MASERU — Serious discord has again flared up in the government with Prime Minister Thomas Thabane and Correctional Services Minister Mophato Monyake...
Dark horses excel on IEC scorecard
By Billy Ntaote and Letuka Chafotsa MASERU — Local political analyst Nchafatso Sello and former English Language teacher Maieane Khaketla have topped a list of...
‘No more leg-irons for fugitive soldier’
By Nat Molomo MASERU — Second Lt Thabang Phaila, a Lesotho Defence Force (LDF) member charged with mutiny over the 1998 post-electoral riots, has been...
Gun battle leaves 3 dead
By Ntsebeng Motsoeli BEREA — Three South African men aged 35, 36 and 53 died in a shoot-out with security forces after attempting to rob...
Five arrested over fake money
By ‘Mantoetse Maama MASERU — A police officer and four other men have been arrested after they were found in possession of counterfeit South African...
Students pay heavy price for budget error
By Tsitsi Matope MASERU — Thabana-Li-Mele and ‘Matheko Vocational Training Centres in Maseru and Thaba-Tseka are still not providing training services since last year after...
Vodacom Foundation to launch bigger projects
By Tsitsi Matope MASERU — The Vodacom Lesotho Foundation will intensify its corporate social investment activities next year with the introduction of two major projects...
CCJP to petition PM on gender violence
By Limpho Sello MASERU — Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace (CCJP) will tomorrow march to petition Prime Minister Thomas Thabane and government Ministries to...
‘Education key part of prisoner rehabilitation’
By Ntsebeng Motsoeli MASERU — Crime Prevention, Rehabilitation and Reintegration of Ex-prisoners president, Nkalimeng Mothobi, has applauded the Lesotho Correctional Services (LCS) for introducing academic...