UK institute launches health courses
MASERU — A United Kingdom educational institute has launched new health and social-care courses in Lesotho. The Association of Business Managers and Administrators (ABMA) has...
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Aids: Is message getting across?
AIDS constitutes an alarming threat in Lesotho, where nearly a quarter of the adult population is estimated to be HIV positive — the third highest...
Choices women make
“If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.” — Steve Jacobs THE doldrums is a phrase...
Lesotho Television is an insult to Basotho
I AM appalled and disgusted by the shoddy quality of Lesotho Television (LTV) programmes. The television station has become a national embarrassment to Basotho. As...
Are we Africans so easy to please?
THE passage below, from Barack Obama’s book, Dreams From My Father, reminded me of a month-long visit to the US by a group of 30 of...
Give me spring all year round
WE are literally in the middle of winter and man is it cold or what! But strangely enough we have had some rather warm, actually...
Doubts over MKM bailout
MASERU — A South African burial society on Monday said it had raised M2.5 billion to bail out the troubled MKM and repay its nearly...
. . . as burial society faces collapse
MASERU — MKM Burial Society might soon fail to bury some of its members because of a crippling financial crisis. There are now fears that...
High Court orders army to free soldier
MASERU — The High Court on Saturday ordered the army to release a soldier who complained that he had been detained and harassed by officers...
Businessman faces theft, fraud charges
MASERU — A prominent businessman, Ashraff Abubaker, and lawyer, Steve Buys, appeared in the High Court this week facing charges of theft, fraud and defeating...
Giving people hope where there is none
Scrutator was having a “Lazy Monday” when whispers reached her that a Free State man with roots in Lesotho was claiming to have cobbled up...
High rentals push council out of LNDC building
MASERU – The Maseru City Council (MCC) has been forced to move out of its Lesotho National Development Corporation (LNDC) head office because of skyrocketing...
Famo artistes charged with murder
MASERU — Famo music artistes Sarele Sello and Boithatelo Leopa appeared before the Mafeteng Magistrate’s Court on Friday to answer charges of murder. The two...
Trade unions want labour boss out
MASERU — Several trade unions are today expected to meet Labour Minister ’Maphoka Motoboli to push for the dismissal of Labour Commissioner ’Mamohale Matsoso. The...
Ex-soldier guilty of killing wife’s lover
MASERU — A former soldier who shot dead his wife’s lover after he found the two in a compromising position at a local lodge was...
Cement firm enhances products
MASERU — Major cement manufacturer, Pretoria Portland Cement (PPC), has announced significant enhancement of their products that offers users 15 percent more value. The new...
Where have all the racists gone?
THIS was the question the Right Honourable Peter Gerald Haines asked when he visited South Africa soon after 1994. The government was then headed by...
Mobile phone gender gap
“Women in rural areas and lower income brackets stand to benefit the most from closing the gender gap.” GSMA report THE mobile phone is so...
Involve the most marginalised for guaranteed growth
LESOTHO has recently embarked on a new initiative to accelerate growth in support of Vision 2020. The recent financial crisis and its ensuing recession exposed...
South Sudan: So many lessons to learn from
OF the 30 or so African heads of state at last week’s inauguration of South Sudan’s birth as a nation only a few could link...
Service providers must pay for their failures
THERE are a few corporations that I believe should be sued by the people for not exactly performing their corporate duties. One of the first...
What’s wrong with bailing out troubled companies?
IN one of my previous articles I blamed Africans for contributing to the slave trade. When the Caucasians landed on the African shores off their...
Does donor aid work?
By Thupa Kubu NEWS that came out in one BBC radio programme at the recent G8 summit was that developed countries were willing to provide...
Money transfer scam
MASERU — CGM Industrial (Pty) Ltd (CGM Industrial), a garment factory that received a M30 million bail-out from the government of Lesotho, is allegedly siphoning...
Retrenchment looms at national abattoir
MASERU — Lesotho National Abattoir could be forced to retrench workers this month as a meat shortage that began in February persists, the Lesotho Times...
MKM saga takes yet another twist
MASERU — The MKM saga has taken yet another twist after a shareholder in one of the companies under the group approached the High Court...
Parly to be ready by October
MASERU — The new M70 million parliament building will be ready for use by October, principal secretary in the Ministry of Public Works and Transport,...
Drunken masters
Scrutator has never been in the business of playing “mother” to people or being a moral prefect for others but today, just for this once,...
Workers fired in pay dispute
MASERU — Workers at garment manufacturer Shinning Century Limited were summarily fired on Monday after they downed tools demanding payment for long-service. Shinning Century Limited...
US pledges M34 million for HIV programme
MASERU — The United States has pledged about US$5 million (M34 million) to strengthen Lesotho’s prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV programme. The US...