Plot to oust Thabane
By Billy Ntaote MASERU –– Members of parliament (MPs) are reportedly finalising a grand coalition to oust Prime Minister Thomas Thabane through a no-confidence vote,...
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Mahao expresses surprise at court martial
By Tefo Tefo MASERU — The Lesotho Defence Force (LDF)’s Brigadier Maaparankoe Mahao yesterday told his on-going court martial that the responsibility of appointing the...
‘We could lose out on our premiums’
By Billy Ntaote MASERU — Members of the Bakubung Burial Society — one of the clients of Phokeng Funeral Parlour (PTY) Ltd which is fighting...
Gender ministry report applauded
By Billy Ntaote MASERU — The Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on the Social Cluster last week commended the Ministry of Gender’s progress report submitted to the...
Why do the Western media get Africa wrong?
EARLIER this year, I witnessed yet another Twitter storm erupt over Western coverage of an African situation. A Guardian correspondent offered an analysis of the...
Pistorius: Public interest or prime time TV?
Verashni Pillay THE media’s contention that it is covering the Oscar Pistorius trial “for the public good” is starting to look a little threadbare. Pistorius...
More firms coming to Lesotho
By Letuka Chafotsa MASERU — Despite the recent closure of two firms and the suspension of operations by another, the Lesotho National Development Corporation (LNDC),...
Sadc seeks integrated bank payments system
By Letuka Chafotsa MASERU — The banking industry in the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) region plans to develop banking systems jointly to help modernise...
Maternal mortality: Let’s look back to the 1980s
I WAS really touched by the story entitled “Labour of life … and death” (Lesotho Times, February 27). As a medical doctor, I thought it...
Special Report: How China’s official bank card is used to smuggle money
(Reuters) – Growing numbers of Chinese are using the country’s state-backed bankcards to illegally spirit billions of dollars abroad, a Reuters examination has found. This...
Friend testifies Pistorius was passionate about guns
A friend of Oscar Pistorius has testified that he had recklessly fired a shot from a car, and another inside a packed restaurant. A friend...
Motlanthe bids farewell to Parliament
Members of Parliament bid Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe farewell as he announced his retirement from government. South Africa’s Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe is retiring...
South Africa expels Burundi diplomat
The reason for SA expelling diplomat Jean-Claude Sindayigaya is not yet clear, but he has already left the country. Burundi’s foreign minister on Saturday said...
Kenyan pastor bans females from wearing underwear to church
Kenyan pastor, Rev. Njoh reportedly asked his female congregants to attend church services without panties or bras so “God can enter their bodies easily”. According...
Putin rebuffs Obama as Ukraine crisis escalates
(Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin rebuffed a warning from U.S. President Barack Obama over Moscow’s military intervention in Crimea, saying on Friday that Russia could not ignore calls for...
Colonel disappears
. . . LDF launches manhunt By Bongiwe Zihlangu and Letuka Chafotsa MASERU –– Colonel Matela Matobakele — president of the court martial trying...
Mahao trial continues despite Thabane’s order
By Bongiwe Zihlangu and Tefo Tefo MASERU –– A military court dissolved last Wednesday following a directive from Defence Minister and Prime Minister Thomas Thabane,...
Gender ministry angers MPs
By Billy Ntaote MASERU –– Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on the Social Cluster on Monday threatened to have the leadership of the ministry of gender arrested...
Duo convicted of Moliko’s murder
By Tefo Tefo MASERU — The High Court has convicted Molupe Temo, 34, and Seabata Nonyana, 35, of the murder of People’s Choice FM presenter...
Tax authority dismisses ABC Youth League accusations
By Billy Ntaote MASERU — The All Basotho Convention (ABC) Youth League has accused the Lesotho Revenue Authority commissioner-general Thabo Letjama of victimising employees affiliated...
ABC youths declare war on the media over Thabane
By Billy Ntaote MASERU — The All Basotho Convention (ABC) Youth League has declared war on media houses reporting “negatively” about the personal life of...
The consumption expenditure budget
By Peete Molapo WHEN, in his budget speech presentation on February 20 2014, the Honourable Minister of Finance Dr Leketekete Ketso, conceded that...
Women play a central role in peace
International Women’s Day is more than a moment marked on a calendar. It is a day not just to renew our determination to make the...
Bravo Metsing for conceding defeat
IN response to “Unreliable DJ Waters at it again” (Lesotho Times February 27), I always enjoy reading Scrutator’s thought-provoking articles but I think she is...
Sadc gender equality: Engaging men key
By Hanna Jansson, Bafana Khumalo and Tim Shand Johannesburg — The 2013 Global Gender Gap Report reveals that gender gaps across the globe are slowly...
Bailing Philips out not viable: expert
By Letuka Chafotsa MASERU — Companies like Philips Lighting Maseru (PLM) that heavily rely on technology are hard to bail out, an analyst has said....
Job creation initiative launched
By Letuka Chafotsa MASERU — The second phase of the Private Sector Competitiveness and Economic Diversification Project (PSCEDP) was launched at a local hotel last...
U.S. President Obama Warns Russia over Ukraine
U.S. President Barack Obama has condemned Russia saying it is on “the wrong side of history” for mobilizing forces around Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula. Mr. Obama...
Pistorius witnesses insist they heard a woman scream
Day two of Oscar Pistorius’s murder trial ended with the State’s third witness recalling how he heard a woman’s desperate cries for help on the...
Pistorius trial: Image an ‘honest mistake’
PRETORIA – The broadcasting of a photograph of the state’s first witness in the Oscar Pistorius murder trial has been described as an “honest mistake” by the...