LPCM threatens demo
Lerato Matheka MASERU — The Lesotho People’s Charter Movement (LPCM), a group advocating free movement between South Africa and Lesotho, says it will soon take...
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Ex-police boss escapes jail term
MASERU — Motsotuoa Ntaote, the former deputy police commissioner convicted of fraud, will sleep well this week. That’s because he is not going to jail...
Mafeteng herd boys burn church
MAFETENG — Hell hath no fury like two herd boys denied access to their preferred grazing land. Two herd boys, aged 17 and 18, were...
Companies Bill: reversing the slump
IN last week’s issue of the Lesotho Times Mpeshe Selebalo reported that Lesotho had slumped in the World Bank’s Doing Business indicators. What he says...
Things to do for new NUL vice-chancellor
THE top decision-making body at the National University of Lesotho (NUL) last week conducted interviews for the vacant post of vice-chancellor. At least four candidates...
Time for Sadc people to unite too
THE harassment of citizens of Sadc countries in member states seems to be declining — or is it? South Africa, the strongest economy in the...
Shooting striking students uncalled for
IT was June 4, 1989. About 100 000 students massed together at Tiananmen Square in Beijing. They had been there for weeks. Their demands were...
Co-operatives unit to set up distress fund
MASERU — The department of co-operatives says it is in the process of setting up a fund to provide financial assistance to co-operatives in distress....
Annual inflation drops further to 3.1 percent
MASERU — Lesotho’s annual inflation dropped to 3.1 percent last month, a 0.2 percentage point drop from the previous month’s rate of 3.3 percent, according...
Lioli expel players
MASERU — Lioli stars Sello ‘Muso, Mohapi Ntobo, Brown Makobe and recent signing Baholo Sefatsa have been dismissed by the club. The quartet has been...
. . . as another star leaves for Cameroon tryout
MASERU — Another player who could be on his way out of Lioli but for completely different reasons is winger Montoeli Sonopo. After the 17-year-old...
Athletes might lose Soweto winnings
MASERU — Six local athletes might be forced to forfeit their Soweto Marathon prize monies for competing without clearance letters from the national authority. This...
Roof of Africa kicks off
MASERU — The Roof of Africa off-road race starts today with 262 riders from around the globe expected to give defending champion Chris Birch a...
DJ shoots daughter’s boyfriend
Khahliso Khama MASERU — Popular PC FM presenter DJ Counter Force last Friday allegedly shot a teenager who is in love with his stepdaughter. Counter...
BNP wins battle for headquarters
MASERU — Victory at last. For three years the Basotho National Party (BNP) has been fighting to regain control of its headquarters from Stefan Carl...
Watershed conference for LCD
MASERU — The ruling Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) party will hold its annual leadership conference this weekend. The conference, which begins on Saturday, comes...
Ntsie recounts shooting incident
MASERU — Television cameraman Habofanoe Ntsie on Tuesday told the High Court that he was acting in self-defence when he shot and killed two men...
Diamond dealers appear in court
MASERU — Two men from Rustenburg, South Africa, appeared in the Butha-Buthe Magistrate’s Court last week after they were caught in possession of diamonds and...
Suicide stalls murder trial
MASERU — The High Court on Tuesday postponed a case in which eight police officers are facing a murder charge after a police officer who...
NUL lecturers strike, exams cancelled
ROMA – Researchers and lecturers at the National University of Lesotho (NUL) on Monday went on an “indefinite” strike forcing the university management to postpone...
LCD youths disrupt poll
MASERU — An elective conference for the Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) party’s Stadium Area constituency youth committee was aborted on Sunday after protests from...
. . . as former minister attacks league leader
MASERU — The Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD)’s deputy secretary-general Lebohang Nts’inyi on Sunday accused the party’s youth league chairman Thuso Litjobo of dragging her...
Will an early election fix Zim?
HARARE — Christmas is almost a month away and Zimbabweans better enjoy this one to the hilt. Next year’s might not be very good. Remember...
Leave no stone unturned in education overhaul
EDUCATION Minister Mampono Khaketla must leave no stone unturned in the government’s push for total transformation of the education sector. Her intervention was long overdue....
Schools must shape up or ship out
I HAVE a soft spot for school teachers. As one who was in the “trenches” at one point, I know their daily struggles. I know...
Why Africa needs such women
LAST week, I wondered how many African women were excited by one particular international story — the release from house arrest of the Burmese democracy...
Lesotho slumps in business index
MASERU — Lesotho has slumped to position 138 out of 183 countries in the Ease of Doing Business report for 2011 which was released by...
Lesotho Flour Mills in prices U-turn
MASERU — Lesotho Flour Mills made a dramatic U-turn this week when it announced there will be no major price increases for grains following the...
No food for the lazy legislator
WHAT do you call an indolent person — mostly with a loud mouth, rotund cheeks or a potbelly — who shamelessly “chows” taxpayers’ money for...
No bonuses for Makoanyane XI
MASERU — Sports Minister ‘Mathabiso Lepono has ruled out giving bonuses to Lesotho’s Under-20s for qualifying for next year’s African Youth Championship in Libya. She...