Gang terrorises Maputsoe community
MASERU — Communities in Maputsoe say they are living in fear of an armed gang that has been terrorising villagers in recent weeks. A member...
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Woman bites rapist’s finger
MASERU – A Quthing woman escaped being raped last week after biting the finger of a man who attempted to rape her. Police spokesperson Masupha...
Bid to ease doing business in Lesotho
MASERU — The government is currently implementing reforms to make it easier for companies to set up businesses in Lesotho, Trade Ministry principal secretary Teleko...
Do we need national development plans?
AFRICA’S continued underdevelopment is often attributed to various factors ranging from colonisation to lack of resources. In response to these challenges governments in Africa have...
Gender equality on company boards
“Until women are equitably represented in leadership in the private, economic sector, they will be marginalised in every other arena.” Irene Lang, President of Catalyst...
Aids: No longer the hideous disease?
ONE African president is said to have died of it. Another paid a high price for denying its existence. To many analysts, it led to...
Legalising prostitution would be a suicidal mission
The Lesotho Times issue of May 19 had a story about experts for HIV-free generation, Festus Mogae and Miriam Were. The two argued that it...
Shady road tender
MASERU — The government of Lesotho advanced a M15 million loan to a local contractor who had failed to complete the construction of a section...
PS Sekoto found dead
MASERU — The principal secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security, Mohale Sekoto, was found dead in his office yesterday morning. Police confirmed...
New electoral law passed
MASERU — Individual voters can now sue the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) and petition the courts to order it to reallocate parliamentary seats, according to...
Army boss sued for M4.2 million
MASERU — A former senior army officer is suing army commander Lt Gen Thuso Motanyane for M4.2 million for unfair dismissal from the Lesotho Defence...
‘Phohleli was asked to pray before shot dead’
MASERU — Moments before he was shot dead the late managing director of Astoria Bakery, Thabo Phohleli, was asked to close his eyes and pray,...
Mosisili rebuffs LCCI demand on funding
MASERU — The Lesotho Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) lost its right to receive funding from government because it no longer represents all trade...
Businessman loses M100 000 in toilet
MASERU — A Thaba-Tseka businessman will forever rue his decision to answer the call of nature when he was robbed of M100 000 in a...
Lesotho: 45 years of economic bungling
THE government can play a critical role in developing sound policies that are conducive for business and promote a good investment climate. If a government...
‘Leave us alone’ won’t wash today
TWO South Africans were mourned copiously recently. One of them, Albertina Sisulu, was a political activist of the first order. She was the wife of...
Top cops face fraud charges
MASERU — Four senior police officers are facing charges of corruption, fraud, bribery and theft by false pretence. They are also accused of obstructing the...
Residents want tar company out
MASERU — The government says it will stop a local business tycoon from operating his tar processing business in a residential area in Maseru South...
NUL to cut student intake
MASERU — Government will this year drastically cut down on the number of students to be sponsored for studies at the National University of Lesotho...
‘Postpone local government elections’
MASERU — Opposition political parties yesterday said they wanted the local government elections scheduled for September 10 postponed because preparations are behind schedule. Speaking at...
‘Punish incompetent accounting officers’
MASERU — MPs want principal secretaries and chief accounting officers that approved supplementary estimates for the 2006/2007 fiscal year without following proper procedure to appear...
Let the looting begin
T wo events in recent weeks are enough to illustrate that we have sunk to unacceptable levels of immorality as a country. First, there was...
PM calls for new law on chieftainship
MASERU — Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili has called on the Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) women’s league to work hard to change the law that...
Police probe Quthing mining firm
MASERU — The police are investigating a brick moulding company in Quthing after two of its employees died on May 23 when a sand concave...
Anti-graft consultations kick off
MASERU — An international consultancy firm hired by government to help re-define Lesotho’s anti-corruption strategy started consultations with various groupings this week. De Speville and...
Women who love too much
“You will need to learn to live without all the excitement of the heated battles, those time-consuming, energy-draining dramas in which you’ve been co-starring.” That...
Next, the African Awakening?
AFRICANS who had come of age by 1957, when Ghana became independent, will be wondering if there will ever be an “African Awakening” in the...
‘Sekhamane not so clean’
MASERU — A witness in an internal probe into corruption in Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili’s office has alleged that the government secretary Tlohang Sekhamane (pictured)...
Experts say MKM battle has just begun
MASERU — Last week’s High Court judgment to liquidate MKM might have brought relief to thousands of people but for the liquidators the battle has...
MKM seeks stay of execution
MASERU — MKM lawyers say they have applied for a stay of execution of acting High Court judge John ’Musi’s May 18 judgment to liquidate...