Category : Local News

MASERU — The Law Society of Lesotho is misdirected in submitting that the Chief Justice Mahapela Lehohla acted against the constitution by delegating some of...

MASERU — The Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) women’s wing will on Saturday give awards to outstanding Basotho women in various fields. The league’s secretary-general,...

MASERU — The All Basotho Convention (ABC) youth league will go ahead with its conference tomorrow, defying a call by the party to postpone the...

MASERU — Chief Magistrate has ruled that Principal Chief of Thaba-Bosiu, Khoabane Theko should be evicted from a house he has been using since he...

MASERU — A three-day strike by textile workers failed to end with a planned massive protest march yesterday after the police cancelled its authorising permit....

MASERU – A group of soldiers suspected to be Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili’s guards are under investigation for allegedly attacking an elderly Chieftainess in Mohale’s...

MASERU — The Swaziland Judicial Service Commission (JSC) has refused to entertain calls by Swazi lawyers to discipline Chief Justice Michael Ramodibedi for allegedly sexually...

MASERU — Inmates at the Maseru Central Prison are living on smaller-than-normal rations because the prison has run out of food, the Lesotho Times can...

MASERU  — The High Court yesterday removed from the roll the application by textile union leaders and other organisations seeking to overturn the police’s decision...

MASERU — The Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) youth league yesterday came under fire from the opposition for condemning this week’s strike by textile workers....

MASERU — Lesotho’s new M1.2 billion referral hospital will open its doors on October 1, the principal secretary in the Ministry of Health and Social...

MASERU — A couple from Pitseng in Leribe appeared in the High Court on Tuesday last week charged with the murder of a man in...

MASERU — Opposition leaders have condemned the decision to engage Masupha Sole, the convicted former boss of the Lesotho Highlands Development Authority (LHDA). Sole was...

MASERU — There was a time when Masupha Sole was a star. He had entered the civil service in 1972 as a little known engineer....

MASERU — Police this week arrested a 30-year-old man from Mafeteng suspected of killing famo musician Boithatelo Leopa last month. Police spokesperson Masupha Masupha said...

MASERU – The National Abattoir is under investigation for allegedly selling meat condemned by inspectors and slaughtering animals that had not been inspected, the Lesotho...

MASERU — The Basotho National Party (BNP) enthusiasts were barred from visiting the late Prime Minister Leabua Jonathan’s widow two weeks ago. Together with their...

MASERU — The constituencies of the Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) demanding a special conference that will decide whether Pakalitha Mosisili and his National Executive...

MASERU — Agriculture minister Ralechate ’Mokose’s second attempt to fire the Lesotho National Dairy Board (LNDB) chief executive, Selematsela Montši, hit a brick wall last...

MASERU — A coalition of traders, labour unions and civil society has threatened to orgainse a national demonstration if Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili does not...

MASERU — The Law Society of Lesotho has refused to condemn the Chief Justice of Swaziland, Michael Ramodibedi, for the way he handled the suspension...

MASERU — The Lesotho Defence Force (LDF)’s Air Wing Squadron abandoned a mission to rescue people trapped in snow in the mountains last Tuesday after...

MASERU — Three opposition parties have asked the government to consider pushing the local council polls, scheduled for October 1, to early next year. The...

MASERU — The Lesotho Highlands Development Authority (LHDA) is investigating its officials allegedly producing fake documents to help resettled communities claim compensation they do not...

MASERU — The adjudication of the multi-million dollar identity cards tender was thrown into further turmoil this week after a Malaysian company appealed a decision...

MASERU — A woman who was last month fingered in the alleged theft of over M20 million from the National Drug Service Organisation (NDSO) five...

MASERU — The Lesotho Council of Non-governmental Organisations (LCN) on Tuesday deployed 600 electoral educators countrywide to teach voters how to cast their votes in...

MASERU — A courageous 42-year-old woman from Mohale’s Hoek managed to fend off a suspected rapist by biting off his tongue as he tried to...