‘We are all vulnerable to disability’
By Tsitsi Matope MASERU-Lesotho is still far from understanding and taking disability issues seriously and this has left the more than 75 000 Basotho living...
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A mountain of challenges
Ha-Mokoto Clinic is providing a critical service to impoverished Thaba-Tseka communities, but the delivery is not without its challenges. By Tsitsi Matope THABA-TSEKA – Ha-Mokoto...
Mosisili taunts government after DC victory
By Motsamai Mokotjo MASERU — The Democratic Congress (DC) on Sunday held a “thanksgiving” ceremony in Katlehong to celebrate the party’s victory in the weekend...
‘Budget should target investment’
By Letuka Chafotsa MASERU — The Finance Minister, Dr Leketekete Ketso, will today deliver his second annual national budget presentation for the year 2014/15 amidst...
A failed marriage, a wary union and the ANC
Heinrich Bohmke As South Africans ponder the failed DA-Agang attempt at constructing a hybrid political machine that did not run mainly on racial fuel, an...
Ban on SA red meat exports lifted
CAPE TOWN – The South African Red Meat Industry can once again engage in cross border trade. Agriculture Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson on Wednesday officially announced...
World fraud champs
South Africa is the world leader in money-laundering, bribery and corruption, procurement fraud, asset misappropriation and cybercrime. For the first time in nine years, the...
$1m road repair for Mugabe bride
Harare city officials have been ordered to spruce up roads linking Zimbabwe’s State House and President Robert Mugabe’s private home in Borrowdale Brooke in preparation...
France to boost forces in Central African Republic
France is to send an 400 additional troops to the Central African Republic, raising its total deployment to 2,000. The French military has been working...
Human Flesh on Sale at Hotel – 11 Arrested
NIGERIA – Police in the city of Onitsha in Anambra State who made a grizzly discovery last August when they found two severed heads in...
Soulo speaks out
By Bongiwe Zihlangu MASERU — Molobeli Soulo and Mophato Monyake, the two ministers fired this week in Prime Minister Thomas Thabane’s latest reshuffle, are unhappy...
Prosecution wants Scott’s trial postponed to 2015
By Billy Ntaote MASERU – The prosecution has urged the High Court to postpone the trial of ritual murder suspect, Lehlohonolo Scott, to February 10...
Parliament rejects budget reports
By Billy Ntaote & Sentle Rathebe MASERU — Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on the Social Cluster has thrown out budget reports from two ministries citing irregularities...
Minister’s private secretary arrested over fake certificates
By Keiso Mohloboli MASERU – The Minister of Social Development’s private secretary, Lebohang Mokone, 40, was yesterday arrested on suspicion that he had used fake...
LCD flaunts incumbency in government
By Billy Ntaote MASERU — Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) leader Mothetjoa Metsing has urged Thaba-Phechela residents to vote for his party in Saturday’s parliamentary...
IEC clarifies electoral campaign code
By Sentle Rathebe and Boitumelo Koloi MASERU – The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) Director of Elections, Mphasa Mokhochane, has said that although a party or...
Desperate and desolate
The sad tale of Damaseka — a village in Butha-Buthe which gives a clear picture of what it means to live in a ‘hard-to-reach’ area...
Midwives ‘must take charge of their profession’
By Tsitsi Matope MASERU- The Independent Midwives Association of Lesotho (IMAL) has expressed concern that women continue to die during pregnancy and soon after delivery....
Political Stone Age still a reality
By Mahao Mahao On the first Sunday of February, I was winding down the weekend at a certain joint in Khubetsoana when a certain young...
Declining standards in the legal fraternity?
By Advocate Monaheng S Rasekoai A WEEK ago, his Lordship Acting Chief Justice’s speech in the official opening of the High Court made a humorous...
SA deports 114 Basotho
By Mohalenyane Phakela MASERU – A total of 114 Basotho were deported from South Africa yesterday morning for staying in the neighbouring country without proper...
The more you hide, the more you’re exposed
The Japanese Ambassador to Lesotho residing in Pretoria, Yutaka Yoshizawa, wrote in his article entitled “Japan is not competing with China on Africa” (Lesotho Times...
EU takes it easy on Zimbabwe, not Mugabe
European Union sources say the organisation plans to ease sanctions on Zimbabwe, however it will maintain its restrictions imposed on Robert Mugabe. The European Union...
Accountant unpacks budget expectations
The 2014/2015 budget will be unveiled next week. Lesotho Times’s Business Reporter Letuka Chafotsa spoke to Malehlohonolo Likhapha Mahase to unpack what experts expect from...
Ayatollah Khamenei says US will overthrow Iran, given the chance
Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said the US had a ‘controlling and meddlesome’ attitude towards the Islamic Republic. In a speech to mark the...
Vavi plans to sue Cosatu
Zwelinzima Vavi says he intends on suing the union federation and an auditing firm for defamation after a report on his conduct was made public....
Defence PS threatened with death
By Bongiwe Zihlangu and Keiso Mohloboli MASERU — The Ministry of Defence and National Security’s Principal Secretary (PS) David Sehloho has reportedly been threatened with...
Japan is not competing with China on Africa
By Yutaka Yoshizawa THE article in the Lesotho Times by Mathabana Kotelo, entitled “Chinese envoy lashes out at Japan” (January 16 2014), cited Chinese Ambassador...
Japan and China’s great African game
A NEW scramble for Africa is unfolding. But it’s no longer Western powers vying for land and the continent’s wealth as they had...
Vatican dismisses ‘unfair’ UN child molestation findings
The Vatican says a blunt UN report on sexual abuse of children by clergy was distorted and that the UN has been influenced by pro-gay...