Sacu courts heads of state
MASERU — The Southern African Customs Union (Sacu) wants stronger participation from heads of state and governments to give guidance to the regional body, Prime...
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Consumers struggle to pay bills for basics
MASERU — A recent survey conducted by the Bureau of Statistics has revealed that the majority of Basotho cannot pay their bills for critical services...
Taole vows to crush Lioli
MASERU –— Matlama coach Ntebele Taole (pictured) has put his head on the block saying he will “leave coaching” if his charges lose their title-decider...
Minister throws weight behind Lefa
MASERU — Sports Minister ‘Mathabiso Lepono has thrown her weight behind the Lesotho Football Association (Lefa) in the week the soccer body allegedly bunked a...
Notsi to beef up squad
MASERU — Makoanyane XI coach Leslie Notsi has called for intensive preparations ahead of his side’s next Caf Under-20 Youth Championship qualifier against South Africa....
Rematch to decide league promotion
MASERU — The team to join the Premier League from the first division’s Northern Stream will only be known next Thursday after promotion rivals Maduma...
Football hooligans disrupt match again
MAZENOD — Unruly behaviour has once again reared its ugly head in domestic football with the latest incident forcing match officials to call off the...
Looters off the hook
MASERU — If there is anyone who looted the block farming fund they should not lose sleep as the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has...
MP attacks prosecutions boss
MASERU — The executive and Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) have played a major role in undermining the administration of justice, an opposition MP has...
Mosisili launches youth project
MASERU — Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili yesterday said youths have a key role to play in the development of the country. Mosisili was speaking at...
MPs grill minister over youth project
MASERU — Opposition MPs drove Youth Minister ‘Mathabiso Lepono to the brink of tears with hostile responses after she announced the launch of the National...
8-year jail term for convicted accountant upheld
MASERU — A former accountant of the Lesotho Highlands Development Authority (LHDA), Peggy Thakeli, will spend the next eight years behind bars after the Court...
Soldier gets 10 years for murder
MASERU — A Lesotho Defence Force (LDF) soldier will spend the next decade in prison after the Court of Appeal on Friday upheld his two...
Granny sexually assaulted
MASERU — A 22-year-old man from Marabeng appeared in the Maseru Magistrate’s Court on Monday charged with the sexual assault of an 85-year-old granny last...
Fined for growing dagga
MASERU — A 64-year-old man from Ha-‘Masana last week told the Maseru Magistrate’s Court that the 160 marijuana plants that police had found in his...
A new chapter for drug abusers
THABA-BOSIU — It all started as an experiment in 1997. Pule (not his real name) was just 12. An experimental sip of the ‘holy waters’...
Unions in wrangle over Workers’ Day
MASERU — There is discord within Lesotho’s trade unions. The leadership of the trade union movement is singing from different hymn books. The Lesotho Congress...
Ambassador urges business to take advantage of Expo
MASERU — The Chinese ambassador to Lesotho, Professor Gao Deyi, on Tuesday told local entrepreneurs to take advantage of the business opportunities brought by the...
Fifa official blasts Lefa
MASERU — Fifa development officer Ashford Mamelodi says Lesotho has moved very little in implementing the recommendations in the Mohale Declaration, a roadmap designed to...
Matlama put on hold
MASERU — Matlama might have to wait before they can finally pop the champagne as the new kings of Lesotho football if Lioli beat Linare...
Thahane threatened us: farmers
MASERU — A group of block farmers claims that Finance Minister Timothy Thahane has threatened to sue them if they don’t repay the government-guaranteed loans...
NSS agent convicted of robbery
MASERU — A National Security Services (NSS) secret agent and his wife were on Tuesday each sentenced to four years in prison for robbery. The...
New exam for drivers
MASERU — The Road Safety Department says it will today launch a new driver training and examination system in an effort to reduce fatalities on...
BAC leader steps down
MASERU — Khauhelo Ralitapole, the leader of the Basutoland African Congress (BAC), says she is stepping down “to make way for new blood”, the Lesotho...
Parliament postpones local government elections
MASERU — Parliament this week agreed to postpone the local government elections by twelve months after it passed the Local Government (Amendment) Bill 2010. The...
Race for Mpharane hots up
MASERU — The race for the May 22 by-election has kicked off in the Mpharane constituency in Mohale’s Hoek. Seven candidates — three independents and...
Judge withdraws from police boss’ graft case
MASERU — High Court judge ’Maseforo Mahase on Monday withdrew from a civil case in which Police Commissioner ’Malejaka Letooane is facing trial for...
Money lenders case postponed to October
MASERU — The Court of Appeal last Friday postponed a case between civil servants and money lending firms to October to allow the two parties...
MSF brings hope to Aids patients
MASERU — In 2006, 44-year-old Lekhokoho Kokome was on the verge of despair. Two years earlier Kokome had been diagnosed with HIV, the virus that...
Let’s curb music piracy
IN an article in the April 15 — 21 issue of the Lesotho Times, Ntsebeng Motsoeli shed important light on the subject of music piracy....