Category : Crime & Courts

  …former first lady’s friend faces jail, fine for the offence ’Marafaele Mohloboli A CLOSE friend of the former First Lady ‘Maesaiah Thabane faces an...

Nthatuoa Koeshe THOUSANDS of Lesotho Special Permit (LSP) holders and other asylum seekers are set to receive M350 grants over a six-month period from the...

Ntsebeng Motsoeli POLICE and Public Safety Minister ‘Mamoipone Senauoane has called on Police Commissioner Holomo Molibeli to expedite investigations into the near-fatal shooting of Movement...

former first lady sent to prison after top court revoked her bail Mohalenyane Phakela FORMER First Lady ‘Maesaiah Thabane is now languishing in remand prison....

Pascalinah Kabi A FORENSIC investigation into the affairs of the Lesotho Electricity Company (LEC) has revealed deep rooted malfeasance within the power utility including fraud,...

Mohalenyane Phakela FORMER Deputy Prime Minister Mothetjoa Metsing, former army commander Tlali Kamoli, and newly appointed Development Planning Minister Selibe Mochoboroane’s Constitutional Court application to...

’Marafaele Mohloboli BARELY a year after the death of Justice ‘Maseshophe Hlajoane, the judiciary has once again been plunged into mourning after the sudden death...

’Marafaele Mohloboli   LESOTHO Mounted Police (LMPS) Deputy Commissioner Mahlape Florence Morai was last Thursday arrested and charged for contravening South Africa’s lockdown regulations. Deputy...

Ntsebeng Motsoeli POLICE and Public Safety Minister Lehlohonolo Moramotse will soon appear in court after he allegedly purchased alcohol at a local liquor shop in...

Lemphane-Letsie blames RCL infighting for incident ’Marafaele Mohloboli THE principal secretary in the Ministry of Home Affairs, ’Machabana Lemphane-Letsie, and her family were subjected to...

as police charge officers involved in bail decision Mohalenyane Phakela / Pascalinah Kabi The police say they will lay criminal charges against senior judicial officers...

Staff reporter IF ever Acting Chief Justice ’Maseforo Mahase’s detractors needed any ammunition to oppose her recommendation by outgoing Prime Minister Thomas Thabane, it was...

’Marafaele Mohloboli FINANCIAL Intelligence Unit (FIU) director, Palesa Khabele and eight other officers of the national anti-corruption entity are being investigated by police for fraud,...

’Marafaele Mohloboli LESOTHO Congress for Democracy (LCD) leader, Mothetjoa Metsing, has bizarrely blamed the murders of army commander Maaparankoe Mahao and Police Sub Inspector Mokheseng...

Mohalenyane Phakela ACTING Chief Justice, ‘Maseforo Mahase, yesterday won her Constitutional Court bid for the recusal of all local judges from presiding over All Basotho...

Mohalenyane Phakela DOUBLE ritual murder suspect, Lehlohonolo Scott, will have to wait until 12 February 2020 to know his fate. This after High Court judge...

Mohalenyane Phakela IT never rains but pours for former army commander, Lieutenant General Tlali Kamoli. Not only is the army commander set to spend a...

Mohalenyane Phakela ALL Basotho Convention (ABC) deputy leader, Professor Nqosa Mahao and his allies’ long wait for the hearing of their application for the nullification...

Pascalinah Kabi THE government’s insistence on hiring a South African lawyer, Advocate Guido Heinz Penzhorn, to defend Acting Chief Justice ‘Maseforo Mahase in the impeachment...

Mohalenyane Phakela THE second session of the Court of Appeal got underway on Monday 14 October 2019 and is expected to end on 1 November...

Mohalenyane Phakela THE much-anticipated All Basotho Convention (ABC) expulsions case will now be heard next week on 23 October 2019. High Court judge, Justice Tšeliso...

Ntsebeng Motsoeli THE Public Accounts Committee (PAC) this week lambasted the police and the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Offence (DCEO) for allegedly failing to...

Staff Reporters One of Lesotho’s oldest and most respected law firms, Webber Newdigate, has essentially accused one of its former partners of turning into a...

Mohalenyane Phakela A SENIOR judge, Justice Tšeliso Monapathi, has denied claims by some lawyers that the Constitutional Court flouted legal rules by electing to hear...

as PM Thabane promises to consider the LCD’ leader’s demands. ’Marafaele Mohloboli LESOTHO Congress for Democracy (LCD) leader, Mothetjoa Metsing, dropped a bombshell over the...

Mohalenyane Phakela MASERU Senior Resident Magistrate, Peter Murenzi, is disappointed by the slow pace of the attempted murder trial of the army officers who allegedly...

’Marafaele Mohloboli STEPHEN Dlamini, a South African national, who was handed a 62 year jail term in 2011 for defrauding the Lesotho Highlands Development Authority...

Mohalenyane Phakela A former minister accused of raping a 17 year old orphan  is now free after negotiating an out of court deal to build...

Mohalenyane Phakela EMBATTLED All Basotho Convention (ABC) deputy leader Professor Nqosa Mahao and four others’ High Court application challenging their “expulsion” from the ABC once...