Category : Local News

  Limpho Sello LESOTHO has only vaccinated 14 percent of the population against the deadly Covid-19 virus, the National Covid-19 Secretariat (NACOSEC) has said. According...

pledges to finance the construction of a new classroom block  Pascalinah Kabi LOCAL businessman and philanthropist, Bothata Mahlala, has pledged to bankroll the construction of...

Silence Charumbira THE European Union (EU) has appointed Paola Amadei as its new ambassador to Lesotho. Ms Amadei has since landed in the country. She...

. . . demands secret ballot for no confidence motion Bereng Mpaki Mokhotlong legislator, Tefo Mapesela, is pushing for his no confidence motion against Prime...

. . . canvasses for MPs’ support to avert no confidence motion Pascalinah Kabi IN a desperate move to save the coalition government from potential...

  Mohalenyane Phakela THE Transformation Resource Centre (TRC) has launched a fresh war against the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) over its failure to hold by elections in five vacant constituencies....

…accuse civic organisation of steering a constitutional crisis Mohalenyane Phakela THE government and the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) have accused the Transformation Resource Centre (TRC) of...

Pascalinah Kabi SUSPENDED Directorate on Corruption and Economic Offences (DCEO) director general, Advocate Mahlomola Manyokole, has been given until next Friday to file his full...

’Marafaele Mohloboli THE Basotho Action Party (BAP) wants parliament to compel Prime Minister Moeketsi Majoro to advise King Letsie III to dissolve parliament and call...

Kaleen Chikowore THE thousands of factory jobs that have been lost since last year will worsen endemic poverty and spawn a new wave of crime,...

Bereng Mpaki IT is now easier for local entrepreneurs to securely import goods from China after Standard Lesotho Bank (SLB) launched the Africa China Agent...

Nthatuoa Koeshe PRIME Minister Moeketsi Majoro has called for more investment into the tourism sector to boost the economy. Dr Majoro was speaking during the...

…as congress parties demand 2022 elections on the basis of old constituencies   Mohalenyane Phakela THE country’s main political parties are at loggerheads over the delimitation...

Pascalinah Kabi THATO Sibolla, a key state witness in the June 2017 murder of Lipolelo Thabane, says she remains committed to ensuring that justice is...

Nthatuoa Koeshe BASOTHO National Party (BNP) leader, Machesetsa Mofomobe, has been appointed minister of Small Business Development and Cooperatives. The post was previously held by...

 as yet another police officer is gunned down,  it’s a declaration of war against the police, police chief, minister say ’Marafaele Mohloboli POLICE and Public...

Mohalenyane Phakela EDUCATION and Training Ministry Principal Secretary (PS), John Oliphant, stands accused of unprocedurally appointing an “unqualified” member of his Democratic Congress (DC) party...

Mohalenyane Phakela TREASON and murder accused politicians, Mothetjoa Metsing and Selibe Mochoboroane, say the charges against them are politically motivated. They allege that the Director...

Limpho Sello PRIME Minster Moeketsi Majoro says the launch of an oxygen production plant at Motebang Hospital, Leribe will not only help the country in...

Limpho Sello THE five people who died in Leribe last month after taking the Johnson&Johnson Covid-19 vaccine were not killed by the jab, Health Minister...

…asks govt for M1, 6 million to pay his legal bills Pascalinah Kabi SUSPENDED Directorate on Corruption and Economic Offences (DCEO) Director General, Mahlomola Manyokole,...

Pascalinah Kabi DEMOCRATIC Congress (DC) leader Mathibeli Mokhothu yesterday launched a driving school as part of the ongoing DC Girl Child Programme to empower girls...

. . . party’s NEC summons Majoro to explain “failure” to give jobs to ABC cadres Pascalinah Kabi PRIME Minister and deputy leader of the...

Limpho Sello THE Lesotho Nurses Association (LNA) has not paid its staffers for the last six months from March 2021 due to alleged embezzlement of...

Kaleen Chikowore LESOTHO has received a massive Special Drawing Rights (SDR) 66, 9 million allocation from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Finance Minister Thabo Sophonea...