. . . as newly-elected party leader calls for unity
MASERU – Newly-elected Basotho National Party (BNP) leader Thesele ’Maseribane has extended an olive branch to losing candidates saying they should all join him to...
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Pastor in court for violence
MASERU — The Maseru Magistrate’s Court yesterday heard how an octogenarian clergyman allegedly asked for the murder of a church member in a bid to...
Equal pay for ministers, MPs: LPC
MASERU — The Lesotho People’s Congress (LPC) wants government ministers and MPs to be paid equal pay. LPC president Kelebone Maope made the remarks while...
Local lawyer faces eviction
MASERU — A top lawyer is facing eviction from his offices in Maseru after he allegedly refused to pay rent to a local company. The...
Street vendor jailed for selling dagga
MASERU — A Ha Tsolo vendor who claims he survives on selling marijuana because he cannot do normal work due to his disability has been...
Famo gangs in fresh shoot-out
MASERU – Three members of warring famo music gangs appeared in court last Tuesday to answer charges of attempted murder and illegal possession of firearms....
Lesotho recalls staff from Libya
MASERU – The government has recalled all Lesotho Embassy staff and their families from war-torn Libya as the situation in that country deteriorates. Foreign Affairs...
Senseless murders irk cops: Masupha
MASERU – Police have described as scary the rate at which seemingly petty squabbles are turning fatal. Just in the past week, police say they...
Duo in court for theft
MASERU – Two men from Naleli, Thapelo Kobeeane, 18, and Monaheng Liphafa, 23, appeared before the Maseru Magistrate’s Court on Monday on charges of house-breaking...
Avis donates vehicle to Makoanyane XI
MASERU – Makoanyane XI on Tuesday received a shot in the arm from Avis Fleet Services ahead of the Caf Under-20 Youth Championships in South...
Marriage and success: can women have both?
“Nothing but the achievement of economic independence by women, which is already seen clearly ahead of us, would be needed to make marriage disappear altogether,...
Was friendship based on money?
By S’khulumi Ntsoaole I HAVE always written articles about education but last week I felt challenged within the political arena when I was watching Lesotho...
Keep an eye on government bureaucrats
By Adv M S Rasekoai Finance Minister Timothy Thahane’s budget speech before parliament a few weeks back can at face value be best characterised as...
Youth and the new revolution
AFTER World War II, Africans woke up to the realisation that their own freedom had not been a factor in their participation in that war...
Mosisili’s son murder saga
MASERU – A former army officer is suing a local television cameraman for M2 million for implicating him in the murder of the prime minister’s...
Law Society sues Chief Justice
MASERU – The Law Society of Lesotho has filed a lawsuit at the High Court asking the court to declare as unlawful rules that allow...
. . . Judge Peete asked to recuse himself
MASERU – The Law Society of Lesotho has asked a senior High Court judge to recuse himself from a case in which it is challenging...
20 children sodomised at school
MASERU — At least 20 children were sodomised at a school in Ha-Abia in a case that has sparked outrage within the community. But in...
No more peaceful sleep for Siverts
For years now Scrutator has shouted her voice hoarse telling those who care to listen that our National University of Lesotho (NUL) is nothing but...
Dairy boss challenges dismissal
MASERU — Selematsela Montsi is challenging his dismissal from the Lesotho National Dairy Board (LNDB), arguing the agriculture minister has no legal authority to terminate...
‘Senoaoana left country in economic shock’
MASERU — The death of Central Bank of Lesotho governor Moeketsi Senaona has left the country “in an economic shock”, Deputy Prime Minister Lesao Lehohla...
Counter Force fails to attend hearing
MASERU — Radio personality DJ Counter Force yesterday failed to show up in court for the second time in less than a week, forcing the...
Lone woman in the BNP running
MASERU – Basotho National Party (BNP) veteran ’Mabatloung Lillane is among candidates who are vying for the presidency of the former ruling party. Lillane faces...
Two killed in grazing dispute
MASERU – A defiant villager shot dead two men who tried to stop him from grazing his cattle in a prohibited area in Ha-Ramabanta last...
Labour cautions on failure to broaden exports
MASERU – The government’s failure to diversify its export base spells disaster for the country, labour and opposition figures have warned. They said the government...
BNP has chance to shed tainted image, analysts say
MASERU – The Basotho National Party (BNP) has a rare chance to right the wrongs of the past by electing a unifier at the party’s...
It’s not what you’re eating — it’s what is eating you
“No matter how developed you are in any other area of your life, no matter what you say you believe, no matter how sophisticated or...
Quality principle: involving people
UNLIKE other resources, human resources cannot be controlled in full. People have their own perception of issues and will always tend to incorporate their views...
East, West: Africa still a pawn?
THE final fate of Muammar Gadaffi raises personal memories for me. In 1983, as editor of The Sunday News in Bulawayo, I was one of...
Media must stop demeaning women
APART from my mother, the biggest influence in my life came from a woman – my high school teacher in Harare in the late 1990s,...