Security guard pays the price for insulting DPP Motinyane
Mohalenyane Phakela A PRIVATE security officer has paid a heavy price for hurling misogynistic insults at the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Hlalefang Motinyane. The...
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Mochoboroane wants swift treason and murder trial
. . . says speedy trial will enable him to switch focus to more pressing matters of national development Mohalenyane Phakela MOVEMENT for Economic...
Manhunt for fugitive Metsing
Mohalenyane Phakela THE police are searching high and low for fugitive former deputy prime minister and current Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) leader, Mothetjoa Metsing....
Molibeli ordered to return seized LEPOSA property
. . . but police boss defies court order, again Nthatuoa Koeshe EMBATTLED Police Commissioner, Holomo Molibeli, has been left with another egg on his...
Sakoane orders state to pay pro deo lawyers
Mohalenyane Phakela CHIEF Justice Sakoane Sakoane has ordered the prosecution to facilitate the payment of lawyers who have been engaged by the state to represent...
LCD pulls out of reforms
’Marafaele Mohloboli THE opposition Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) has ‘’with immediate effect’’ pulled out of the ongoing multi-sector reforms process. Announcing the move at...
Parly breaks for Christmas
. . . break gives Majoro breathing space Pascalinah Kabi THE ruling All Basotho Convention (ABC)’s national executive committee (NEC) might have to wait until...
NRA members sue chairperson Letsoela
Mohalenyane Phakela OUTSPOKEN Thaba-Bosiu chief, Khoabane Theko, and 12 other members of the National Reforms Authority (NRA) have filed a High Court application for the...
Hippo Transport owner attacks DCEO
. . . demands M10 million damages for lost business, . . . accuses anti-graft body of routinely leaking information to destroy public figures’ reputations....
ABC recalls Majoro?
. . . proposes deputy SG Nkaku Kabi to replace him as premier . . . but move unlikely to succeed Pascalinah Kabi SENIOR leaders...
Date set for ex-premier Thabane’s murder trial
Mohalenyane Phakela FORMER Prime Minister and current All Basotho Convention (ABC) leader, Thomas Thabane, will finally stand trial for the murder of his ex-wife, Lipolelo,...
Metsing pulling all the stops
. . . meets Moseneke to pressure SADC to block his treason, murder trial ’Marafaele Mohloboli LESOTHO Congress of Democracy (LCD) leader, Mothejoa Metsing, is...
Nearly 100 murder suspects jailed in 26 days
Staff Reporter JUST when Lesotho is still fretting from revelations that 59 murder suspects were jailed within a space of nine days from 15 to...
EU injects M17 million into food security
Staff Reporter THE European Union (EU) this week officially handed over M17 million to the World Food Programme (WFP) for a hunger alleviation programme in...
Murder accused soldiers plead “not guilty”
Mohalenyane Phakela LESOTHO Defence Force (LDF)’s Captain, Litekanyo Nyakane, and four other soldiers, who are being tried for the 2012 murder of three Mafeteng civilians,...
Parly passes media policy
’Marafaele Mohloboli THE National Assembly has adopted a National Media Policy developed by the National Reforms Authority (NRA) and approved by cabinet in September 2021...
Phamotse’s graft case postponed to next year
Mohalenyane Phakela THE case in which former Education and Training Minister, Mahali Phamotse, is charged with corruption for allegedly influencing the awarding of a 2015...
Rape victim can no longer trust men, taxi crews
. . . feels let down by a system that tolerates gender violence Staff Reporter *ROSA Molise sits in a black couch in her lounge...
Warring factions in talks to save NRA
Pascalinah Kabi THE two warring factions of the National Reforms Authority (NRA) were yesterday locked in closed door peace talks after Law and Justice Minister,...
Former top cop joins politics
. . . backs the DC to win next year’s polls ‘Marafaele Mohloboli FORMER top cop Keketso Monaheng has officially joined politics and is betting...
Thabane to finally stand trial for ex-wife’s murder
Staff Reporter FORMER Prime Minister Thomas Thabane will finally stand trial for the murder of his ex-wife, Lipolelo, early next year after a formal decision...
M50 million fraud mastermind must remain jailed: Crown
THE Crown is fighting a spirited battle to have a key mastermind in the M50 million fraud case involving the Ministry of Finance kept in...
Army steps in, nabs four as murderous gang strikes again
. . . police found wanting, fearful residents seek LDF’s help. Staff Writer THE murderous Manomoro gang, which terrorised residents of various parts of Maseru...
59 murder suspects jailed in just nine days
Staff Reporters FIFTY-NINE murder suspects have been arrested and remanded in custody in a short period of just nine days, in a worrying indication of...
Man kills lover, self
’Marafaele Mohloboli POLICE are investigating a case in which a Maseru man is alleged to have murdered his lover before committing suicide early this week....
Reforms under threat
Pascalinah Kabi A POWER struggle is tearing the National Reforms Authority (NRA) apart. This could scuttle the implementation of the much-delayed SADC-sponsored multi-sector reforms aimed...
Masoetsa, Khoabane in near fist-fight
Pascalinah Kabi RULING All Basotho Convention (ABC) spokesperson, Montoeli Masoetsa, and Thaba-Bosiu Principal Chief, Khoabane Theko, almost came to blows over the latter’s alleged support...
LCD angered by decision to prosecute Metsing, Mochoboroane
Nthatuoa Koeshe THE opposition Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) has accused the government of seeking to disrupt the ongoing reforms by forging ahead with the...
High profile trials resume as Abrahams, Hungwe return
Mohalenyane Phakela THE high-profile trials of politicians, serving and former members of the security agencies are back on track and will continue in the High...
Top lawyer accuses DCP Mokete of extortion, fraud
Pascalinah Kabi TOP lawyer, Zwelakhe Mda, has sensationally accused Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Paseka Mokete and three junior police officers of fraudulently coercing him...