Category : Local News

MASERU — More than half of all children in Lesotho are living in absolute poverty. This is according to the latest figures released by the...

MASERU — MKM liquidators have warned of tough times ahead amid fears the company’s directors could seek to throw spanners into the liquidation process. The...

MASERU — Talks aimed at breaking the impasse between management and lecturers at the National University of Lesotho (NUL) ended in deadlock on Monday, the...

MASERU — Lesotho’s police abducted and tortured a Mosotho man before illegally handing him over to South Africa to stand trial for unlawful escape and...

MASERU — Police on Sunday shot dead a Mafeteng man who was wanted in connection with the murder of two famo musicians earlier this year....

MASERU — The All Basotho Convention (ABC) party has appointed little-known Koro-Koro constituency member Thabiso Lits’iba as the party’s new secretary general. Lits’iba, 56, who...

MASERU — Former All Basotho Convention (ABC) secretary general Macaefa Billy has reacted angrily to allegations that he was sacked from the party after he...

MASERU — Global Fund has withheld M4.5 million in funding to the Lesotho Youth Federation (Lyfe) following differences between the group and its overseeing partner,...

MASERU — The High Court on Tuesday ordered two men to pay M30 000 in compensation to the family of a man they killed in...

MASERU — The government this week threatened to clamp down on retailers who are inflating the price of fuel gas. In a statement this week,...

MASERU — The late principal secretary for the Ministry of Agriculture, Mohale Sekoto, was holding a white rosary in his left hand and a 9...

MASERU — Pressure is mounting on Osman Moosa a prominent businessman convicted of tax dodging, to step down as chairman of the Private Sector Foundation...

MASERU — The National Manpower Development Secretariat (NMDS) says if the National University of Lesotho (NUL) remains closed it will soon stop giving food and...

MASERU — Lectures at Limkokwing University of Creative Technology (LUCT) are set to resume next week after the university brought in expatriate staff this week....

MASERU — The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) will conduct by-elections on November 26 in 18 councils where voting did not happen or failed to produce...

MASERU — The First National Bank (FNB) has applied for absolution from a case in which it is being sued for humiliating and instigating the...

MASERU — The Chinese Embassy in Lesotho yesterday gave M150 000 to the office of the First Lady to help orphans and vulnerable children throughout...

MASERU — A Thaba-Tseka farmer who killed his neighbour 14 years ago finally appeared in the High Court on Tuesday to answer a charge of...

MASERU — A 30-year-old old woman from Thaba-Bosiu is expected to appear in court soon to answer charges of concealment of birth. Police spokesperson Masupha...

MASERU — A new party seeking to unify Lesotho and South Africa was launched in Maseru on Tuesday. The African Unity Movement (AUM) says it...

MASERU — The Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) youth league secretary general, Lebaka Bulane, has accused four government ministries of “plundering Lesotho into further poverty”....

MASERU — A 35-year-old woman from Berea Plateau can now sleep at ease after last week’s arrest of an uncle who had allegedly tried to...

MASERU — A coalition of trade unions yesterday said they want Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili to fire two government ministers for alleged incompetence. The coalition...

MASERU — A six-year-old girl died after she fell in a pond in Borokhoaneng in Maseru on Saturday. Matšeliso Lisene and her playmates had gone...

MASERU — Mothetjoa Metsing, the secretary general of the ruling Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) party, says the High Court application seeking to compel the...

MASERU — A man who raped his seven-year-old stepdaughter started serving an effective 15 years in jail on Monday. Mokete Khotle, 31, of Morija Ha...

MASERU — Chief Justice Mahapela Lehohla yesterday paid tribute to former Law Society of Lesotho president Khauoe Thabang Khauoe who died two weeks ago. Khauoe,...