Category : Local News

MASERU — The Metolong Authority yesterday signed two contracts worth US$80.352 million (about M642 824 365) for the Downstream Conveyance System that will transport water...

MAPUTSOE — Reflex Footwear Manufacturers denied its 220 workers their right to vote by forcing them to go to work during local government election on...

MASERU — Four days after the local government poll, the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) was still struggling to release the final results triggering fears the...

MASERU — Basotho National Party (BNP) leader Thesele ‘Maseribane could be jailed for contempt of court for failing to convene a special conference in August....

MASERU — Court of Appeal president Justice Michael Ramodibedi this week refused to recuse himself from a case in which three members of the ruling...

MASERU — Just M610 a month. This is what general workers are earning at retail giant Shoprite Supermarket in Maseru. This week emotions boiled over...

MASERU — A police assistant and nine other men were arrested in Ha Thetsane last week for car theft. Police spokesperson Masupha Masupha said the...

MASERU — King Letsie III has appointed Justice Noel Victor Hurt to the Lesotho Court of Appeal bench. Court of Appeal president, Justice Michael Ramodibedi,...

MASERU — Somewhere in Ha-Thamae, 30-year-old Tšepo (not his real name) is busy with some friends unloading concrete bricks from a truck. They engage in...

FICKSBURG — A nine-year-old boy was crushed to death on Sunday when their house collapsed after a tornado hit Moqheleng, an informal settlement in the...

MASERU — Textile workers unions and employers have agreed to call an International Labour Organisation (ILO) expert following a stalemate over salary negotiations. Lesotho factory...

MASERU — Lesotho’s new biggest referral health centre, Tšepong Hospital, opened its doors to patients on Saturday. The M1.2 billion centre, situated in Lepereng just...

MASERU — The Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) youth league is reportedly seeking a police permit to march to Communications Minister Mothetja Metsing’s office as...

MASERU — The state-funded funeral of the assistant minister Lekhetho Phakisi in July 2007 seems to have provided a platform for some civil servants to...

MASERU — The relentless pressure being exerted on Mothetjoa Metsing suggests that the end is nigh for the ruling Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) party...

MASERU — Lesotho on Tuesday launched an internet-based law reporting facility that will allow the judiciary to collect and publish legal information online. Speaking at...

MASERU — The High Court has awarded M40 000 in damages to a taxi driver who was suing the commissioner of police for unlawful arrest...

MASERU — The government is rationalising school fees in all public secondary and high schools starting from January next year, Education Minister ’Mamphono Khaketla said...

MASERU — Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili says the United Nations must help Libyans set up an all-inclusive government instead of allowing a few countries with...

MASERU — Education Minister ’Mamphono Khaketla on Friday won back custody of her late father’s estate after the High Court ruled that agreements entered by...

MASERU — Dairy farmers have stopped selling milk to the Lesotho Dairy Products (LDP) company in protest over payment delays, the Lesotho Times has learnt....

MASERU — The Lesotho National Federation of Organisations of the Disabled (LNFOD) says people with disabilities are getting a raw deal from the police and...

MASERU — The government has released 303 prisoners to ease congestion in the country’s main prisons. The prisoners were released on September 16, according to...

MASERU — The ruling Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) party has failed to unveil its local government elections manifesto owing to internal wrangles, the Lesotho...

MASERU — A traffic officer who solicited a bribe from a taxi owner appeared in the Mohale’s Hoek Magistrate’s Court on Thursday to answer a...

MASERU — Unions at Limkokwing University of Creative Technology (LUCT) want the director of academics, ’Mamolete Mohapi, who resigned last week reinstated with immediate effect....

MASERU — The world class white diamond discovered at Letšeng Mine in Mokhotlong last month was on Monday named the Letšeng Star. The 550 carat...