Mosisili resorts to using private vehicle
By Letuka Chafotsa MASERU — Former Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili has been without an official vehicle for a month after the car had to be...
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‘E-crime spills beyond SA borders’
By Billy Ntaote MASERU — Law enforcement agencies on Monday attended a workshop exploring strategies and devices used by criminals engaged in electronic...
Tug of war over Letšeng-la-Letsie
By Tsitsi Matope QUTHING — The green mountains momentarily block the sun as it descends to retire for the night just beyond the Letšeng-la-Letsie wetland...
‘Mob justice must never be an option’
By Tsitsi Matope MASERU — The Officer Commanding Maseru District, Senior Superintendent Mofokeng Kolo has warned communities against taking the law into their...
South Africa’s President Zuma may have contravened executive ethics code
South Africa’s Public Protector has released a report revealing improper use of public money on the upgrades to President Jacob Zuma’s private home, saying the...
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Moleleki detained
By Keiso Mohloboli and Billy Ntaote MASERU –– The deputy leader of the Democratic Congress (DC) Monyane Moleleki, who had been arrested yesterday afternoon, was...
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,...
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...