Category : Local News

MASERU — Two Blue Ribbon employees on Tuesday appeared in the Maseru Magistrate Court facing charges of theft by false pretence.   Motheo Mohasisa (44) from...

MASERU — The murder trial of a police officer accused of shooting a suspected armed robber 14 years ago, continued in the Lesotho High Court...

MASERU — The Law Society of Lesotho (LSL) wants all lawyers to boycott a former chief justice who has been temporarily re-hired by the state...

MASERU — The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) says if the controversial Land Bill is not passed into law it will have to withdraw USUS$20.5 million...

MAFETENG — The son of a former government minister is embroiled in a bitter dispute with a popular businessman, Ashraf Abubaker, over the ownership of...

MASERU — A Maseru woman, ‘Malerato Masoabi, was yesterday slapped with a three-year jail sentence for raping her husband. This is the first time that...

MASERU — When it comes to spending university funds the vice-chancellor is an extremely extravagant fellow. That is how an internal audit summed up the...

MASERU — United States ambassador to Lesotho Robert Nolan on Monday met All Basotho Convention (ABC) youth league president, Libe Moremoholo, to discuss the opposition’s...

THABA-TSEKA — Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili took an voluntary HIV test on Tuesday as part of an awareness campaign during the World Aids Day. Mosisili...

MASERU — When Finance Minister Timothy Thahane delivers his budget next year the common man is likely to get a sinking feeling in the tummy....

MASERU — The government has been forced to bail out middleman Bothata Mahlala by settling the hundreds of thousands of maloti he owes to estate...

MASERU — The youth wings of the ruling Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) and the main opposition All Basotho Convention (ABC) have demanded an urgent...

BUTHA-BUTHE — Likhapha Lelosa, 21, is still in shock after her only brother, Tankiso, was clobbered to death with a knobkerrie two weeks ago.  Ten-year-old...

HA-RAMAKABATANE — At least two men were admitted in hospital with serious injuries while four, including a two-year-old toddler, sustained minor wounds after Ha-Nqosa villagers...

MASERU — The senior private secretary to King Letsie III has taken the government to court demanding payment for the leave days he accumulated when...

MASERU — The Ministry of Public Works and Transport has told rebellious affiliates of the Maseru Region Taxi Operators (MRTO) to accept the association’s new...

MASERU — Youths from opposition political parties in Lesotho have accused a United States agency for poverty reduction of setting the controversial Land Bill 2009...

MASERU — High Court Judge Ts´eliso Monaphathi on Tuesday dismissed an application for a stay of execution by money lenders in yet another blow for...

THABA-TSEKA — Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili on Sunday defended his government’s record in steering development in rural districts. Mosisili was addressing about 2 000 ruling...

MASERU — Several members of the Senate on Tuesday objected to a section of the Education Bill which seeks to abolish corporal punishment in schools....

MASERU — The Ombudsman, Sekara Mafisa, has lashed out at the Lesotho Highlands Development Authority (LHDA) for being callous and insensitive after it refused to...

MASERU — A Ha-Mabote man is claiming M216 000 from the commander of the Lesotho Defence Force (LDF) for damages and emotional shock he claims...

MASERU — Over 150 illegal immigrants from Lesotho were deported from South Africa on Sunday. The Maseru District Administration (DA)’s office said this is the...

MASERU — Former health minister, Tefo Mabote (pictured below), was sworn in as a Member of Parliament on Monday after eight years in the political...

MASERU — The liquidator of a textile factory whose bankrupt Chinese owner fled the country three years ago, leaving 700 workers jobless,  has come under...

MASERU — A lawyer representing former police officer Bokang Letele has asked the High Court to grant his client M3.6 million in damages after he...

MASERU — The Ombudsman has recommended that a Teyateyaneng man whose land was taken by the government 27 years ago for a national project should...

MASERU — A lawyer representing a police officer told the High Court on Tuesday that his client shot and killed an armed robbery suspect in...

MASERU — Three money lending institutions on Monday urged the High Court to allow them to continue deducting money from civil servants until the Appeal...

MASERU — Opposition leaders have reacted angrily to Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili’s attack, in which he called on opposition leaders to retire. Mosisili said he was...