Mosisili in cabinet dilemma
New premier battles to strike right balance over ministry allocation to seven-party government Keiso Mohloboli PRIME Minister Pakalitha Mosisili and his deputy, Mothetjoa Metsing,...
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LNDC hosts investment summit
Rethabile Pitso THE Lesotho National Development Corporation (LNDC), in collaboration with the Global Business Roundtable (GBR), on Sunday held the first annual National Trade...
Vodacom launches landmark initiative
Limpho Sello VODACOM Lesotho’s Women Empowerment Programme (WEP) on Monday launched its maiden mWomen Entrepreneurship Project at the Lesotho National Development Corporation (LNDC) centre...
ABC will return to power soon – Thabane
Letuka Chafotsa FORMER Prime Minister Thomas Thabane has vowed his All Basotho Convention (ABC) will return to power “soon” since the governing seven-party coalition...
KFC and ‘cocaine’ save man from kidnappers
Khaya Magenu and Ntuntu Dweba, The Witness Pietermaritzburg – Kidnappers’ cravings for KFC and a substance believed to be cocaine offered a Kokstad man a...
Into the 9th Parliament and beyond
Makhabane Maluke LESOTHO attained its independence in 1965. The return of democratic rule has been guided by the 1993 constitution which has been amended...
Daggers drawn
As ABC and BNP fight over opposition leader post Billy Ntaote THE Basotho National Party (BNP) wants party leader Thesele ‘Maseribane appointed Leader of...
Mosisili vows to avoid Thabane’s ‘blunders’
Keiso Mohloboli PRIME Minister-elect Pakalitha Mosisili says the past two years he was in the opposition afforded him the chance to learn from the...
Moleleki scoffs at defection claims
Billy Ntaote DEMOCRATIC Congress (DC) deputy leader, Monyane Moleleki, has dismissed allegations that he intends to quit the newly-formed coalition of seven political parties and...
No joy for ritual murder suspect
…as High Court refuses to release ‘Malehlohonolo Scott’s passport, citing she is a flight risk Tefo Tefo THE High Court has refused to release...
Suspended BNP secretary general to know fate
Lekhetho Ntsukunyane The High Court is tomorrow expected to hear a case in which Basotho National Party (BNP) secretary general, Lesojane Leuta, is challenging his...
‘Deadwood’ debate rages on
…as nation anxiously awaits new cabinet Bongiwe Zihlangu It is only a matter of time before Lesotho’s new prime minister, Pakalitha Mosisili, takes oath...
MMB trains liquor traders
Rethabile Pitso MALUTI Mountain Brewery (MMB) has embarked on a countrywide programme to equip small liquor traders with skills to operate profitable businesses that...
Media under siege from misguided politicians
Bongiwe Zihlangu THE 28 February poll has come and gone, leaving Lesotho with a new government whose prime minister is yet to be inaugurated....
Standard Bank buoyed by African growth
JOHANNESBURG – Standard Bank Group Ltd, Africa’s biggest lender by assets, recorded a 12 percent rise in net profit in 2014 as it continued...
No laughing matter: Zuma fights back in Parliament
President Jacob Zuma steeled himself for his first oral question session of the year, and hit back at his critics over Nkandla and dodging Parliament....
How will the PM be elected this time around?
By Sofonea Shale THE enthusiastic public reaction to the swearing-in ceremony of Members of Parliament (MPs) has demonstrated that people are following the process...
SA in top five of world’s most miserable countries
South Africa has come in third on Bloomberg’s misery index, a list of most painful economies in which to work and live, after Venezuela and...
Mob storms India prison, lynches rape suspect
One other person was killed as police and the mob clashed after the suspect was dragged out of prison and killed. A mob of several...
Back to negotiating a coalition govt
By Sofonea Shale THE 2015 National Assembly Elections have come and gone but what remains is the challenge of dealing with the effects. Speculation...
Time Lesotho formed a national unity govt
Peete Molapo “POLITICAL settlements have been a feature of state building in all states. Every state is based on a political settlement that represents the...
Rebels can’t be radicalised
Jean Barker Recent events have got me wondering what gives people the potential to be radical in a bad way – dogmatic, violent and...
New PM must revisit Lesotho-SA relations
ON the occasion of Prime Minister Thomas Thabane’s inauguration as the head of the coalition government in 2012, I wrote an article in the...
Premier should serve only two terms
Utloang Kajeno AS Lesotho has held its snap general election in the aftermath of the failed two-year coalition government consisting of the All the...
Consortium ‘fleeces’ government of M14million
Auditors recommend civil and criminal litigation against the construction firms to recover the money Lekhetho Ntsukunyane An investigation by South Africa’s Nexus Forensic Services...
Attorney general loses King’s lawsuit
Court rules Prime Minister Thomas Thabane did not breach any rules in advising King Letsie III to appoint Justice Kananelo Mosito as Court of...
US salutes Basotho for peaceful poll
Limpho Sello THE United States government has congratulated Basotho on the peaceful conduct of the 28 February general elections. In a statement released on...
Lesotho needs all-inclusive govt – Odinga
Billy Ntaote FORMER Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga has called on Lesotho to form an all-inclusive government consisting of the major parties to expedite...
Makhethe loses contempt case
Tefo Tefo Attorney General (AG) Tšokolo Makhethe on Monday lost a case in which he wanted outgoing Prime Minister Thomas Thabane declared he...
Workshop highlights cultural tourism
Limpho Sello THE department of Culture in the Ministry of Tourism, Environment and Culture recently held a workshop on how communities can earn a living...