Category : Local News

hospital can no longer diagnose serious illnesses, carry out autopsies or issue proper scripts  once prestigious facility now resembles a “mere district hospital” Kaleen Chikowore...

. . . Sakoane to decide whether to strike 87 civil cases off the roll Mohalenyane Phakela  CHIEF Justice Sakoane Sakoane will today hold a...

Mohalenyane Phakela / Pascalinah Kabi THE ruling Democratic Congress (DC) and fellow congress parties have threatened to go to court to stop the Independent Electoral...

Staff Writer THE United Kingdom (UK)’s Minister for Africa, Vicky Ford, jetted into the country yesterday for her maiden visit aimed at strengthening relationships between...

Nthatuoa Koeshe CONSUMERS will have to dig deeper into their pockets to pay for electricity with effect from tomorrow. This after the Lesotho Electricity and...

Bereng Mpaki COMPUTER Business Solutions (CBS) yesterday won four awards at this year’s edition of the PMR Africa Awards. The digital solutions company was named...

Limpho Sello LESOTHO has comfortably surpassed the World Health Organisation (WHO)’s target for countries to have jabbed at least 10 percent of their people against...

…as rampant looting threatens to derail hosting of international sports tourney Pascalinah Kabi / Moorosi Tsiane TWO senior managers in the Ministry of Gender, Youth,...

Mohalenyane Phakela ELEVEN soldiers currently facing mutiny charges have accused army commander, Mojalefa Letsoela, of launching irregular proceedings against them to ensure that they are...

. . . as woman is killed for M20 ’Marafaele Mohloboli LESOTHO has been rocked by two more violent and gruesome killings of women. One...

Bereng Mpaki THE Water and Sewerage Company (WASCO) CEO, Futho Hoohlo, has been fired with effect from 21 September 2021. WASCO spokesperson, Lineo Moqasa, confirmed...

Bereng Mpaki | ‘Marafaele Mohloboli COMMUNICATIONS, Science and Technology Minister Samuel Rapapa has promised to amend the discredited proposed draconian snooping law aimed at giving the...

Mohalenyane Phakela  FORMER army commander Tlali Kamoli and eight other soldiers’ trial for the June 2017 murder of former army commander, Maaparankoe Mahao, failed to...

Pascalinah Kabi A joint venture alleged to be fronting for controversial businessman, Yan Xie, has successfully challenged the Ministry of Transport’s decision to award a...

Limpho Sello LESOTHO has so far vaccinated 332 950 people against the Covid-19 virus, a figure which translates to about 15 percent of the country’s...

  MASERU — Myths and misinformation around Covid-19 vaccines are rife in Lesotho, where over 85 percent of nearly 500 health workers surveyed recently report widespread misconceptions....

Mohalenyane Phakela PUBLIC Service Minister, Keketso Sello, is involved in a messy fight with his elder brother, Katiso Sello, for control of the family business....

Bereng Mpaki THE Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) Lesotho says press freedom in the country is under threat. This after the government drafted laws...

Bereng Mpaki THE Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) Lesotho says press freedom in the country is under threat. This after the government drafted laws...

Moorosi Tsiane TENNIS sensation, Neo Makhakhe, crashed out of the ongoing Jozi Open Tournament after losing 2-1 to South African, Da-Niel Kotze, on Sunday. Makhakhe...

as he pursues his spirited bid to oust Majoro, Mohalenyane Phakela PRIME Minister Moeketsi Majoro is using national security agencies to “intimidate” his All Basotho Convention (ABC) party legislators who are supporting...

’Marafaele Mohloboli PARLIAMENT has scrapped a proposed draconian snooping law that would have allowed the government to monitor the private communications of citizens.  The proposed...

blasts Majoro for giving state jobs to his friends Pascalinah Kabi PRIME Minister Moeketsi Majoro’s fractured ruling All Basotho Convention (ABC) has suffered yet another...

Mohalenyane Phakela ADVOCATE Shaun Abrahams, will be in court next Monday to continue prosecuting the murder trial of former army commander, Tlali Kamoli, and eight other soldiers who are accused of the June 2017...

as family threatens legal suite against the police while Mokhothu promises to get to investigate cases of police brutality ’Marafaele Mohloboli TŠELISO Sekonyela (28) died after...

. . . calls for death penalty enforcement Nthatuoa Koeshe THE Democratic Congress (DC) has condemned the “brutal and inhumane” killings of police officers across...

Former minister Senauoane accused of facilitating recruitment Pascalinah Kabi THE Lesotho Mounted Police Service (LMPS) has recruited an arson and attempted murder convict, Lebatsang Rotheli,...

Mohalenyane Phakela THERE is no end in sight to the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC)’s money troubles, with the electoral body reiterating that its operations continue...

Pascalinah Kabi THOUSANDS of suspects in remand custody may soon walk free following a law gazetted by Chief Justice Sakoane Sakoane seeking to ensure that...

Staff Reporter HEAVY windstorms which occurred during the last week of August 2021 destroyed 510 homes and other properties affecting 2550 people, a report by the Lesotho Red Cross Society (LRCS)...