Category : Local News

accuses Prime Minister Majoro of dishonesty Pascalinah Kabi FORMER Prime Minister Thomas Thabane has leapt to the defence of embattled Government Secretary Moahloli Mphaka saying...

judgement clears the way for the much-delayed recruitment of IEC commissioners  Mohalenyane Phakela THE Constitutional Court has dismissed the Transformation Resource Centre (TRC) and two...

’Marafaele Mohloboli THE opposition Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) will meet today to decide the fate of its secretary general Teboho Sekata who has accused...

Pascalinah Kabi FORMER Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili and six former government officials have denied allegations by the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Offences (DCEO) that...

Pascalinah Kabi PRIME Minister Moeketsi Majoro has appointed new principal secretaries (PSs) whose names will be announced tomorrow, the Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office,...

Mohalenyane Phakela THE Constitutional Court has reserved judgement in a case in which top politicians, Mothetjoa Metsing and Selibe Mochoboroane, are seeking the rescission of...

Pascalinah Kabi HIGH Court judge Justice Molefi Makara has issued an interim order stopping Police Commissioner Holomo Molibeli from transferring the Lesotho Mounted Police Service...

Limpho Sello THE chief executive officer of the National Covid-19 Secretariat (NACOSEC), Thabo Khasipe, has accused some unnamed government officials of frustrating NACOSEC’s efforts to...

Nthatuoa Koeshe BASOTHO National Party (BNP) deputy leader Machesetsa Mofomobe says his party’s leader, Thesele ‘Maseribane, never misused any funds meant to fight the coronavirus...

Mohalenyane Phakela TAXI operators have filed a High Court application to stop the Mobile Traffic Court from operating as they say it is a “mockery...

’Marafaele Mohloboli IT never rains but pours for vulnerable and defenceless Basotho women who continue to be slaughtered like animals by their male counterparts. This...

Nthatuoa Koeshe THE First Lady, ‘Masekoalane Majoro, has condemned the rampant killings of women in the country. Speaking on national television early this week to...

wasteful NECC gobbles M161 million in just four months with a whooping M10 million spent on food for officials Pascalinah Kabi THE National Emergency Command...

Pascalinah Kabi | Mohalenyane Phakela PRIME Minister Moeketsi Majoro has blasted government secretary Moahloli Mphaka for allegedly “unilaterally” and “fraudulently” renewing the contracts of principal...

Ntsebeng Motsoeli NEEDY Lesotho nationals based in South Africa will have to wait longer before they can access a once-off payment from the government to...

Nthatuoa Koeshe FORMER Prime Minister Thomas Thabane and his All Basotho Convention (ABC) party had lost the support of most Basotho by the time Mr...

begins processes to fire police union’s secretary general Moraleli Motloli Pascalinah Kabi POLICE Commissioner Holomo Molibeli has intensified his war with the “rebellious” leadership of...

…as criminals continue to run rampant   ’Marafaele Mohloboli Koalabata in Berea, the scene of the gruesome 2012 ritual killings, witnessed more gruesome murders at...

Nthatuoa Koeshe PRIME Minister Moeketsi Majoro has established several inter-ministerial committees to address various challenges including the instability in the security agencies. The move comes...

’Marafaele Mohloboli PRIME Minister Moeketsi Majoro has disbanded the National Aids Commission (NAC). According to sources who spoke to the Lesotho Times on condition of...

Bataung Moeketsi INSURANCE giant, Lesotho National Insurance Group (LNIG), yesterday donated a brand new 12-seater minibus to the Lesotho Mounted Police Service (LMPS) at the...

Staff Reporter EVERY August Lesotho joins South Africa in commemorating women’s month. Women’s month was originally aimed at commemorating South African women’s spirited fight against...

Mohalenyane Phakela THE trial of former army commander Lieutenant General (Lt-Gen) Tlali Kamoli and eight other soldiers accused of murdering army commander Maaparankoe Mahao has...

as Shaun Abrahams recommends his prosecution for defeating the ends of justice says he should be charged alongside Mokete and Lebajoa Mohalenyane Phakela | Pascalinah...

claims they are in open rebellion against him Pascalinah Kabi POLICE Commissioner Holomo Molibeli’s fight with the militant Lesotho Mounted Police Service Staff Association (LEPOSA)...

Ntsebeng Motsoeli DEPUTY Prime Minister Mathibeli Mokhothu says the cabinet is considering setting up a commission of inquiry to investigate widespread allegations of police brutality....

Staff Reporter ECONET Telecom Lesotho has completed a circle of innovation by introducing airtime conversion to the EcoCash wallet. This was revealed by Econet’s acting...

victim’s father laments brutal killing says daughter was a defenceless woman who was killed like an animal ’Marafaele Mohloboli THE dismembered body parts of a...

Ntsebeng Motsoeli HATA-Butle residents on Friday woke up to the shocking sight of a lifeless body of a National University of Lesotho (NUL) student dangling...

Mohalenyane Phakela ATTORNEY General Advocate Haae Phoofolo and two principal secretaries risk being in contempt of court for allegedly defying a March 2020 High Court...