A shameless crook
Of all sins in this world nothing gets Scrutator’s blood boiling like fraud and hypocrisy. It’s worse when you add arrogance into the mix. Businessman...
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Tycoon gets 12 years for dodging tax
MASERU — Prominent businessman Osman Moosa was last Thursday convicted on 51 counts of fraud and tax evasion. Moosa, who is also the chairman of...
The worst is over, says Moosa
MASERU — Business tycoon Osman Moosa, who was convicted of dodging tax last week, says although the future of his business empire is under threat...
‘Law Society misdirected’
MASERU — The Law Society of Lesotho is misdirected in submitting that the Chief Justice Mahapela Lehohla acted against the constitution by delegating some of...
LCD to honour women
MASERU — The Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) women’s wing will on Saturday give awards to outstanding Basotho women in various fields. The league’s secretary-general,...
ABC youth league defies party
MASERU — The All Basotho Convention (ABC) youth league will go ahead with its conference tomorrow, defying a call by the party to postpone the...
Entrepreneurship is key to unlock Lesotho’s growth
The Harvard Journal of Economics broadly defines entrepreneurship as “the process of creating value by bringing together a unique package of resources to exploit an...
The rise of Womenomics
“Women hold up half the sky.” — Chinese proverb Womenomics, coined by The Economist magazine when it stated, “Forget China, India and the Internet, economic...
Heroes do die young — why?
I missed meeting Tom Mboya by two years. By the time I paid my first visit to Nairobi for a journalism workshop in 1971, he...
Secret behind $80-million painting
There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission. We will control the horizontal, we...
Radio stations silenced
MASERU — The government yesterday shutdown four private radio stations for seven hours after accusing them of spreading lies and inciting people to join the...
Principal Chief defies High Court order
MASERU — Chief Magistrate has ruled that Principal Chief of Thaba-Bosiu, Khoabane Theko should be evicted from a house he has been using since he...
Police foil massive protest march
MASERU — A three-day strike by textile workers failed to end with a planned massive protest march yesterday after the police cancelled its authorising permit....
Mosisili’s guards under probe
MASERU – A group of soldiers suspected to be Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili’s guards are under investigation for allegedly attacking an elderly Chieftainess in Mohale’s...
Swazi commission backs Justice Ramodibedi
MASERU — The Swaziland Judicial Service Commission (JSC) has refused to entertain calls by Swazi lawyers to discipline Chief Justice Michael Ramodibedi for allegedly sexually...
Prison runs out of food
MASERU — Inmates at the Maseru Central Prison are living on smaller-than-normal rations because the prison has run out of food, the Lesotho Times can...
Protesters to seek another strike permit
MASERU — The High Court yesterday removed from the roll the application by textile union leaders and other organisations seeking to overturn the police’s decision...
Opposition youth leaders lash out at LCD
MASERU — The Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) youth league yesterday came under fire from the opposition for condemning this week’s strike by textile workers....
New hospital to open soon
MASERU — Lesotho’s new M1.2 billion referral hospital will open its doors on October 1, the principal secretary in the Ministry of Health and Social...
M11m warehouse commissioned
MOKHOTLONG — An M11 million storage warehouse was on Thursday commissioned in Mokhotlong to improve the delivery of food in the district. The opening of...
A nation of lambs
I was completely thunder-struck as I was walking down my neighbourhood alley when my attention was suddenly diverted to a young girl who was whole-heartedly...
Keys to the corner office
Do nice girls get the corner office? Not according to Dr Frankel whose hard hitting best-seller Nice Girls Don’t Get the Corner Office points out...
How social media can help businesses
SOCIAL media is a new method of sharing information instantly on the internet. Social media websites create a forum through which people and organisations have...
Ex-convict lands top job
MASERU — Masupha Sole, the former Lesotho Highlands Development Authority (LHDA) boss who was recently freed from jail after serving nine years for bribery and...
Leribe couple in court for murder
MASERU — A couple from Pitseng in Leribe appeared in the High Court on Tuesday last week charged with the murder of a man in...
Opposition slams Sole’s appointment
MASERU — Opposition leaders have condemned the decision to engage Masupha Sole, the convicted former boss of the Lesotho Highlands Development Authority (LHDA). Sole was...
A national disgrace
I n her few years on this earth Scrutator has seen and heard things that have shocked her. Some things have made her cry while...
The return of Sole
MASERU — There was a time when Masupha Sole was a star. He had entered the civil service in 1972 as a little known engineer....
Man nabbed for musician’s killing
MASERU — Police this week arrested a 30-year-old man from Mafeteng suspected of killing famo musician Boithatelo Leopa last month. Police spokesperson Masupha Masupha said...
National Abattoir under probe
MASERU – The National Abattoir is under investigation for allegedly selling meat condemned by inspectors and slaughtering animals that had not been inspected, the Lesotho...