Timely donation from Letšeng
Letuka Chafotsa MOKHOTLONG — Letšeng Diamond Mine last Friday ploughed-back to the Mokhotlong community by providing 60 local herdboys with blankets, gumboots and freezersuits. The...
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Ukraine rebels snub Putin, vow to hold independence votes
Pro-Moscow rebels fighting in east Ukraine vowed Thursday to press on with disputed independence referendums, defying a call from President Vladimir Putin to postpone the...
SA: Modelling the future ANC
The African National Congress (ANC) looks towards another five years in power. Whether it knows what to do with this power is another question. The...
To mahali or not to mahali?
There are two sides to the mahali debate. Some say it must be abolished because the tradition has lost everything it is meant to stand...
Mixed report for Lesotho economy
By Ntsebeng Motsoeli MASERU — Lesotho has received a mixed report from global financial agency, Fitch Ratings Inc. In a statement released on May 2,...
‘All it takes is passion and skill’
By Ntsebeng Motsoeli MASERU — Thirty-six-year-old entrepreneur, Ms Maleshoane Moea, is such an articulate and convincing speaker it comes easy to buy into her philosophies....
Lesotho seeks trade with Sri Lanka
COLOMBO — The only country in the world to be entirely surrounded by another country and also called Africa’s Switzerland, intimated for the first time that...
Twelve-year prison term for army officer
By Bongiwe Zihlangu MASERU — A six-member military court on Monday slapped Second Lieutenant Thabang Phaila with a 12-year jail term after finding him guilty...
Setipa, LNDC part ways
By Letuka Chafotsa MASERU — Suspended Lesotho National Development Corporation (LNDC) Chief Executive Officer, Mr Joshua Setipa, has left the institution by “mutual consent”. Mr...
LCD demands meeting with partners
party unhappy with Prime Minister’s ‘unilateral’ decisions By Billy Ntaote MASERU — The Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) is demanding an urgent meeting with its...
Metsing condemns dismissal of DC supporters from civil service
By Boitumelo Koloi MASERU — Deputy Prime Minister Mr Mothetjoa Metsing has condemned the dismissal of “any Mosotho” from the civil service on political grounds....
Court ‘humiliating’ Moleleki
By Keiso Mohloboli and Billy Ntaote MASERU — The Democratic Congress (DC) Youth League has condemned yesterday’s decision by the High Court to visit the...
Council celebrates Silver Jubilee
By Limpho Sello MASERU — Maseru City Council (MCC) Town Clerk, Ms Mantai Phaila, says there is “a lot to celebrate” as the municipality marks...
Roads Dept fights losing battle
. . . as vandals wreak havoc on infrastructure By Tsitsi Matope MASERU — The Lesotho Times last week witnessed a farmer driving his span...
South Africa election results 2014
ANC LEADS NATIONAL VOTE WITH 62.45 PERCENT – Sapa The ANC was leading the fifth national elections with 62.45% of the vote on Friday morning, according...
SA Elections 2014: Party leaders cause a stir at the polls
From Jacob Zuma attracting large crowds in Nkandla to Helen Zille ditching the DA’s colours, here’s what happened when party presidents voted. President Jacob Zuma...
Colombia bites the hands that feed
The bid by aggrieved farmers to starve out the state has been met with tanks and troops ahead of the presidential election on May 25....
Maharaj for minister of propaganda
A restructured Cabinet is on the cards, with a new information ministry to clean up Jacob Zuma’s image and Baleka Mbete as second deputy president....
Eighth Parliament risks being a lame duck
BEFORE the 2012 elections, political analysts in Lesotho predicted that the polls’ outcome would result in a hung parliament. And indeed it turned out to...
Number plate crisis: Where to from here?
MEDIOCRITY seems to be the order of the day in the Traffic Department of the Ministry of Public Works and Transport (MPWT). The current crisis...
Donetsk is not Sarajevo
WITH due apologies to God, Voltaire and the Ukrainians, I must point out that if Ukraine did not exist, it would not be necessary to...
Govt, Liqhobong revise mining deal
By Ntsebeng Motsoeli MASERU — Firestone Diamonds has signed a revised lease with the government regarding operations at Liqhobong Diamond Mine. The United Kingdom-based company...
EU gives Lesotho govt M2 billion
. . . as bloc lauds political environment By Ntsebeng Motsoeli MASERU — The 11th European Development Fund (EDF) will give the Lesotho government M2 billion to...
Strike paralyses Tšepong operations
By Limpho Sello MASERU — Four Tšepong hospital workers are in a critical condition after they were injured during a violent strike which exploded at...
Minister calls for end to Tšepong strike
…as PS reveals forensic audit is underway at Queen ‘Mamohato Memorial Hospital By Tefo Tefo and Limpho Sello MASERU — The Minister of Health Dr...
Top cop sent on forced leave
By Keiso Mohloboli MASERU –– Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP)- Crime, ‘Matšepo Soko was sent on forced leave on Tuesday this week—a day after appearing...
Two burnt to death as fire guts Maseru factories
By ‘Mantoetse Maama MASERU — Two people died while one was seriously injured when two neighbouring factories, KHY Plastics and Dragon Pak, were gutted by...
Death threats for Tšepong director
By Limpho Sello MASERU –– The Queen ‘Mamohato Memorial Hospital Operations Director, Dr Karen Prins, has received death threats from an unidentified individual who accuses...
Police probe Tšepong shooting
By ‘Mantoetse Maama MASERU –– The police have launched an inquiry into the shooting of seven Queen ‘Mamohato Memorial Hospital (Tšepong) employees during a violent...
Met department sends chilling warning
By Tsitsi Matope MASERU — The Lesotho Meteorological Services has projected an “abnormally cold” winter this year, which is also expected to be unusually long...