Lesotho urged to clamp down graft
MASERU — Lesotho’s natural resources can spur the country’s economic growth if the government clamps down on corrupt activities within the mining sector, a consultant...
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Local hotel launches new-look gym, beauty salon
MASERU — Lesotho Sun International last Thursday launched a new spa and beauty salon as part of the hotel’s upgrading programme. The reopening of the...
Bantu sign hitman Boseka
MASERU — Bantu has completed the signing of Mosiuoa Boseka from Swallows for the second highest transfer fee in Lesotho football history. The 18-year-old playmaker...
Lioli upgrade stadium
MASERU — Lioli will spend M120 000 to erect a fence around its home ground in Teyateyaneng before the start of the season. Work started...
Basotho youths off to Fifa football festival
MASERU — Eight Basotho youngsters left the country for Johannesburg, South Africa, on Sunday to compete in the Fifa 2010 Football for Hope Festival. The...
Billy faces axe
Powerful ABC clique wants No 3 man out MASERU — A powerful clique within the main opposition All Basotho Convention (ABC) party is mulling...
SA to vet travel permit holders
MASERU — South Africa will with effect from today only grant six-month travel permits to Lesotho citizens classified as frequent travellers to the neigbouring country....
Rogue soldiers jailed
MASERU — Three army officers were on Tuesday jailed after they were found guilty of killing a police officer during political disturbances that rocked the...
Lawyer wants evidence rejected
MASERU — A defence lawyer has opposed an application by a state prosecutor asking the High Court to accept incriminating statements made by eight accused...
‘Company can fire Mohaleroe’
Ruling brings long-running court battle to an end MASERU — The long-running row over the ownership of a transport firm ended on Tuesday after...
Cellphone service to help passport applicants
MASERU — The Ministry of Home Affairs plans to introduce a system that will make it possible for people who have applied for passports to...
Rape suspect tests HIV positive
MASERU — She took a piece of a birthday cake to a gardener at the family home. But the gardener was not satisfied with the...
‘We need specific law to curb domestic violence’
MASERU — Joale Nkoale and his family in Peka, Leribe, about 60 kilometres north of Maseru, are still in shock. His son, Ntsoeta Nkoale, 14,...
LTDC in internet marketing drive
MASERU — The Lesotho Tourism Development Corporation (LTDC) last Friday launched a new website to market the country to tourists. Speaking at the official launch...
Majantja in turmoil
MASERU — Majantja are in turmoil amid speculation the club’s president Sello Matete is about to throw in the towel. Tensions have been simmering...
Coaches shun body over mess
MASERU — The Lesotho Coaching Association (LCA) is in shambles with the football organisation struggling to retain membership since allegations of financial embezzlement surfaced. A...
Minister, MP clash
MASERU — An opposition MP for Motimposo constituency, Pitso Maisa and Forestry Minister Ralechete ’Mokose are at each other’s throats over the alleged theft of...
Lehohla lambasts Thabane
… describes ABC leader’s unity government calls as ‘loose talk’ MASERU — Deputy Prime Minister Lesao Lehohla yesterday described as “loose talk” calls by...
Matete scoffs at BNP faction
MASERU — Re-elected Basotho National Party (BNP) secretary general Ranthomeng Matete has distanced himself from the faction opposed to the former ruling party leader Metsing...
No lawyers in small claims court
Litigants will not need legal representation MASERU — The Ministry of Justice plans to bar lawyers from the planned small claims court in a...
Woman sues hubby’s lover for M2 million
MASERU — A Maseru woman is suing a National Assembly clerk for M2 million for allegedly being involved in an adulterous relationship with her husband....
‘Phofoolo can sue Chaltin’
MASERU — A magistrate’s court has ruled that Maseru lawyer Haae Phoofolo was free to proceed with his claim for payment from retired politician Chaltin...
Villagers hand over illegal guns to police
MOKHOTLONG — Villagers in Lipohong in Mokhotlong last Friday handed in nine illegal firearms as the police stepped up efforts to clear illegal firearms. Police...
Chalimo breaks new ground
Local firm sends trio to world’s diamond capital MASERU — A local company, Chalimo Limited, is sending three trainees to Antwerp, Belgium, to gain...
‘I have big plans for Mothae Mine: Mpatuoa’
MASERU — Nyakallo Mpatuoa, 55, who was appointed the managing director at Mothae Diamonds last week, has always been fascinated by rocks. Her love for...
Makoanyane XI go down to Botswana
Lesotho Under-20……(0) 0 Botswana…………………(0) 1 MASERU — Botswana coach Stanley Tshosane was annoyed Lesotho put out the national Under-20 side for their...
PM’s son off the hook
Inquest absolves Mosisili of manslaughter MASERU — Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili’s son has escaped a possible manslaughter charge after an unusual inquest concluded he...
Famo pair appeal conviction, freed
MASERU — Two men who The two, Puseletso Motsoaole, 28, and Thabiso Roeli, 26, from Thabana-Morena in Mafeteng were released on Monday last week after...
Senior government official dies
MASERU — The deputy director in the Ministry of Communications, Science and Technology, Thabiso Makintane, died in Maseru last Saturday after a short illness. Mankitane,...
Troubled newspaper suspends operations
MASERU — A local newspaper, The Guardian, has folded after only two weeks on the streets due to financial problems, the Lesotho Times has learnt....