The case for a basic income grant in Lesotho
SEVERE poverty and high unemployment in Lesotho threaten social stability and long-term growth prospects, underscoring the compelling need for social security reform. Recent research in...
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Is social entrepreneurship the key to women’s challenges?
SOCIAL entrepreneurship is one of those terms which is gaining popularity in various media and it has been stretched to include all manner of charitable...
Turning sovereignty into a dirty word
THE sovereignty of a nation is almost sacrosanct. I say “almost” because there are leaders who have abused this status. In the most recent examples...
‘No pay increase for NUL lecturers’
MASERU — The government says there is no money to pay the 15 percent salary increase that striking National University of Lesotho (NUL) lecturers and...
2 soldiers shot dead
MASERU — Two Lesotho Defence Force (LDF) soldiers were shot dead on Tuesday morning while on duty at Health Minister Mphu Ramatlapeng’s residence in Maseru...
Envoy to SA calls for dual citizenship
MASERU — Lesotho’s envoy to South Africa is allegedly lobbying for dual citizenship for Basotho nationals in South Africa in a move that has angered...
Cowards in our midst
I N the United States they used to lynch black people. White men, especially the conservative ilk, were at the forefront of this barbaric habit....
LCD suspends polls in Qacha’s Nek
QACHA’S NEK — A primary election in which Local Government Minister Ponts’o Sekatle was supposed to face a fierce challenge from a former district administrator...
14-year-old jailed for raping toddlers
MASERU — A 14-year-old Leribe boy will spend the next six years in a juvenile centre after he was found guilty of raping two five-year-old...
Man kills girlfriend, buries her in garden
MASERU — He killed his girlfriend and buried her body in a garden. And for two weeks he claimed he knew nothing about her whereabouts....
Bill to control food quality
MASERU — The days of shops selling rotten and expired foodstuffs could soon be over after cabinet last week approved a bill that seeks to...
Chase for education loan defaulters begins
MASERU — The chase has begun. This week the National Manpower Development Secretariat (NMDS) began sending letters to employers in Lesotho asking them to submit...
Judge dismisses bank’s absolution case
MASERU — The High Court on Monday dismissed an application by First National Bank (FNB) to be absolved from a case in which a client...
Mosisili to launch 16 days Days of Activism campaign
MASERU — Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili is today expected to officially launch the start of the 16 days of activism against gender violence. The Ministry...
Cop sues for M450 000
MASERU — A police officer is suing the police commissioner for M450 000 after he was shot and seriously injured by the police during a...
More than half of Lesotho’s children live in poverty
MASERU — More than half of all children in Lesotho are living in absolute poverty. This is according to the latest figures released by the...
Standard Bank crowned the best investment bank
MASERU — Standard Bank has been named the best investment bank in Africa for 2011 in the EMEA Finance magazine awards. In a statement the...
World Bank funds water projects
MASERU — Lesotho and the World Bank last Thursday signed financing agreements worth US$23 million (about M189 million) for the Metolong Dam and Water Supply...
NMDS must find reasons why former students are defaulting
By Ma’eka Makôkô I READ with shock a story in the Lesotho Times recently that the National Manpower Development Secretariat (NMDS) is planning to chase...
Attack on journalists misguided and uncalled for
IT is every Mosotho’s democratic right to protest and voice their concerns on issues affecting them. This is exactly what the coalition of taxi operators,...
Good news for women in business
IN the Sunday Times edition of November 13, the American management guru Tom Peters stated that “the world has entered the age of Womenomics”. He...
US, Europe paying for looting Africa?
IT was bound to happen: one of our soothsayers — sangomas or ngakas— was bound to stumble upon “the truth”: Europe and the United States...
It’s tough to be young in Lesotho
IT IS tough being young and gifted in our beautiful mountainous country. . . kapa joang! Actually, it is tough being the youth in Lesotho...
Pay increase for top civil servants
MASERU — The government is planning to review salaries of directors and managers in the civil service with effect from next month, the Lesotho Times...
Tough time for MKM liquidators
MASERU — MKM liquidators have warned of tough times ahead amid fears the company’s directors could seek to throw spanners into the liquidation process. The...
A fat excuse of a university
I T’S been only three years since Lesotho imported Limkokwing University from Malaysia, purportedly to educate our people. Yet in that short time Limkokwing has...
Talks fail to break NUL deadlock
MASERU — Talks aimed at breaking the impasse between management and lecturers at the National University of Lesotho (NUL) ended in deadlock on Monday, the...
Suspect abducted, tortured then handed over to SA police
MASERU — Lesotho’s police abducted and tortured a Mosotho man before illegally handing him over to South Africa to stand trial for unlawful escape and...
Wanted man shot dead in Mafeteng
MASERU — Police on Sunday shot dead a Mafeteng man who was wanted in connection with the murder of two famo musicians earlier this year....
Little-known Litšiba is new ABC secretary
MASERU — The All Basotho Convention (ABC) party has appointed little-known Koro-Koro constituency member Thabiso Lits’iba as the party’s new secretary general. Lits’iba, 56, who...