Mugabe snipes at Zuma over SADC trade protocol
Robert Mugabe has said Jacob Zuma should cooperate with other SADC countries instead of trying to turn the region into a market for SA’s products....
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Ban Ki-moon welcomes fresh Israel, Hamas ceasefire
Following news of a new ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, the UN secretary general has urged the two sides to work towards a longer-term truce....
SADC dons blinkers for summit
This weekend’s Robert Mugabe-chaired pow-wow has drawn fire for ignoring the region’s political crises. Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe will have reason to smile when he...
Poverty should not be seen as a disease
Right now, a long and complicated process is underway to replace the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which expire in 2015, with new Sustainable Development...
Better parliaments for stronger democracies
ALL those democrats of the 7th Parliament, under the Congress government, who took the parliament of Lesotho to new heights to be a member of...
EU launches Lesotho roadmap
Letuka Chafotsa THE European Union (EU) yesterday launched a roadmap for engagement with Lesotho’s civil society for the period 2014 to 2017. The blueprint seeks...
Rand reaps rewards of weaker US, China data
Johannesburg The rand climbed to its strongest levels in two weeks against the dollar, taking advantage of soft economic data out of the world’s two...
Fokothi students warned off colleagues’ burials
Lekhetho Ntsukunyane LEROTHOLI Polytechnic students have been warned not to attend the funerals of their colleagues, Motlatsi Matete and Tokelo Masiu, whose bodies were found...
Metsing puts faith in church leaders
Deputy premier says religious leaders only answer to Lesotho’s political woes Billy Ntaote DEPUTY Prime Minister (DPM) Mothetjoa Metsing says Lesotho should establish an...
Anti-graft body questions source of Metsing’s funds
DCEO wants to know who deposited M446 000 into deputy premier’s Standard Lesotho Bank and Nedbank Lesotho accounts between April 2013 and January 2014...
Metsing fights back
Takes on DCEO in his ongoing corruption probe Tefo Tefo DEPUTY Prime Minister (DPM) Mothetjoa Metsing wants the Constitutional Court to declare the...
Court interdicts Nikuv over passports
Tefo Tefo THE Ministry of Home Affairs obtained an urgent court order on Friday last week, to interdict Nikuv International Projects (NIP) from disrupting or...
Top cop suspended
Assistant Commissioner Ezekiel Senti suspended indefinitely for allegedly leaking confidential information to the media Keiso Mohloboli The Lesotho Mounted Police Service (LMPS) Assistant Commissioner,...
Two nurses brutally killed in Thaba-Bosiu
Keiso Mohloboli TWO female nurses were found dead in a donga in Ha Mosalla village on Tuesday this week, in what detectives said was one...
LCD ends DC alliance today
Bongiwe Zihlangu The Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) is today expected to officially terminate an agreement the party signed on June 11 this year with...
US volunteers start tour of duty
Limpho Sello EIGHTEEN United States Peace Corps were sworn in yesterday by the US Chargé d’Affaires John McNamara during a ceremony held in Ha-Taaso in...
Mahao court martial postponed
Tefo Tefo THE court martial trying suspended Lesotho Defence Force (LDF) Brigadier, Maaparankoe Mahao, has been postponed by one week as one member of the...
Thahane back in court over M24m fraud case
Tefo Tefo ACTING Chief Justice Tšeliso Monaphathi has ordered the prosecution to provide former Energy, Meteorology and Water Affairs Minister, Timothy Thahane with statements of...
Abubaker gives families deadline to vacate homes
Limpho Sello Two Ha Hoohlo families have been given a “last warning and chance” to vacate their homes by Monday next week by the new...
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Letšeng finds ‘exceptional’ diamond
Gem Diamonds Ltd has announced the recovery of a 198-carat white diamond from its flagship Letšeng Mine that should fetch “an exceptional price” when sold...
US commits M354b to Africa
WASHINGTON — Seeking to strengthen America’s financial foothold in Africa, President Barack Obama announced $33 billion (M354 billion) in commitments Tuesday aimed at shifting US...
Heads must roll after Metsing debacle
By Utloang Kajeno I DO not want to spoil the party. Congrats Likuena for beating mighty Kenya. AFCON 2015 in Morocco beckons. I argued a...
The politics of Ebola as deadly as virus
By Joshua Keating THE arrival of a man infected with Ebola virus in Lagos, Nigeria — Africa’s largest city — last week was certainly an...
Nikuv to stop producing passports
. . . as govt grapples with M38m debt Staff Reporters PRODUCTION of new passports for Basotho will stop next week unless the government...
Massive abuse of funds at embassy
Letuka Chafotsa The Office of the Auditor General has released a draft audit of the Lesotho Durban Consulate for the financial years 2009/10 to May...
LCD blames ‘factionalism’ for Metsing’s woes
Keiso Mohloboli A faction within the Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) is pushing for the dismissal of party leader Mothetjoa Metsing and is behind the...
Lesotho’s latest HIV figures worry US
Billy Ntaote WASHINGTON DC — The American government’s Global AIDS Coordinator, Deborah Birx, says Lesotho needs to do more if the country is to win...
MPs withdraw no-confidence motion
Tefo Tefo Three Members of Parliament (MPs) who filed an urgent application in the High Court to block a parliamentary motion to unseat Prime Minister...
Maseru earthquake due to ‘earth ripping apart’
’Mantoetse Maama Maseru experienced a slight tremor on Tuesday this week at around lunchtime, sparking anxious phone-calls between relatives and colleagues. However, not many in...