Parliament rejects PAC special report
MASERU — Parliament on Tuesday unanimously rejected a damning Public Accounts Committee (PAC) special report that was tabled a fortnight ago. The report, which revealed...
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Regulate medicinal products in Lesotho
THIS article is in response to a piece written by ‘Malintle Matlakeng and her subsequent invitation for comments regarding an article she wrote titled Ngakas...
Remembering the other Julius
FOR what many people would consider to be plausible reasons, I have recently been reviewing the life and times of one of Africa’s most illustrious...
Should African economists learn more from America than from land-scarce Asia?
AFRICA faces innumerable developmental challenges and has for long dragged behind all other regions for this reason or the other. It has thus become common...
Welcome to Sin City
THE rains have been late to come this year but Scrutator hears that Maqalika Dam is almost overflowing. Not with water but with the saliva...
M5 million lost in farming deal
MASERU — The Ministry of Agriculture paid a whopping M5.5 million for agricultural equipment it never received, according to a damning report by parliament’s Public...
Pension looting spree unearthed
MASERU — Between 2010 and 2011 the government lost M81 million through illegal old age pension claims. This is according to a special report tabled...
The art of stealing
T HERE was a time when government officials in this country used to pinch state funds. Then, they used to steal a few hundreds or...
Officials looted M500 000: Report
MASERU — Police in Butha-Buthe are investigating four officials in the district’s local government offices who are suspected to have looted more than half a...
Man kills girlfriend over poorly cooked food
MASERU — Ts’ehlo Phits’ane’s was outraged by the quality of food that his girlfriend had prepared for him. He alleged that the food was badly...
Fraud in public service alarming, says Malebo
MASERU — Moeketse Malebo, the chairman of the Public Accounts Committee, says he is shocked by the rate of theft and fraud in the civil...
Judges want registrar out
MASERU — High Court judges have ganged up against the registrar of the High Court and Court of Appeal ’Mathato Sekoai and are pushing for...
LCD triumphs in local government election
MASERU — The ruling Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) party romped home to victory in 10 of the 18 local council elections held last weekend....
LCD conference verdict set for next week
MASERU — The High Court will next Tuesday rule whether the ruling Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) should hold a leadership conference or not. Justice...
Beef consumers at risk
MASERU –— Beef consumers countrywide are at a high risk of buying contaminated meat after some cattle were stolen from South Africa last week and...
Varsity set to re-open
MASERU — The National University of Lesotho (NUL) will re-open on December 28 after a two-month break. In a statement NUL’s acting director of communications...
Results improved
MASERU — At least 6 920 students attained first class in the Primary School Leaving Examinations (PSLE) this year, Education Minister ‘Mamphono Khaketla said on...
Sacu members meet in Namibia
MASERU — The Southern African Customs Union (Sacu) council members are meeting in Namibia today to discuss the development of a regional industrial policy covering...
Ngakas do more harm in fight against Aids
I AM a concerned Mosotho woman who is neither a health specialist nor a health practitioner. I therefore invite opinions, comments and constructive criticism on...
The case for a basic income grant in Lesotho
SEVERE poverty and high unemployment in Lesotho threaten social stability and long-term growth prospects, underscoring the compelling need for social security reform. Recent research in...
Is social entrepreneurship the key to women’s challenges?
SOCIAL entrepreneurship is one of those terms which is gaining popularity in various media and it has been stretched to include all manner of charitable...
Turning sovereignty into a dirty word
THE sovereignty of a nation is almost sacrosanct. I say “almost” because there are leaders who have abused this status. In the most recent examples...
‘No pay increase for NUL lecturers’
MASERU — The government says there is no money to pay the 15 percent salary increase that striking National University of Lesotho (NUL) lecturers and...
2 soldiers shot dead
MASERU — Two Lesotho Defence Force (LDF) soldiers were shot dead on Tuesday morning while on duty at Health Minister Mphu Ramatlapeng’s residence in Maseru...
Envoy to SA calls for dual citizenship
MASERU — Lesotho’s envoy to South Africa is allegedly lobbying for dual citizenship for Basotho nationals in South Africa in a move that has angered...
Cowards in our midst
I N the United States they used to lynch black people. White men, especially the conservative ilk, were at the forefront of this barbaric habit....
LCD suspends polls in Qacha’s Nek
QACHA’S NEK — A primary election in which Local Government Minister Ponts’o Sekatle was supposed to face a fierce challenge from a former district administrator...
14-year-old jailed for raping toddlers
MASERU — A 14-year-old Leribe boy will spend the next six years in a juvenile centre after he was found guilty of raping two five-year-old...
Man kills girlfriend, buries her in garden
MASERU — He killed his girlfriend and buried her body in a garden. And for two weeks he claimed he knew nothing about her whereabouts....
Bill to control food quality
MASERU — The days of shops selling rotten and expired foodstuffs could soon be over after cabinet last week approved a bill that seeks to...