Category : Local News

MASERU — The Basotho National Party (BNP) enthusiasts were barred from visiting the late Prime Minister Leabua Jonathan’s widow two weeks ago. Together with their...

MASERU — The constituencies of the Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) demanding a special conference that will decide whether Pakalitha Mosisili and his National Executive...

MASERU — Agriculture minister Ralechate ’Mokose’s second attempt to fire the Lesotho National Dairy Board (LNDB) chief executive, Selematsela Montši, hit a brick wall last...

MASERU — A coalition of traders, labour unions and civil society has threatened to orgainse a national demonstration if Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili does not...

MASERU — The Law Society of Lesotho has refused to condemn the Chief Justice of Swaziland, Michael Ramodibedi, for the way he handled the suspension...

MASERU — The Lesotho Defence Force (LDF)’s Air Wing Squadron abandoned a mission to rescue people trapped in snow in the mountains last Tuesday after...

MASERU — Three opposition parties have asked the government to consider pushing the local council polls, scheduled for October 1, to early next year. The...

MASERU — The Lesotho Highlands Development Authority (LHDA) is investigating its officials allegedly producing fake documents to help resettled communities claim compensation they do not...

MASERU — The adjudication of the multi-million dollar identity cards tender was thrown into further turmoil this week after a Malaysian company appealed a decision...

MASERU — A woman who was last month fingered in the alleged theft of over M20 million from the National Drug Service Organisation (NDSO) five...

MASERU — The Lesotho Council of Non-governmental Organisations (LCN) on Tuesday deployed 600 electoral educators countrywide to teach voters how to cast their votes in...

MASERU — A courageous 42-year-old woman from Mohale’s Hoek managed to fend off a suspected rapist by biting off his tongue as he tried to...

MASERU — One person died and eight others were seriously injured after a minibus taxi they were travelling in crushed into a wall at Maseru...

MASERU — One of the nine men on trial for the April 2009 failed coup and attempt to assassinate Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili has died....

MASERU – Lesotho’s voters’ roll, which is said to be inflated by over a 100 000 ghost voters, has left opposition parties sharply divided. A...

MASERU — The High Court this week dismissed an application by MKM provisional liquidators to ask the registrar of the High Court to keep rentals...

MASERU — A police officer was arrested on Thursday for allegedly killing a famo musician in Mohale’s Hoek last year. Makhaula Hlakane, 35, was gunned...

MASERU — The Lesotho Dairy Products (LDP) is allegedly in financial doldrums which has seen it fail to pay dairy farmers over the past two...

MASERU — A former soldier who killed his wife’s alleged lover after he found the two in a compromising position at a local lodge was...

MASERU — Fifty-four prisoners in Lesotho’s jails were set free on Monday in a general amnesty. The prisoners were granted amnesty by King Letsie III...

MASERU — Education Minister ‘Mamphono Khaketla says 15 percent of children of primary school-going age are out of school. According to government regulations children aged...

MASERU — The multi-million dollar identity document (ID) cards tender is in jeopardy once again. The Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) Lesotho has suspended the adjudication...

MASERU —  Ramootsi Lehata, who as assistant agriculture minister admitted owing millions of maloti to the government’s block farming scheme, has been promoted to become...

MASERU — A former female soldier is suing the commander of the Lesotho Defence Force (LDF) and the Minister of Defence for M2 million after...

ROMA — Professor Sharon Siverts, the National University of Lesotho (NUL) Vice-Chancellor, has blamed staff indiscipline for the “higher than normal failure rate”. Siverts made...

ROMA — Professor Sharon Siverts says she hopes the Lesotho University Teachers and Researchers Union (Lutaru) will cancel their strike planned for next month and...

ROMA — National University of Lesotho (NUL) Vice-Chancellor Professor Sharon Siverts says the university owes M34 million worth of leave days to its nearly 2...