Category : Local News

MASERU – The Lithoteng police are alleged to have severely battered a theft suspect, detained him in holding cells for four days and demanded that...

MASERU — Seven men suspected to be members of a group that attacked army barracks and attempted to assassinate Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili in April...

Party owned newspapers in Africa have never been known for incisive reportage but that does not mean they should be pathetic Pravdas full of tosh....

  MASERU — Two men aged 59 and 60 were beaten to death by members of a rogue community crime prevention committee in Phororong in...

MASERU – The All Basotho Convention (ABC) party has pledged to empower local councils to deliver better services to the people if it wins local...

MASERU – Junior police officers who hold university degrees have dragged Police Commissioner ’Malejaka Letooane to the High Court for allegedly refusing to promote and...

What do you do when you find out that your monthly grocery is running into tens of thousands of maloti yet your favourite food is...

MASERU – Opposition parties have ganged up against a new Bill that seeks to change the laws governing National Assembly elections in Lesotho. The Lesotho...

MASERU — The days of people refusing to settle genuine claims on the basis that those who seek damages have not lodged their claims on...

MASERU – The High Court has reserved judgment to next week in an application in which an army captain wants the Lesotho Defence Force (LDF)...

MASERU — The National Aids Commission (NAC) this week said Lesotho’s HIV prevalence rate has slightly decreased over the past two years. NAC on Tuesday...

MAFETENG – Police have launched a crackdown on famo gangs that are blamed for dozens of murders in Mafeteng district. More than 100 famo artistes...

MASERU – The government will not hire personnel to fill new posts because of the scarcity of funds, according to Finance Minister Timothy Thahane. Thahane...

MASERU — The government has set up a M50-million credit guarantee scheme to help small, micro and medium enterprises (SMMEs), Finance Minister Timothy Thahane (pictured...

MASERU — Finance Minister Timothy Thahane says the government is unlikely to meet its Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015. Addressing parliament during the 2011/12...

The good thing about democracy is that it dictates that everyone must be listened to. That’s fair. Its downside however is that sometimes we just...

MASERU – The High Court has rejected an attempt by two members of the Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) party to be included as respondents...

MASERU – The Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) youth league has alleged that the five party members seeking to block the special conference are pawns...

MASERU – Opposition parties have rejected a proposal to incorporate civil society groups into a special body to be formed by the Independent Electoral Commission...

MASERU — The home affairs principal secretary says there is nothing wrong in using a selective tender process to identify firms that could produce Lesotho’s...

MASERU — The police are offering a whopping M2 million to anyone who can supply information that could help unlock four high-profile murder cases. They...

MASERU — The selective tender process adopted by the government for Lesotho’s e-passports is in stark contrast to the process used by the Millennium Challenge...

Dear Honourable Prime Minister Mosisili, WITH revenues from the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) that have long accounted for a greater portion of Lesotho’s income...

MASERU – The government of Lesotho is in the process of introducing electronic passports. An electronic passport, also known as biometric passport, looks like a...

MASERU – Selective tendering, like the one the Lesotho government has just been engaged in to search for firms which will produce electronic passports, has...

MASERU – A Bill seeking to change the country’s electoral law has triggered an uproar from opposition parties. The opposition parties say the National Assembly...

MASERU — When news broke last week that prominent businessman Osman Moosa and his son Shameen were facing 180 charges of dodging tax Moosa said...

MASERU – Chief Justice Mahapela Lehohla has blamed the courts’ failure to reduce the backlog of criminal cases on the establishment of a new unit...

MASERU — Opposition leaders say they will call for the ouster of Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) chairperson, Limakatso Mokhothu, if she insists on postponing local...