$1m road repair for Mugabe bride
Harare city officials have been ordered to spruce up roads linking Zimbabwe’s State House and President Robert Mugabe’s private home in Borrowdale Brooke in preparation...
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France to boost forces in Central African Republic
France is to send an 400 additional troops to the Central African Republic, raising its total deployment to 2,000. The French military has been working...
Human Flesh on Sale at Hotel – 11 Arrested
NIGERIA – Police in the city of Onitsha in Anambra State who made a grizzly discovery last August when they found two severed heads in...
Soulo speaks out
By Bongiwe Zihlangu MASERU — Molobeli Soulo and Mophato Monyake, the two ministers fired this week in Prime Minister Thomas Thabane’s latest reshuffle, are unhappy...
Prosecution wants Scott’s trial postponed to 2015
By Billy Ntaote MASERU – The prosecution has urged the High Court to postpone the trial of ritual murder suspect, Lehlohonolo Scott, to February 10...
Parliament rejects budget reports
By Billy Ntaote & Sentle Rathebe MASERU — Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on the Social Cluster has thrown out budget reports from two ministries citing irregularities...
Minister’s private secretary arrested over fake certificates
By Keiso Mohloboli MASERU – The Minister of Social Development’s private secretary, Lebohang Mokone, 40, was yesterday arrested on suspicion that he had used fake...
LCD flaunts incumbency in government
By Billy Ntaote MASERU — Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) leader Mothetjoa Metsing has urged Thaba-Phechela residents to vote for his party in Saturday’s parliamentary...
IEC clarifies electoral campaign code
By Sentle Rathebe and Boitumelo Koloi MASERU – The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) Director of Elections, Mphasa Mokhochane, has said that although a party or...
Desperate and desolate
The sad tale of Damaseka — a village in Butha-Buthe which gives a clear picture of what it means to live in a ‘hard-to-reach’ area...
Midwives ‘must take charge of their profession’
By Tsitsi Matope MASERU- The Independent Midwives Association of Lesotho (IMAL) has expressed concern that women continue to die during pregnancy and soon after delivery....
Political Stone Age still a reality
By Mahao Mahao On the first Sunday of February, I was winding down the weekend at a certain joint in Khubetsoana when a certain young...
Declining standards in the legal fraternity?
By Advocate Monaheng S Rasekoai A WEEK ago, his Lordship Acting Chief Justice’s speech in the official opening of the High Court made a humorous...
SA deports 114 Basotho
By Mohalenyane Phakela MASERU – A total of 114 Basotho were deported from South Africa yesterday morning for staying in the neighbouring country without proper...
The more you hide, the more you’re exposed
The Japanese Ambassador to Lesotho residing in Pretoria, Yutaka Yoshizawa, wrote in his article entitled “Japan is not competing with China on Africa” (Lesotho Times...
EU takes it easy on Zimbabwe, not Mugabe
European Union sources say the organisation plans to ease sanctions on Zimbabwe, however it will maintain its restrictions imposed on Robert Mugabe. The European Union...
Accountant unpacks budget expectations
The 2014/2015 budget will be unveiled next week. Lesotho Times’s Business Reporter Letuka Chafotsa spoke to Malehlohonolo Likhapha Mahase to unpack what experts expect from...
Ayatollah Khamenei says US will overthrow Iran, given the chance
Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said the US had a ‘controlling and meddlesome’ attitude towards the Islamic Republic. In a speech to mark the...
Vavi plans to sue Cosatu
Zwelinzima Vavi says he intends on suing the union federation and an auditing firm for defamation after a report on his conduct was made public....
Defence PS threatened with death
By Bongiwe Zihlangu and Keiso Mohloboli MASERU — The Ministry of Defence and National Security’s Principal Secretary (PS) David Sehloho has reportedly been threatened with...
Japan is not competing with China on Africa
By Yutaka Yoshizawa THE article in the Lesotho Times by Mathabana Kotelo, entitled “Chinese envoy lashes out at Japan” (January 16 2014), cited Chinese Ambassador...
Japan and China’s great African game
A NEW scramble for Africa is unfolding. But it’s no longer Western powers vying for land and the continent’s wealth as they had...
Vatican dismisses ‘unfair’ UN child molestation findings
The Vatican says a blunt UN report on sexual abuse of children by clergy was distorted and that the UN has been influenced by pro-gay...
ANC to take ‘firm stance’ on violent protesters
The ANC in Gauteng has threatened to take “strong action” against violent protesters within its ranks and the broader tripartite alliance. The ANC in Gauteng...
Moleleki’s co-accused push for separate trial
By Boitumelo Koloi MASERU — Refela Holdings executives, co-accused in a fraud case involving former Natural Resources Minister, Monyane Moleleki, have asked for a separate...
Tempers flare over Moleleki’s illness
By Boitumelo Koloi and Billy Ntaote MASERU — Tempers flared at the High Court this week as the defence and prosecution teams debated the authenticity...
NUL library upgraded
By Ntsebeng Motsoeli MASERU — The National University of Lesotho (NUL) has purchased an American Millennium Pack integrated library system to replace the outdated Integrated...
Abubaker’s shock plan for Ha Hoohlo
Residents say businessman ‘to build mall and upmarket suburb’ By Boitumelo Koloi and Limpho Sello MASERU — The longstanding Ha Hoohlo land dispute took a shocking...
Fraud case only settled after 11 years
By Billy Ntaote and Sentle Rathebe MASERU – The President of the Thabang Local Court in Mokhotlong, Maneo Mohapi, yesterday won his protracted battle to...
Thabane lays down the law
By Billy Ntaote MASERU —The All Basotho Convention (ABC) leader, Prime MinisterThomas Thabane says for the party to achieve its mission of curbing poverty, its...