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FINANCE Minister Timothy Thahane recently visited the National University of Lesotho (NUL) to speak about the Public-Private Partnerships (PPP). In his speech, Thahane told students...
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CCTV and right to privacy
SOMETIME this year Basotho will elect their representatives in the Local Government Elections. They will also elect their representatives in the National Assembly next year....
‘Phaphamang basali!’ says ILO
“Women Arise!” That’s the slogan of the upcoming International Labour Organisation (ILO) “Month of the Woman Entrepreneur” (MOWE) seminar to be held in August in...
Western development model falls flat in Africa
The World Economic Forum (WEF), like similar institutions and forums, is fascinating in many respects. The same goes for the WEF on Africa, which met...
Africa’s leadership crisis
IN this month, when we commemorate the founding of the Organisation of African Unity in 1963, South Africa held fairly free and fair local government elections....
When cellphones are in wrong hands
EISH, cellular phones can be a nuisance, especially when used by the wrong minds. These contraptions can turn good people bad…serious! People do not mind...
It’s pay back time for MKM
MASERU — The High Court has ruled that MKM should be liquidated and its assets sold to pay back 400 000 Basotho who invested in...
Fresh twist to coup plot suspects trial
MASERU — The trial of seven men who allegedly attempted to assassinate Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili in 2009 took a new twist in the High...
Judge’s sister shot
MASERU — High Court judge Justice Nthomeng Majara escaped death by a whisker on Saturday night when her younger sister, who was in her company,...
Mosisili hints at retirement
MASERU — Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili on Tuesday hinted at his retirement. He told a press conference on Tuesday that he is not planning to...
Prisoner sodomised
MASERU — The Maseru magistrate’s court has reserved judgment in a case in which an inmate at the Maseru Central Prison was on trial for...
Spooked by poker
I f you are a high school dropout or someone not so smart who lost their money to Simon Thebe-ea-Khale’s thieving scheme called MKM, then...
‘Legalise prostitution to curb HIV’
MASERU — Lesotho and other countries in the region should consider legalising prostitution if the continent is to meet its target of completely stopping new...
‘Gays are also God’s children’
MASERU — He was a hero among the gay community in South Africa. But he died young, at the age of 41, of an Aids-related...
Why humanities remain relevant
“All happy families are alike but an unhappy family is unhappy after its own fashion” (Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenin). THIS opening line from Tolstoy’s Anna...
Can any woman be an entrepreneur?
SOME experts take exception to the word “entrepreneur” being used to describe anyone from a vegetable vendor to Richard Branson. Fox and Rooyen identified some...
Is this the end-game for Gadaffi?
BY the end of last week, a senior Nato official said if Muammar Gadaffi was killed in one of their air attacks, this would be...
Service delivery in government is appalling
OUR country is rated as a Third World country. I believe there is nothing lower than that. The sad thing is that it might never...
Letšeng Diamonds empowers farmers
MOKHOTLONG — Wool and mohair farmers in Mokhotlong say they expect to increase production from the current three million to 10 million tonnes after they...
Mazenod High tops tax debate
MASERU — Mazenod High School last Friday won M5 000 and a floating trophy in a debating competition organised by the Lesotho Revenue Authority (LRA)....
Botswana College courts Basotho
MASERU — A private college, Botho College, this week conducted a two-day exhibition aimed at recruiting students to study in Botswana. Keefelakae Moloi (pictured above),...
‘Maile Mosisili killed over M20 million’
MASERU — Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili’s son Maile was killed by an army officer in 2002 after he refused to release M20 million deposited into...
Selomo: man of peace is no more
MASERU — Peace is what he wanted. Brutal violence is what abruptly ended his life on Saturday night. By the time his enemies pumped eight...
Thabane looks back at Selomo’s chequered life
MASERU — All Basotho Convention (ABC) leader Thomas Thabane is one of the people who contributed to the transformation of Lephatšoe “Selomo” Lebajoa from a...
I was never interviewed: Ntsie’s wife
MASERU — The wife of television cameraman Habofanoe Ntsie told the High Court yesterday that the police never bothered to interview her despite having witnessed...
Woman burnt to death
MASERU — A 54-year-old woman from Kolo was burnt to death together with her two-year-old grandchild last Friday. The two were sleeping at night when...
BNP court battle to resume
MASERU — Talks to bring sanity within the troubled Basotho National Party (BNP) have collapsed paving way for a bruising court battle later this month,...
Co-operation with other countries important: Sekatle
MASERU — Co-operation with other countries in times of civil strife is inevitable, Public Service Minister Semano Sekatle told parliament yesterday. Sekatle said this in...
Tsepong nurses demand better pay
MASERU — Nurses at Tsepong Clinic are up in arms against their management demanding an improvement in their salaries and working conditions. Tsepong Clinic is...
Teenager deported from SA
MASERU — A 13-year-old boy from Tajane village in Mafeteng has been deported from South Africa after he was found wandering in the streets of...