Category : Local News

MASERU — Textile factory workers have requested parliament to urgently intervene and help improve their miserable working conditions and meagre wages.  Workers from five textile...

MASERU — A 27-year-old man, Matsoso Lieta, begged for mercy in court last Thursday saying he raped an 80-year-old woman after he had been overcome...

MASERU –– The police on Sunday stormed the home of an opposition legislator Molobeli Soulo  allegedly looking for arms, the Lesotho Times has learnt. Soulo...

MASERU ––  When ‘Makamohelo Tsietsi bid farewell to her son last Tuesday morning she did not know that by evening he would be lying unconscious...

MOHALE’S HOEK — All Basotho Convention (ABC) leader, Thomas Thabane, last Sunday appealed to church leaders mediating in the proportional representation seats issue to be...

MASERU — A 70-year-old British national, James Charles Thompson, was found dead in his house in Maseru West last Wednesday. A neighbour who spoke to...

MASERU — The bodies of two Mozambicans who died during a botched attack at Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili’s residence in Maseru last April were repatriated...

MASERU –– A strike called by workers at Lets’eng Diamond Mine collapsed on Monday after heavily armed soldiers stormed the mine. The workers are employed...

MASERU –– The editor-in-chief of the Monitor newspaper, Dr Rakoro Phororo, has died. Phororo died last Thursday during a private visit to London, England. He...

MASERU –– Libe Moremoholo was last Saturday overwhelmingly elected youth president of the main opposition All Basotho Convention (ABC) party. Moremoholo, 33, beat ABC youth...

MASERU –– The case in which Police Commissioner ‘Malejaka Letooane is asking the court to set aside or review her conviction on a charge of...

MASERU –– A 29-year-old police officer, Trooper Sehloho Raphael Lepelesana, died last Saturday after he allegedly drank poison. Police spokesman Senior Superintendent Mpota Nthako confirmed...

MASERU –– ‘Maseteta Mabeta stands next to a heap of maize, all that she harvested this year. Mabeta is from Motloheloa, a farming village in...

WELKOM — At least 137 Basotho are still locked up in South African jails after they were arrested for illegal mining activities, the Lesotho Times...

MASERU –– Pitso Maisa, the interim youth president of the All Basotho Convention (ABC) party, will have to battle it out with Libe Moremoholo at...

MASERU – The deputy attorney general Tsebang Putsoane has been roped into the ongoing fight between civil servants and money lenders over loan payments. More...

MASERU –Prominent lawyer Haae Phoofolo wants Police Commissioner Malejaka Letooane behind bars. Letooane was convicted of contempt of court last week and sentenced to six...

MASERU –– A strike called by National University of Lesotho (NUL) students ended yesterday after the National Manpower Developmental Secretariat (NMDS) paid their loans. The...

MASERU –– The Labour Appeal Court (LAC) has fined Lerotholi Polytechnic College and its director M80 000 for contempt of court after they failed to...

MASERU — Employees of Matekane Mining Investment Company (MMIC) a company sub-contracted by Lets’eng Diamond at its mine in Mokhotlong are planning to down tools...

MASERU –– The small stream that has provided water to the people of Tsénola’s village for a long time has run dry. For years this...

MASERU — High Court judge Thamsanqa Nomncongo this week lashed out at crown and defence lawyers for delaying proceedings in the trial of eight police...

MASERU — The Law Society of Lesotho has banned 65 lawyers from practising for failing to pay their annual subscription fees to the organisation. The...

MASERU — The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) last night tried to distance itself from the mess surrounding the allocation of proportional representation seats, sources who...

MASERU –– The Labour Appeal Court on Monday ordered Fahhida Cash & Carry to pay M405 000 to a group of former workers who were...

QEME  ––  All Basotho Convention (ABC) leader, Thomas Thabane, on Sunday said the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) was not a neutral arbiter in the dispute...

MASERU — A new aviation company on Monday introduced domestic flights to ferry passengers throughout Lesotho. The Mountain Airways Company will also provide cross-border flights...

MASERU — Lesotho’s only Sunday paper hits the streets this weekend, heralding a new era for the country’s nascent media industry. The Sunday Express will...

MASERU –– Two local firms are suing the Lesotho Mounted Police Service (LMPS) and the Ministry of Home Affairs for awarding a contract to supply...

MASERU –– The talks to resolve the dispute between government and the opposition over proportional representation seats were postponed yesterday after the mediator said he...