Lesotho, Maseru Sun hotels sold
’Mantoetse Maama Hotel conglomerate, Sun International, has sold its shares in various businesses located in Botswana, Zambia, Lesotho, Namibia and Swaziland to Minor International...
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Lonmin to cut up to 5700 jobs
JOHANNESBURG/LONDON – Platinum producer Lonmin aims to cut around 5,700 jobs, about 21 percent of its South African workforce, as part of a drive...
SA soldiers died in CAR while generals dithered
While South African soldiers were fighting for their lives in the CAR last year, a different battle was going on back at defence headquarters. Internal...
Prominent Lesotho businessman arrested in SA
Lekhetho Ntsukunyane PROMINENT Lesotho businessman, Edward Poone, was arrested in Kimberley, South Africa, on Friday last week for allegedly illegally dealing in diamonds. Mr...
Thetsane, Makhethe recount “horror eviction”
Public Prosecutor Leaba Thetsane and Attorney General Tšokolo Makhethe still coming to terms with their unceremonious removal from office Keiso Mohloboli Director of Public...
Daggers drawn over prorogation protest
ABC-linked UTTA accused of planning to stop next week’s LCD-led march Billy Ntaote and Bongiwe Zihlangu Lesotho will sit on a knife edge on...
Battle for NUL top post intensifies
. . . as Sejanamane contests Mahao appointment Keiso Mohloboli NATIONAL University of Lesotho (NUL) Acting Vice Chancellor Mafa Sejanamane is challenging the appointment...
Health PS in the dock
Tefo Tefo THE High Court on Monday this week ordered the Ministry of Health Principal Secretary (PS), Lefu Manyokole, to apologise “within two days”,...
Moleleki trial postponed due to ‘worsening’ health
Tefo Tefo THE corruption trial of former Natural Resources Minister Monyane Moleleki has been postponed yet again due to his illness. The case was...
. . . as Metsing justifies protest
Bongiwe Zihlangu DEPUTY Prime Minister (DPM) Mothetjoa Metsing is hoping next Monday’s “peaceful march” against the current prorogation of parliament would “finally drive the...
SADC just bullying Lesotho
THE Constitution of Lesotho, 1993, reads, and I will quote extensively: Section 1 (1) — “Lesotho shall be a sovereign democratic kingdom”. Section 82...
Could Grace Mugabe be Zim’s next president?
It came as a surprise on Saturday 26th July in Mazowe, Harare, when during her 49th birthday celebrations Zimbabwean first lady Grace Mugabe accepted a vote from...
Ebola: SA ‘erring on the side of caution’, says Motsoaledi
South Africa became the newest in a line of countries to institute travel bans due to the worsening Ebola outbreak in West Africa. South Africa...
We will not be intimidated: Motsamai
Billy Ntaote THE Lesotho Council of Nongovernmental Organisations (LCN) leadership yesterday vowed to continue lobbying for “peace and a stable democracy” regardless of allegations...
Fears of violence scuttle Thabane ‘hero’s welcome’
Billy Ntaote THE All Basotho Convention (ABC) and Basotho National Party (BNP) have cancelled plans for party supporters to descend on Moshoeshoe I International...
Moleleki to know fate next week
Tefo Tefo ARGUMENTS on whether former Natural Resources Minister, Monyane Moleleki’s corruption case should proceed or not would be made on Tuesday next...
‘Large’ quantity of ARVs stolen
’Mantoetse Maama The police are yet to make any arrests regarding the theft of antiretroviral (ARV) drugs from Paki Health Centre of Mazenod two...
Civil society battles to clear name
…accused of sabotaging Lesotho’s SADC Organ chairmanship Billy Ntaote THE Lesotho Council of Nongovernmental Organisations (LCN) leaders are fighting to clear themselves of any...
Four Fokothi students charged with murder
Tefo Tefo FOUR Lerotholi Polytechnic students appeared before the Maseru Magistrate’s Court on Monday this week charged with two counts of murder. The students...
Lesotho pays heavy price for instability
Bongiwe Zihlangu LESOTHO failed to secure the highly anticipated Southern African Development Community (SADC) Organ on Politics, Defence and Security Cooperation chairmanship on Sunday...
SADC snub must be a lesson to Lesotho: analysts
Bongiwe Zihlangu FAILURE by Lesotho to secure the chairmanship of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Organ on Politics, Defence and Security Cooperation (OPDS),...
Court martial reserves judgment in brigadier’s case
Tefo Tefo THE fate of suspended Lesotho Defence Force (LDF) Brigadier, Maaparankoe Mahao, is still hanging in the balance after the Military Court on...
Govt denies selling US property
Govt denies selling US property . . . American media reports claim Lesotho has sold, for $7.6 million, a Manhattan building government acquired in 1989...
Minister in quandary as Zaly reports for work
Keiso Mohloboli THE Minister of Communications, Science and Technology, Selibe Mochoboroane, found himself with two principal secretaries (PS) this week, leaving him at a...
Stakeholders meet over Mokhotlong abattoir
Lekhetho Ntsukunyane TALKS aimed at resolving a “misunderstanding” between Letšeng Diamond Mine and the Maluti Community Development Forum (MCDF) over the proposed establishment of...
The ideal of Pan Africanism is dead
By Vince Musewe There is no country in Africa, besides Botswana, that has not borne the burden of a liberation struggle elite that simply inherited...
Premier’s attending US-Africa Summit commendable
EVERY working day of the week 40 000-odd workers, the majority of them women, briskly walk to their work stations in the textile factories...
Floor-crossing a bane for democracy
FLOOR-CROSSING in parliament has become a very contentious issue in our politics. The practice has occurred for different reasons such as when a Member...
Govt must target Gross Domestic Wellbeing
IF the government can make some people better off without making anyone worse off, who could possibly object? It is the role of the government...
Govt mining policy ‘to deliver growth’
Letuka Chafotsa THE Ministry of Mining, on Tuesday, held a stakeholder consultative meeting following the completion of the Mining and Minerals Policy consultation process...