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FNB-Lesotho launches card localization scheme

Lesotho TimesApril 18, 2024

by Lesotho TimesApril 18, 20249 459

Hopolang Mokhopi FIRST National Bank (FNB)-Lesotho has officially launched its card localisation scheme aimed at enhancing financial inclusion and facilitating payments. The FNB-Lesotho card localisation...

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Moleko speaks on Lesotho’s first ever mining indaba

Lesotho TimesApril 18, 2024

by Lesotho TimesApril 18, 20240303

WITH just a week before Lesotho’s first ever mining indaba (Khotla) gets underway, Natural Resources Minister, Mohlomi Moleko, says the event’s primary purpose is to...

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Mining sector enmeshed in corruption – Moleko

Lesotho TimesApril 18, 2024April 19, 2024

by Lesotho TimesApril 18, 2024April 19, 20240290

—as DCEO probes mining department officials for demanding bribes Mohloai Mpesi/Letsatsi Selikoe Natural Resources Minister, Mohlomi Moleko, says the country’s mining sector is enmeshed in corruption...

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Kabi pinning hopes on new committee to redeem ABC

Lesotho TimesApril 18, 2024April 19, 2024

by Lesotho TimesApril 18, 2024April 19, 20240242

…says party facelift critical for its survival Mohloai Mpesi and Moroke Sekoboto ALL Basotho Convention (ABC) leader, Nkaku Kabi, says he is pinning his hopes...

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Khetheng’s alleged killers “tortured”

Lesotho TimesApril 18, 2024April 19, 2024

by Lesotho TimesApril 18, 2024April 19, 20240294

—lawyers seek to exclude evidence Moorosi Tsiane MEDICAL doctor, Mobashshar Hassan, who examined the three police officers accused of the March 2016 murder of Police...

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‘I did not steal LCA property’ – Matela

Lesotho TimesApril 18, 2024April 20, 2024

by Lesotho TimesApril 18, 2024April 20, 20240295

Moorosi Tsiane FORMER Lesotho Communications Authority (LCA) chief executive officer, Mamarame Matela, has denied “stealing” the Authority’s gadgets, but instead accused her successor, Nizam Goolam,...

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Passport crisis continues

Lesotho TimesApril 18, 2024April 19, 2024

by Lesotho TimesApril 18, 2024April 19, 20240273

…as govt secures only 30 percent of needed passports Mathatisi Sebusi THE Ministry of Local Government, Chieftainship, Home Affairs and Police will only be able to...

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Livestock officers paid despite dodging work

Lesotho TimesApril 18, 2024April 19, 2024

by Lesotho TimesApril 18, 2024April 19, 20240247

Mathatisi Sebusi THE Ministry of Local Government, Chieftainship, Home Affairs and Police has failed to effectively register and mark livestock due to officers bunking work. It...

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RSL digitalizes VAT collection   

Lesotho TimesApril 17, 2024April 18, 2024

by Lesotho TimesApril 17, 2024April 18, 20240313

Staff Reporter REVENUE Services Lesotho has embarked on a journey to develop and implement digital tax compliance solutions which will simplify and accelerate value added...

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Famo gang boss pleads for peace

Lesotho TimesApril 11, 2024April 17, 2024

by Lesotho TimesApril 11, 2024April 17, 20240528

as another Famo gangster, Qoqotho, is brutally murdered Qoqotho had been charged for one of the most heinous murders to rock Lesotho PM Matekane asked...

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Fresh turmoil hits ABC, days before elective indaba

Lesotho TimesApril 11, 2024April 17, 2024

by Lesotho TimesApril 11, 2024April 17, 20240347

…as former GS Mphaka is disqualified for deputy leader’s position …and Mr Mphaka challenges that decision in court Moroke Sekoboto THE former ruling All Basotho...

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Former police boss Mhlakaza refuses to testify in Mahao murder

Lesotho TimesApril 11, 2024April 17, 2024

by Lesotho TimesApril 11, 2024April 17, 20240247

…faces jail for contempt of court …as Molibeli takes the witness box Moorosi Tsiane FORMER Police Commissioner, Kizito Mhlakaza, has allegedly refused to testify against...

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AD bigwigs jump ship to join RFP

Lesotho TimesApril 11, 2024April 17, 2024

by Lesotho TimesApril 11, 2024April 17, 20240310

promise that more supporters set to dump AD for the RFP while founding leader Moleleki will now “vote with the gvt”  Mohloai Mpesi ALLIANCE of...

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Comesa Business Council to launch digital financial inclusion system

Lesotho TimesApril 11, 2024May 11, 2024

by Lesotho TimesApril 11, 2024May 11, 20240224

Own Correspondent The Comesa Business Council’s digital financial inclusion system is set to change the dynamics of intra Africa Trade as it is expected to...

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Famo leader Mosotho – a “saviour” to his people

Lesotho TimesApril 11, 2024April 16, 2024

by Lesotho TimesApril 11, 2024April 16, 20240576

Mohalenyane Phakela TO many, the pseudonym Mosotho rings terror.  But for others, among the communities of Liphakoeng in Leribe, the name evokes smiles. It represents...

