Category : Local News

MASERU — The government has set up a M50-million credit guarantee scheme to help small, micro and medium enterprises (SMMEs), Finance Minister Timothy Thahane (pictured...

MASERU — Finance Minister Timothy Thahane says the government is unlikely to meet its Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015. Addressing parliament during the 2011/12...

The good thing about democracy is that it dictates that everyone must be listened to. That’s fair. Its downside however is that sometimes we just...

MASERU – The High Court has rejected an attempt by two members of the Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) party to be included as respondents...

MASERU – The Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) youth league has alleged that the five party members seeking to block the special conference are pawns...

MASERU – Opposition parties have rejected a proposal to incorporate civil society groups into a special body to be formed by the Independent Electoral Commission...

MASERU — The home affairs principal secretary says there is nothing wrong in using a selective tender process to identify firms that could produce Lesotho’s...

MASERU — The police are offering a whopping M2 million to anyone who can supply information that could help unlock four high-profile murder cases. They...

MASERU — The selective tender process adopted by the government for Lesotho’s e-passports is in stark contrast to the process used by the Millennium Challenge...

Dear Honourable Prime Minister Mosisili, WITH revenues from the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) that have long accounted for a greater portion of Lesotho’s income...

MASERU – The government of Lesotho is in the process of introducing electronic passports. An electronic passport, also known as biometric passport, looks like a...

MASERU – Selective tendering, like the one the Lesotho government has just been engaged in to search for firms which will produce electronic passports, has...

MASERU – A Bill seeking to change the country’s electoral law has triggered an uproar from opposition parties. The opposition parties say the National Assembly...

MASERU — When news broke last week that prominent businessman Osman Moosa and his son Shameen were facing 180 charges of dodging tax Moosa said...

MASERU – Chief Justice Mahapela Lehohla has blamed the courts’ failure to reduce the backlog of criminal cases on the establishment of a new unit...

MASERU — Opposition leaders say they will call for the ouster of Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) chairperson, Limakatso Mokhothu, if she insists on postponing local...

MASERU — The Limkokwing University management says non-academic staff members have not been excluded from salary increments. Last week the Limkokwing University of Creative Technology...

MASERU – The power struggles within the ruling Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) party took a fresh twist when dissidents disrupted a youth league rally...

MASERU — During the 2007/08 financial year the Ministry of Health had to return nearly 20 percent of its budget allocation to the treasury department...

Our ancestors used to say the quarrel of lovers is the renewal of love. What the ancient proverb seems to suggest is that lovers need...

LERIBE — When all is well Matukeng village in Leribe district is a beautiful place to live. The school and the clinic are not very...

MASERU – The Ministry of Health will tomorrow launch the “Mother Baby Pack” in Makhunoane in Butha-Buthe. The Mother Baby Pack is a take-home package...

MASERU – She says she was raped. He denies the charge. But he admits biting and tearing a piece of her ear during a scuffle....

MASERU — The auditor-general’s report for the 2007/08 financial year has revealed why the much-hyped Know Your Status (KYS) campaign failed. The KYS campaign was...

MASERU — Students at the National University of Lesotho (NUL) began writing their exams on Monday after management awarded striking lecturers a 10 percent pay...

MASERU — Death at a funeral. That’s what happened when a graveside quarrel between two relatives in Ha-Hlalele village in Maseru became fatal a fortnight...

MASERU — A Semonkong man was on Monday imprisoned for 15 years after he was found guilty of raping his 16-year-old daughter. His wife, who...

MASERU — She has claimed that he beat her up and police are investigating him. He has denied that he ever beat her up and...

MASERU — Finance Minister Timothy Thahane says 2011 will be yet another tough year for Lesotho as revenue from the Southern African Customs Union (Sacu)...