Category : Local News

Limpho Sello Lesotho has declared Coronavirus a health emergency and the Ministry of Health has begun the necessary processes of mobilising human and other resources...

infighting forces party to postpone vote and announcement of successor Thabane threatens to appoint own successor ’Marafaele Mohloboli BARELY three weeks after All Basotho Convention...

Staff Reporter THREE candidates namely, ’Matebatso Doti, Samuel Rapapa and Nkaku Kabi, have emerged as the frontrunners in the ruling All Basotho Convention (ABC)’s internal...

Silence Charumbira EUROPEAN Union (EU) Ambassador to Lesotho, Christian Manahl, has urged Prime Minister Thomas Thabane to announce a specific date for his impending retirement,...

Pascalinah Kabi ONE of the companies in the Tšepong Consortium, Afri’nnai Health, has accused South Africa’s Netcare Group of siphoning millions of maloti from the...

Mohalenyane Phakela MURDER-ACCUSED former army commander, Lieutenant General (Lt-Gen) Tlali Kamoli, and others yesterday lost their application for the recusal of Judge Charles Hungwe from...

Mohalenyane Phakela GENDER, Sports and Recreation Minister, Mahali Phamotse, was on Tuesday charged with corruption for allegedly influencing the awarding of a 2015 high schools...

Bereng Mpaki A LABOUR union has applied for default judgement in the case in which 24 workers are challenging their dismissal by medical cannabis producer,...

Bereng Mpaki A SOUTH African fuel company, Eriksons Motor Centre, has threatened to seize the property of Lesotho Consulate in Welkom over its alleged failure...

fearful villagers petition Thabane over “cattle-rustling” SA soldiers Ntsebeng Motsoeli MAKHOAKHOENG villagers in Butha-Buthe district say they are living in fear of officers of the...

Herbert Moyo AT least 71 000 out of the half a million food insecure Basotho are “one step away from famine”, the UN Office for...

’Marafaele Mohloboli FINANCE Minister Moeketsi Majoro says he will soon appoint “a third party” to investigate fraud and other allegations that have been raised against...

no indication when the job will begin as January deadline looms Ntsebeng Motsoeli DESPITE repeated assurances from senior health ministry officials, the demolition of Queen...

Herbert Moyo/Bataung Moeketsi DESPITE beginning its reign with so much promise in the aftermath of its victory in the 3 June 2017 elections, Prime Minister...

Staff Reporter FIRST Lady, ’Maesaiah Thabane, on Saturday suffered a huge blow in her bid to stop the police from arresting her in connection with...

’Marafaele Mohloboli THE Professor Nqosa Mahao-led faction of the ruling All Basotho Convention (ABC) has upheld the suspension of party leader and Prime Minister, Thomas...

’Marafaele Mohloboli THE Assistant Registrar of the High Court and Appeal Court Advocate Mosito Rabotsoa recently escaped death by a whisker when a trigger-happy Lesotho...

Ntsebeng Motsoeli OPPOSITION Democratic Congress (DC) leader Mathibeli Mokhothu has warned that they will not pass next year’s budget unless the Speaker of Parliament, Sephiri...

former minister Thotanyana distances himself from new party ’Marafaele Mohloboli SOME disgruntled members of the All Basotho Convention (ABC) have ditched the party’s deputy leader,...

three officers murder Naleli man angry mob beats up, burn corpse of alleged killer-rapist ’Marafaele Mohloboli POLICE are investigating a case in which three of...

Staff Reporter FARMERS have resumed exporting their wool and mohair through the South African broker, BKB (Pty) Ltd, amid revelations that two trucks have successfully...

Compiled by Herbert Moyo January 2019 ABC and DC infighting MUCH like the year before, 2019 was very eventful in the history of Lesotho. The...

he will have his day in court, Minister Phori says Mohalenyane Phakela/Silence Charumbira SMALL Business Development, Cooperatives and Marketing Minister, Chalane Phori, and Home Affairs...

but govt still has to address governance concerns before funds are released Herbert Moyo LESOTHO has received a major boost after the United States Millennium...

delays to cost M8 billion Herbert Moyo A SOUTH African non-governmental organisation has released a damning report on the Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP Phase...

Lesotho not benefiting enough from its water deals with SA Mohalenyane Phakela COMMUNICATIONS MINISTER, Thesele ‘Maseribane, has called on the Lesotho and South African governments...

as Metsing abandons electoral pact with Mokhothu Ntsebeng Motsoeli FORMER Deputy Prime Minister Mothetjoa Metsing’s Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) says its election alliance with...