26 Chinese deported
MASERU — Twenty-six Chinese nationals were this week detained at the Moshoeshoe I Airport for two days after they landed in Lesotho without proper documentation....
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ID tender hits another snag
MASERU — The multi-million dollar identity document (ID) cards tender is in jeopardy once again. The Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) Lesotho has suspended the adjudication...
Mosisili in mini cabinet shake-up
MASERU — Ramootsi Lehata, who as assistant agriculture minister admitted owing millions of maloti to the government’s block farming scheme, has been promoted to become...
I told you so . . .
Each time Scrutator has criticised the National University of Lesotho (NUL) teachers, alumni, students and the like have ganged-up to pelt her with vitriolic comments....
Ex-female soldier sues LDF for M2 million
MASERU — A former female soldier is suing the commander of the Lesotho Defence Force (LDF) and the Minister of Defence for M2 million after...
Siverts blames indiscipline for high failure rate
ROMA — Professor Sharon Siverts, the National University of Lesotho (NUL) Vice-Chancellor, has blamed staff indiscipline for the “higher than normal failure rate”. Siverts made...
Vice-chancellor says hopes strike won’t go ahead
ROMA — Professor Sharon Siverts says she hopes the Lesotho University Teachers and Researchers Union (Lutaru) will cancel their strike planned for next month and...
NUL owes M34 million to staff
ROMA — National University of Lesotho (NUL) Vice-Chancellor Professor Sharon Siverts says the university owes M34 million worth of leave days to its nearly 2...
Voters’ roll inflated by 100 000
MASERU — Lesotho’s voters’ roll is currently inflated by over 110 000 voters due to failure to clean the register regularly. In a report titled,...
LRA boss quizzed on search
MASERU — Lesotho Revenue Authority (LRA) Commissioner General, Thabo Letjama, said the investigation team had no intention to break in when they raided textile firm,...
‘Graft escalates in government’
MASERU — About 77 percent of respondents in a government commissioned survey say corruption is now more widespread than in 1999 when the Directorate on...
Musician who was facing murder charge shot dead
MASERU — Boithatelo Leopa was granted bail on July 8. Six days later he was dead. Armed gunmen pumped four bullets into Leopa’s body. The...
Flea market to open at Maseru Club
MASERU — A local marketing company says it will open a flea market at the Maseru Club ground next Saturday. Seeng Monyane, a representative of...
UK institute launches health courses
MASERU — A United Kingdom educational institute has launched new health and social-care courses in Lesotho. The Association of Business Managers and Administrators (ABMA) has...
Aids: Is message getting across?
AIDS constitutes an alarming threat in Lesotho, where nearly a quarter of the adult population is estimated to be HIV positive — the third highest...
Choices women make
“If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.” — Steve Jacobs THE doldrums is a phrase...
Lesotho Television is an insult to Basotho
I AM appalled and disgusted by the shoddy quality of Lesotho Television (LTV) programmes. The television station has become a national embarrassment to Basotho. As...
Are we Africans so easy to please?
THE passage below, from Barack Obama’s book, Dreams From My Father, reminded me of a month-long visit to the US by a group of 30 of...
Give me spring all year round
WE are literally in the middle of winter and man is it cold or what! But strangely enough we have had some rather warm, actually...
Doubts over MKM bailout
MASERU — A South African burial society on Monday said it had raised M2.5 billion to bail out the troubled MKM and repay its nearly...
. . . as burial society faces collapse
MASERU — MKM Burial Society might soon fail to bury some of its members because of a crippling financial crisis. There are now fears that...
High Court orders army to free soldier
MASERU — The High Court on Saturday ordered the army to release a soldier who complained that he had been detained and harassed by officers...
Businessman faces theft, fraud charges
MASERU — A prominent businessman, Ashraff Abubaker, and lawyer, Steve Buys, appeared in the High Court this week facing charges of theft, fraud and defeating...
Giving people hope where there is none
Scrutator was having a “Lazy Monday” when whispers reached her that a Free State man with roots in Lesotho was claiming to have cobbled up...
High rentals push council out of LNDC building
MASERU – The Maseru City Council (MCC) has been forced to move out of its Lesotho National Development Corporation (LNDC) head office because of skyrocketing...
Famo artistes charged with murder
MASERU — Famo music artistes Sarele Sello and Boithatelo Leopa appeared before the Mafeteng Magistrate’s Court on Friday to answer charges of murder. The two...
Trade unions want labour boss out
MASERU — Several trade unions are today expected to meet Labour Minister ’Maphoka Motoboli to push for the dismissal of Labour Commissioner ’Mamohale Matsoso. The...
Ex-soldier guilty of killing wife’s lover
MASERU — A former soldier who shot dead his wife’s lover after he found the two in a compromising position at a local lodge was...
Cement firm enhances products
MASERU — Major cement manufacturer, Pretoria Portland Cement (PPC), has announced significant enhancement of their products that offers users 15 percent more value. The new...
Where have all the racists gone?
THIS was the question the Right Honourable Peter Gerald Haines asked when he visited South Africa soon after 1994. The government was then headed by...