Development with women in mind
“If you are in a house and want to see what is happening outside, look through the window and not through the mirror” — Dr...
Category : News
The Latest News
Who killed Muammar Gadaffi?
MOST Africans today would be worrying about the wherewithal of their next meal. This is not the idle observation of someone inclined to see most...
It’s time we broke the silence about depression
I have just realised I am at the epitome of my so-called depression! Seems when you are at this stage you get tired of being...
Oh no, not Nigeria again
THERE was a time when sympathy for the DRC among many Africans just dried up. Although this vast country has been independent since 1960, its...
Good things do come to an end
MOST things end. That is a fact of life and of nature. What we have to do as human beings is accept this; pick up...
Angry chief stops burials at gunpoint
MASERU — A Mafeteng principal chief is alleged to have blocked the burial of two people at gunpoint last week saying they did not have...
Mob justice for robbery suspects
MASERU — Two men are recovering in hospital after they were beaten by an angry mob for allegedly robbing a supermarket in Pitseng, Leribe, on...
Girls to be immunised against cervical cancer
MASERU — The Ministry of Health will on Monday launch a national immunisation campaign against cancer of the cervix for girls between the ages of...
Civil servants get 3% pay increase
By Teboho Molapo and Bongiwe Zihlangu MASERU — Finance Minister Timothy Thahane yesterday awarded a three percent salary increase to civil servants. But in an...
What the hell do we want from SA?
Apart from wining there is nothing we do better as Basotho than mourning. We moan about everything: from our own government to the governments of...
SA high commissioner summoned
MASERU — Foreign Affairs Minister Mohlabi Tsekoa last week summoned South Africa’s High Commissioner to Lesotho Happy Mahlangu after he criticised his comments that the...
What politicians said . . .
MASERU — Political leaders yesterday expressed mixed feelings about the 2012/2013 budget presented by Finance Minister Timothy Thahane. Home affairs deputy minister Lineo Molise lauded...
Old age pensions increased
By Lineo Pene MASERU — The government has increased old age pensions from the current M300 to M350 per month with effect from April 1. Finance...
Thahane wants parents to help educate their own children
MASERU — Parents should seriously consider contributing towards their children’s education as the government can no longer afford to go it alone, Finance Minister Timothy...
Sacu revenue boosts budget
MASERU — Finance Minister Timothy Thahane yesterday presented a M13.7 billion budget that some economic commentators described as exceptional. Thahane said the government was able...
LCD youth leader Bulane dies
MASERU — Controversial Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) youth league secretary general, Lebaka Bulane, died on Monday in a car accident. Bulane, 31, who was...
IEC gets M51 million to organise election
MASERU — The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) has been allocated M51 million to organise this year’s election. The government is yet to announce the election...
Police get M150 million
By Mathabang Fobo MASERU — The government has allocated M150 million to the Lesotho Mounted Police Services (LMPS) for the construction of houses and refurbishment...
Boy killed in gruesome attack
BEREA — It’s a solemn atmosphere at the Seetsa family in Koalabata, a village on the outskirts of Maseru. On Sunday the Seetsa family had...
Thahane pleads for low bank charges
By Tebello Moalosi MASERU — Finance Minister, Timothy Thahane yesterday appealed to commercial banks to lower service charges to encourage people to deposit their monies....
Lesotho to weed out corrupt civil servants
MASERU — The government is conducting a forensic audit to weed out corrupt civil servants, Finance Minister Timothy Thahane said yesterday. Thahane was answering questions...
Government to assess new capital projects
MASERU — The government will in the next five years subject all new capital projects to strict appraisal mechanisms to assess their contributions to economic...
Gender rank and ordinary women
By the time you read this Lesotho’s national budget for 2012/13 would have been announced. A look at where women stand will build a background against...
ANC government is not a ‘regime’: Tsekoa
On Tuesday January 10, 2012, I addressed a press conference in my office during which I briefed the media about Lesotho’s attendance of the ANC...
Top judge’s stained past exposed
MASERU — Justice John Lyons, an Australian judge seconded to Lesotho by the Commonwealth, has a controversial past. At his appointment to head Lesotho High...
Of turncoats and political prostitutes
A prostitute is a man or woman who engages in a sexual activity for payment. In other countries like Germany and The Netherlands prostitution is a...
Disgruntled MP says he will
MASERU — An MP who crossed the floor to the Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) is now planning to contest the general election as an...
Lesotho launches M50 million Partial Credit Guarantee Fund
MASERU — Finance Minister Timothy Thahane has urged Basotho youths to apply for loans under the government’s M50 million credit guarantee scheme. Thahane was speaking...
Clerk wants top judge probed
MASERU – A judge’s clerk has asked the Judicial Services Commission (JSC) to investigate Justice John Lyons, an Australian judge seconded to Lesotho by the...
NUL’s law faculty dean resigns in protest
MASERU — The dean of the law faculty at the National University of Lesotho (NUL), Attorney Qhalehang Letsika, has resigned in protest over the varsity’s...