300 prisoners set free
MASERU — The government has released 303 prisoners to ease congestion in the country’s main prisons. The prisoners were released on September 16, according to...
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The money makers
S crutator is fed up to the back teeth with that bare-bone college called Limkokwing University of Creative Technology that claims to be innovative about...
Strife knocks off LCD manifesto
MASERU — The ruling Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) party has failed to unveil its local government elections manifesto owing to internal wrangles, the Lesotho...
Traffic officer in court for soliciting a bribe
MASERU — A traffic officer who solicited a bribe from a taxi owner appeared in the Mohale’s Hoek Magistrate’s Court on Thursday to answer a...
Unions want varsity boss back
MASERU — Unions at Limkokwing University of Creative Technology (LUCT) want the director of academics, ’Mamolete Mohapi, who resigned last week reinstated with immediate effect....
World class diamond named Letšeng Star
MASERU — The world class white diamond discovered at Letšeng Mine in Mokhotlong last month was on Monday named the Letšeng Star. The 550 carat...
Over 2 700 to graduate
MASERU — At least 2 700 students are expected to graduate from the National University of Lesotho (NUL) on Saturday. The graduation ceremony will also...
Youths want Metsing out
MASERU — The ruling Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) youth league this week slammed secretary general Mothetjoa Metsing for disrespecting party leader Pakalitha Mosisili. Metsing...
Lawyer slams High Court
MASERU — A lawyer who is representing one of two magistrates convicted for defeating the ends of justice this week slammed the High Court for...
MPs appeal against ruling
MASERU — Three ruling Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) officials who earlier this month lost a case to compel the party’s national executive committee to...
Jehovah’s Witnesses convene at Setsoto
MASERU — Setsoto Stadium was last weekend turned into one “big church” when thousands of Jehovah’s Witnesses met for their Let God’s Kingdom Come annual...
Ireland to pursue new strategy in Lesotho
By Ambassador Gerry Gervin LAST Tuesday Ireland’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Eamon Gilmore, launched Ireland’s new Africa Strategy at...
Is Lesotho getting value for its investment in education?
A COUPLE of days ago I spent about a week in Pretoria and while there met a PhD student from Cameroon who recently enrolled for...
Women entrepreneurs: what do they really need?
Women’s development internationally is a relatively young initiative — it’s only in the late 70’s that it became formalised when the 1979 United Nations Convention...
Is Mosisili a dictator as implied in the Wikileaks cable?
Another kind of journalism of its own sort called Wikileaks has hit Lesotho. Many people are baffled as to whether to take Wikileaks’ investigations as...
The ultimate solution for world peace
There is so much strife and heartache in our world as we speak! There are wars, there is famine, there is inequality, there is crime...
I’m no hawk, says Sekatle
MASERU — Local Government Minister Pontšo Sekatle yesterday rubbished allegations made in a United States cable that she is one of the hardliners in the...
MFP merges with new party
MASERU — The Marematlou Freedom Party (MFP) has merged with the Youth Transformation Alliance (YTA), a small party formed and registered in May this year....
Hololo MP could be in trouble over Facebook insults
MASERU — Hololo MP Teboho Letšela could find himself in soup after he allegedly insulted a former Centre for Accounting Studies rector on social network...
Mosisili must craft clear exit blueprint: analysts
MASERU — If the ruling Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) is to survive the internal succession battle party leader Pakalitha Mosisili should come up with...
A very silly MP
When young Teboho Let’sela stumbled into a plum position as the MP for Hololo at the tender age of 23 in 2009 Scrutator silently doubted...
‘Lesotho has jurisdiction to try coup plot suspects’
MASERU — The High Court of Lesotho has jurisdiction to try seven men who are accused of trying to assassinate Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili in...
Sekatle accuses US envoy of betrayal
MASERU — Local Government Minister Ponts’o Sekatle last year accused former US Ambassador to Lesotho, Robert Nolan, of betraying her by engaging in a public...
Tsekoa begged US for support
MASERU — Foreign Affairs Minister Mohlabi Tsekoa in 2007 appealed to the United States embassy to “whisper into the ears of those (in the opposition)...
Libya embassy hoists two flags
MASERU — Lesotho will not take a position on the Libyan political impasse until calm prevails in the North African state, Foreign Affairs Minister Mohlabi...
Varsity shut down again
MASERU — The Limkokwing University of Creative Technology (LUCT) was on Monday shut down indefinitely following fresh disturbances at the campus. The LUCT’s registrar, Moroka...
Electronics firm shuts down, 275 lose jobs
MASERU — A local radio and television manufacturing company, Kiota Electronics (Pty) Ltd, abruptly shut down on Tuesday leaving about 275 workers jobless. Disgruntled workers...
Lesotho’s daunting pressures
ALTHOUGH the IMF in its recent review mission lauded Lesotho’s implementation of the Extended Credit Facility (ECF) as being on track, fiscal consolidation is likely...
Promoting growth and employment in Lesotho
THE most pressing problem facing Lesotho today is the absence of sustained economic growth and job creation, which are essential factors to the reduction of...
Ringing the bell for womanity
“Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold. Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of...