Category : Local News

MASERU — A Maseru man, Nyakasela Tetsa, is suing Police Commissioner ‘Malejaka Letooane for M49 591 after he was assaulted by two police officers two...

MASERU — Six schools in Maseru took part in a tree planting and cleaning campaign at Lesotho High School last Friday. The campaign was organised...

MASERU — A 48-year-old man from Ha-Jobo in Thaba-Bosiu was on Tuesday slapped with a 15-year jail term without an option of a fine for...

MASERU — A senior Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) official, Sam Mashinini, on Saturday lambasted factory owners in Lesotho for paying “pitiable” salaries...

 MASERU — Two magistrates on Tuesday pleaded not guilty to charges of defeating the ends of justice after they set free an alleged fraudster five...

METOLONG — There are rumblings of discontent in Metolong, a village about 30 kilometres north-east of Maseru. Metolong is the site of the giant Metolong...

MASERU — The executive and Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) have played a major role in undermining the administration of justice, an opposition MP has...

MASERU — Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili yesterday said youths have a key role to play in the development of the country. Mosisili was speaking at...

MASERU — Opposition MPs drove Youth Minister ‘Mathabiso Lepono to the brink of tears with hostile responses after she announced the launch of the National...

MASERU — A former accountant of the Lesotho Highlands Development Authority (LHDA), Peggy Thakeli, will spend the next eight years behind bars after the Court...

MASERU — A Lesotho Defence Force (LDF) soldier will spend the next decade in prison after the Court of Appeal on Friday upheld his two...

MASERU — A 64-year-old man from Ha-‘Masana last week told the Maseru Magistrate’s Court that the 160 marijuana plants that police had found in his...

THABA-BOSIU — It all started as an experiment in 1997. Pule (not his real name) was just 12. An experimental sip of the ‘holy waters’...

MASERU — A National Security Services (NSS) secret agent and his wife were on Tuesday each sentenced to four years in prison for robbery. The...

MASERU — The Road Safety Department says it will today launch a new driver training and examination system in an effort to reduce fatalities on...

MASERU — Khauhelo Ralitapole, the leader of the Basutoland African Congress (BAC), says she is stepping down “to make way for new blood”, the Lesotho...

MASERU — Parliament this week agreed to postpone the local government elections by twelve months after it passed the Local Government (Amendment) Bill 2010. The...

MASERU — The race for the May 22 by-election has kicked off in the Mpharane constituency in Mohale’s Hoek. Seven candidates — three independents and...

  MASERU — High Court judge ’Maseforo Mahase on Monday withdrew from a civil case in which Police Commissioner ’Malejaka Letooane is facing trial for...

MASERU — The Court of Appeal last Friday postponed a case between civil servants and money lending firms to October to allow the two parties...

MASERU — In 2006, 44-year-old Lekhokoho Kokome was on the verge of despair. Two years earlier Kokome had been diagnosed with HIV, the virus that...

MASERU — When Macaefa Billy walks into the dock next Friday his fate will not be in his hands. Neither will it be in the...

MASERU — The chief economic planner for the Ministry of Agriculture came under attack from members of the community parliament over the government’s failure to...

BATTLE lines are drawn in the impoverished rural constituency of Hololo, about 130km north of the capital Maseru. The nine candidates — four independents and...

BUTHA-BUTHE — Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) women’s league boss, ‘Mathabiso Lepono, last Sunday launched a scathing attack on opposition leader Thomas Thabane describing him...

MASERU — A Maseru lawyer, Advocate Nketsi Makhera, who is facing a M500 000 theft charge for illegally selling a textile firm, was freed on...

MASERU — Prosperity Insurance Brokers wants the Central Bank of Lesotho (CBL) to reverse its decision to revoke its operating licence which was cancelled last...

MASERU — Two women from Ha-Ts’iu appeared in the Magistrate’s Court on Monday charged with abducting an infant in January. ‘Mathuso Ntiese, 58, and ‘Maselebalo...

MASERU — A South African pilot working in Lesotho will rue the day he asked a stranger to help him withdraw money from an ATM...

MASERU — Deafening music pumps from two powerful speakers in a makeshift stall along Kingsway Street in Maseru. On the stall is a huge assortment...