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Prominent lawyer fights fraud charges

Lesotho TimesApril 11, 2024April 16, 2024

by Lesotho TimesApril 11, 2024April 16, 20240263

Moorosi Tsiane PROMINENT Lawyer, Rethabile Setlojoane, has fired his last shot towards unshackling himself from the fraud and money laundering charges he has been slapped...

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US Govt applauds Lesotho’s strides on Compact II

Lesotho TimesApril 11, 2024

by Lesotho TimesApril 11, 20240247

The governments of Lesotho and the United States (US) will today launch the Entry Into Force (EIF) arrangement of the MCC Compact II to unlock...

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Mosito urges technology use in Lesotho’s courts

Lesotho TimesApril 11, 2024

by Lesotho TimesApril 11, 20240211

Moorosi Tsiane THE Court of Appeal is sitting physically for the first time since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. Its last physical sitting was...

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Call for food subsidy

Lesotho TimesApril 11, 2024April 17, 2024

by Lesotho TimesApril 11, 2024April 17, 20240242

…but economists warn bankrupt gvt can hardly afford it Mohloai Mpesi A chorus has erupted calling upon the government to implement a food subsidy program...

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Sefalana gives back to customers

Lesotho TimesApril 11, 2024April 11, 2024

by Lesotho TimesApril 11, 2024April 11, 20240355

Moroke Sekoboto LOCAL retail outlet, Winner Star Supermarket, won a brand-new Mahindra Bolero valued at M300 000 during a Sefalana Cash & Carry contest yesterday. ...

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RSL collects M8.87 billion revenue

Lesotho TimesApril 11, 2024

by Lesotho TimesApril 11, 20240375

…misses annual target for 2023/24 fiscal year by 9% …but collects more than the previous year Leemisa Thuseho THE Revenue Services Lesotho (RSL) has collected 8.87 billion in...

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M8.4 million golden handshake for Sopeng

Lesotho TimesApril 4, 2024April 10, 2024

by Lesotho TimesApril 4, 2024April 10, 20240367

…as former NRA boss, Adv Motanyane, replaces him at LHWC Moorosi Tsiane THE government has agreed to pay the former Lesotho Highlands Water Commission (LHWC)...

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Halt electricity tariff hike: civic groups

Lesotho TimesApril 4, 2024April 10, 2024

by Lesotho TimesApril 4, 2024April 10, 20240272

Moroke Sekoboto CIVIC groups have urged the government to halt the near 10 percent increase in electricity tariffs announced recently, saying hard pressed Basotho could...

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Uproar over Inheritance Act

Lesotho TimesApril 4, 2024April 10, 2024

by Lesotho TimesApril 4, 2024April 10, 20240590

…as National Assembly scraps clause 69 of the Act thereby disadvantaging “illegitimate” children Mathatisi Sebusi THE National Assembly’s decision to remove Clause 69 from the new...

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Mochoboroane unpacks his vision for the health sector

Lesotho TimesApril 4, 2024April 10, 2024

by Lesotho TimesApril 4, 2024April 10, 20240331

…emphasizes strategic shift to focus on disease prevention    BEFORE Selibe Mochoboroane took over the Ministry of Health after the October 2002 general elections, Lesotho’s...

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Billions worth MCC Compact II finally unlocked

Lesotho TimesApril 4, 2024April 10, 2024

by Lesotho TimesApril 4, 2024April 10, 20240335

Mathatisi Sebusi/Hopolang Mokhopi THE government finally met the deadline to unlock the implementation of the multi-billion maloti Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Compact II.  The project...

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Chinese doctors a positive blessing: Mochoboroane

Lesotho TimesApril 4, 2024April 10, 2024

by Lesotho TimesApril 4, 2024April 10, 20240269

…as new Chinese medical team arrives …while three more China-funded projects are in the pipeline Mohloai Mpesi THE medical specialists which China has been sending...

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CBL keeps repo rate unchanged

Lesotho TimesApril 4, 2024April 10, 2024

by Lesotho TimesApril 4, 2024April 10, 20240219

Moroke Sekoboto THE Central Bank of Lesotho (CBL) has kept the repo rate unchanged at 7.75 percent, cushioning hard pressed consumers from immediate interest rate...

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Mukuru and SLB engage Basotho migrant workers

Lesotho TimesApril 3, 2024

by Lesotho TimesApril 3, 20240252

Hopolang Mokhopi FINANCIAL services platform, Mukuru, has implored Basotho in the diaspora to use its safe mobile money transfer platform, when sending money back home,...

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Amnesty International URGES Lesotho to investigate torture of detainees at MCCI

Lesotho TimesApril 3, 2024

by Lesotho TimesApril 3, 20240498

THE Amnesty International says it is shocked by the recent findings by the Lesotho Ombudsman, Tlotliso Polaki, on the inhumane treatment of inmates at the...