Category : News

Ntsebeng Motsoeli SMALL Business Development, Cooperatives and Marketing minister, Chalane Phori, finally tabled amendments to his controversial wool and mohair regulations but the opposition immediately...

Mohalenyane Phakela HIGH Court judge Tšeliso Monapathi will hopefully end the battle for the control of the All Basotho Convention (ABC) when he delivers judgment...

Ntsebeng Motsoeli LEGISLATORS who participated in violent clashes in parliament last Thursday have defiled the August House by making it a crime scene, Speaker Sephiri...

Mohalenyane Phakela THE High Court will no longer finalise the murder trial of three soldiers accused of killing Lisebo Tang on 9 May 2014 after...

Ntsebeng Motsoeli LESOTHO Council of Non-Governmental Organisations (LCN) has suspended its treasurer, Mokome Monaheng, for allegedly resisting an order to implement a proposal to increase...

Bereng Mpaki A LABOUR dispute between cannabis firm, Medigrow Lesotho (Pty) Ltd and its fired employees, has been elevated to the Labour Court after the...

Nthatuoa Koeshe LESOTHO has been urged to strengthen its media bodies to enable them to effectively fight for the rights of the country’s media. Southern...

’Marafaele Mohloboli THE High Court in the Free State has jailed seven police officers for contravening the Immigration Act by facilitating the illegal movement of...

Mohalenyane Phakela The Constitutional Court (ConCourt) has, for the second time, dismissed with costs, former Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) chairperson Mahapela Lehohla’s bid to stay...

Pascalinah Kabi FOUR ministers namely – Prince Maliehe, Chalane Phori, Mokoto Hloaele and Machesetsa Mofomobe – have now been named in a M26 million tender...

says leaders must reform themselves first laws alone cannot save Lesotho  Ntsebeng Motsoeli/Pascalinah Kabi KING Letsie III has warned that if local political leaders do...

Bereng Mpaki SEVERAL business people are stranded after the Ministry of Trade and Industry’s online company registry system went offline last week. The online registry...

Pascalinah Kabi LESOTHO’S 14 foreign missions are in limbo, as some of the diplomats have not been paid for months while others are forced to...

Pascalinah Kabi THE government secretary, Moahloli Mphaka, yesterday dared the Selibe Mochoboroane-chaired parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC) to approach the courts and challenge the deployment...

Mohalenyane Phakela LESOTHO Defence Force’s (LDF) Major Pitso Ramoepana has been given temporary relief after the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) dropped charges against him...

Ntsebeng Motsoeli DEMOCRATIC Congress (DC) leader, Mathibeli Mokhothu, has threatened to sue Speaker of Parliament, Sephiri Motanyane, if he does not reverse his decision to...

’Marafaele Mohloboli OPPOSITION leaders say they will today challenge Speaker of Parliament Sephiri Motanyane’s decision to discard the motion of no confidence against Prime Minister...

Staff Writer TO MARK the 30th anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) today, the GSMA, building on UNICEF’s child...

as climate change threatens water project Pascalinah Kabi LESOTHO has resumed transferring water to South Africa amid concerns about the adverse effects of climate change...

Bataung Moeketsi  DESPITE being conscious of its devastating effects, just 24 percent of Basotho are conscious of what climate change really is, a recently published...

Mohalenyane Phakela JUSTICE Tšeliso Monapathi has postponed to 6 February 2020 a case in which Acting Chief Justice ‘Maseforo Mahase’s husband Thabiso and son, Teboho,...

 pleads with First Lady and ABC officials to allow him to rest says he has lost his mojo and has become an “international embarrassment” Mohalenyane...

Pascalinah Kabi SPEAKER of Parliament Sephiri Motanyane has thrown out a no confidence motion against Prime Minister Thomas Thabane saying it has no basis in...

additional charges stem from the August 2014 attempted coup against Thabane’s first govt Mohalenyane Phakela/Pascalinah Kabi FORMER army commander, Lieutenant General Tlali Kamoli, and others...

Following the Lesotho Times article published last week, titled ‘DCEO INVESTIGATES FORMER BANK CHIEF FOR ALLEGED CORRUPTION’, I, Mpho Vumbukani have sought the right of...

Staff Reporter THE government is nowhere near securing a financial rescue package from the International Money Fund (IMF), almost 18 months after it first began...

says burglary stems from “baseless claims” that he keeps M10 million cash from tenders ’Marafaele Mohloboli THE Principal Secretary in the Ministry of Public Works,...

Pascalinah Kabi PARLIAMENT has slowed a joint bid by the opposition and disgruntled All Basotho Convention (ABC) legislators to expedite the overthrow of Prime Minister...

Staff Reporter THE new royal palace building in Maseru is almost complete and could be officially handed over to their majesties next July, the principal...