Metsing speaks on fallout with Thabane
’Marafaele Mohloboli FORMER Deputy Prime Minister Mothetjoa Metsing has attributed his fallout with the coalition partner and current Prime Minister Thomas Thabane to disagreements over...
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Judge Monapathi speaks
slams executive interference in judiciary demands abolishment of the PM’s powers to appoint judges says impeachments bids against Ramodibedi, Mosito and Majara all political Mohalenyane...
Magistrates sue govt over “poor salaries and benefits”
say they have lost hope in govt ever resolving their decades-old plight Nat Molomo | Mohalenyane Phakela THE gloves are officially off after the country’s...
Mahao rejects ambassadorial post
Pascalinah Kabi EMBATTLED All Basotho Convention (ABC) leader and Prime Minister Thomas Thabane offered to deploy his estranged party deputy, Nqosa Mahao, as ambassador to...
Businessmen charged over govt fleet tender
Mohalenyane Phakela THE Directorate of Corruption and Economic Offences (DCEO) yesterday charged businessmen, Teboho Tlokotsi and Tumo Ramonaheng, with corruption in the procurement of the...
Mokhothu criticises govt’s debt culture
Ntsebeng Motsoeli DEMOCRATIC Congress (DC) leader, Mathibeli Mokhothu, has criticised the Thomas Thabane administration for worsening the country’s debt burden to fund vanity projects. Mr...
LCS accused of violating detained soldier’s rights
Mohalenyane Phakela A LAWYER representing murder-accused army officer, Major Pitso Ramoepana, has accused Lesotho Correctional Services (LCS) of violating his rights by denying him food...
BNP won’t recall Molapo from govt
Pascalinah Kabi TOURISM, Environment and Culture Minister Joang Molapo who recently lost the Basotho National Party (BNP)’s deputy leader’s post to former party spokesperson, Machesetsa...
Lawyers’ no show riles judge
Mohalenyane Phakela The attempted murder trial of former army commander Lieutenant General Tlali Kamoli and his accomplices over the 27 January 2014 simultaneous bombings of...
PS implicates First Lady in dodgy M340 million tender
Pascalinah Kabi A PRINCIPAL Secretary has sensationally claimed that First Lady, ‘Maesaiah Thabane, directed that a lucrative M340 million Mpilo Boulevard tender be awarded to...
No confidence vote in limbo
as DC threatens to withdraw its support for Thabane’s ouster Pascalinah Kabi THE country’s biggest opposition party, the Democratic Congress (DC) has threatened to withdraw...
DPP attacks DCEO boss over fleet tender claims
Ntsebeng Motsoeli THE Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Hlalefang Motinyane, has rubbished allegations by the Directorate on Criminal and Economic Offences (DCEO) Director General, Mahlomola...
Repeal wool and mohair law, parly tells govt
Mohalenyane Phakela PARLIAMENT has found that the wool and mohair regulations of 2018 have impoverished thousands of Basotho and called on the government to immediately...
Metsing blames Thabane for Mahao’s assassination
’Marafaele Mohloboli LESOTHO Congress for Democracy (LCD) leader, Mothetjoa Metsing, has bizarrely blamed the murders of army commander Maaparankoe Mahao and Police Sub Inspector Mokheseng...
Govt has gone to the dogs: Mahao
Ntsebeng Motsoeli ‘ACTING’ All Basotho Convention (ABC) leader, Professor Nqosa Mahao, says the government under Prime Minister Thomas Thabane “is going to the dogs” and...
Victory for Mahase
Mohalenyane Phakela ACTING Chief Justice, ‘Maseforo Mahase, yesterday won her Constitutional Court bid for the recusal of all local judges from presiding over All Basotho...
M65 million govt debt cripples LEC
Bereng Mpaki THE Lesotho Electricity Company (LEC) is owed an estimated M65 million in unpaid bills by different government ministries for the current financial year....
Villagers’ health in danger from dumpsite
Limpho Sello VILLAGERS living near the Ha-Tšosane dumpsite fear they could have contracted respiratory and other infections after the dumpsite recently caught fire which lasted...
Molapo, Machesetsa face off in BNP polls
Pascalinah Kabi/Nat Molomo THE Basotho National Party (BNP) says its national executive committee (NEC) elections will go ahead this weekend despite a fresh High Court...
Date set for Scott verdict
Mohalenyane Phakela DOUBLE ritual murder suspect, Lehlohonolo Scott, will have to wait until 12 February 2020 to know his fate. This after High Court judge...
Wage relief for Village Health Workers
Pascalinah Kabi ‘MAHLOMPHO is living proof of the adage that one is never too small to make a difference. ‘Mahlompho started out as a volunteer...
Habitat, Standard Bank rescue Leribe family
Bataung Moeketsi STANDARD Lesotho Bank and Habitat for Humanity Lesotho this week handed over a two-roomed house to 70-year-old ‘Majoalane Maphatšoe and her four orphaned...
Legislators flex muscles against PM
Unanimously approve motion to curtail PM’s powers to dissolve parly In first step towards ousting Thabane Ntsebeng Motsoeli IN a rare show of unity,...
Lesotho risks losing out on second MCC compact
Pascalinah Kabi LESOTHO risks losing out on the multi-billion-maloti second compact under the United States sponsored Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) after American Ambassador to Lesotho...
DCEO chief investigator ‘spills the beans’
alleges he was suspended for investigating DCEO boss’ powerful friends mentions First Lady in the sacking of former DCEO boss Matsoso Ntsebeng Motsoeli SUSPENDED Directorate...
DCEO stops Mpilo Boulevard tender
’Marafaele Mohloboli THE Director General of the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Offences (DCEO), Mahlomola Manyokole, has ordered the Maseru City Council (MCC) to stop...
Govt, Justice Majara agree on exit package
Herbert Moyo THE government and suspended Chief Justice Nthomeng Majara have agreed an out-of-court settlement which will see the latter leave office without undergoing a...
Liqhobong rakes in US$10, 6 million from first quarter sales
Bataung Moeketsi LIQHOBONG Diamond Mine realised US$10, 6 million from the sale of 168 612 carats worth of diamonds in the first quarter of its...
Econet improves EcoSure packages
Nthatuoa Koeshe ECONET Telecom Lesotho (ETL) and the Lesotho National Life Assurance Company have upgraded their insurance policy from EcoSure Mpolokeng to EcoSure Re Bolokehile....
Mokhothu pushes for Thabane’s ouster
’Marafaele Mohloboli OPPOSITION Democratic Congress leader, Mathibeli Mokhothu, says he has nothing personal against Prime Minister Thomas Thabane and his bid to topple him is...