Local company sells shares
MASERU — Morou Development Limited, the company that owns Pioneer Shopping Mall, is selling shares to the public. According to the prospectus the public offer...
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PM warns civil servants against corruption
MASERU — Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili on Monday warned civil servants to avoid corruption if they want to stay out of jail. Mosisili was speaking...
LCD ordered to hold special conference
MASERU — The Court of Appeal on Tuesday ordered the ruling Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) party’s National Executive Committee (NEC) to hold a special...
IMF gives Lesotho the thumbs up
MASERU — The International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission to Lesotho has given the country the thumbs up over the way the government handled the Extended...
Couple faces assault charge
MASERU — A couple from Sehlabeng in Berea district appeared in the magistrate’s court on Monday to face charges of assaulting their neighbour. Motlalepula Leqala...
Police warn of bogus cops
MASERU — Police have warned the public of a gang of conmen masquerading as traffic police officers in Maseru. The gang is targeting pedestrians, the...
Time to remain true to our ideals
IT HAS been 26 years since December 9, 1985 the last occasion of a formal commemoration of the Maseru Massacre. The date also marks the...
The benefits of going green
THIS is one of those trends that we will look back at in 20 years time and wonder why we didn’t seize the business opportunities...
DRC not the only failed state?
SINCE its independence from Belgium in 1960 the Democratic Republic of the Congo has functioned spasmodically as a state. ))The number of people killed in...
‘Nobody deserves what they feel they have to fight for’
THE rule, according to Napoleon Hill, goes: “The world doesn’t pay you for what you know, but for what you do or induce others to...
Top job for crime suspect. Diplomatic posting questioned
MASERU — A senior official in the defence ministry who is facing charges of corruption was rewarded with a diplomatic post, parliament’s Public Accounts Committee...
Chief Justice to probe complaints against registrar
The decision to launch an investigation follows a heated meeting between the Chief Justice and the judges at his chambers last Friday. The meeting, which...
Law Society urges PM to probe graft in judiciary
MASERU — The Law Society of Lesotho has urged Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili to set up a tribunal to investigate serious allegations of corruption and...
Naked women block traffic in Maseru
MASERU — Traffic came to a standstill along the Main North 1 road near Maqalika Dam on Saturday night when a group of naked women...
Troubled MKM creditors want judge out
MASERU — A group of MKM creditors has told a judge to recuse himself from a case in which they want the company’s liquidation stayed....
High Court dismisses call for LCD leadership conference
MASERU — The High Court on Monday dismissed an application by three members of the Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) to compel the ruling party’s...
Massive task to unite BNP
MASERU — Newly elected Basotho National Party (BNP) Youth leader, Tšeliso Lesenya, says the league faces a mammoth task in uniting the faction-ridden party ahead...
Trade unions reject NUL Amendment Bill
MASERU — Trade unions have rejected the National University of Lesotho (Amendment) Bill 2011 saying it is a self-serving piece of legislation designed to punish...
Sekhamane in bitter fight to represent LCD in Mokhotlong
MASERU — Government secretary, Tlohang Sekhamane, is locked in a bitter fight with two ruling party cadres over who should represent the ruling Lesotho Congress...
Judge orders Lehohla to decide on protest request
MASERU — High Court judge Justice ‘Maseshophe Hlajoane yesterday ordered Home Affairs Minister Lesao Lehohla to decide whether a protest being organised by a coalition...
Parliament rejects PAC special report
MASERU — Parliament on Tuesday unanimously rejected a damning Public Accounts Committee (PAC) special report that was tabled a fortnight ago. The report, which revealed...
Regulate medicinal products in Lesotho
THIS article is in response to a piece written by ‘Malintle Matlakeng and her subsequent invitation for comments regarding an article she wrote titled Ngakas...
Remembering the other Julius
FOR what many people would consider to be plausible reasons, I have recently been reviewing the life and times of one of Africa’s most illustrious...
Should African economists learn more from America than from land-scarce Asia?
AFRICA faces innumerable developmental challenges and has for long dragged behind all other regions for this reason or the other. It has thus become common...
Welcome to Sin City
THE rains have been late to come this year but Scrutator hears that Maqalika Dam is almost overflowing. Not with water but with the saliva...
M5 million lost in farming deal
MASERU — The Ministry of Agriculture paid a whopping M5.5 million for agricultural equipment it never received, according to a damning report by parliament’s Public...
Pension looting spree unearthed
MASERU — Between 2010 and 2011 the government lost M81 million through illegal old age pension claims. This is according to a special report tabled...
The art of stealing
T HERE was a time when government officials in this country used to pinch state funds. Then, they used to steal a few hundreds or...
Officials looted M500 000: Report
MASERU — Police in Butha-Buthe are investigating four officials in the district’s local government offices who are suspected to have looted more than half a...
Man kills girlfriend over poorly cooked food
MASERU — Ts’ehlo Phits’ane’s was outraged by the quality of food that his girlfriend had prepared for him. He alleged that the food was badly...