Lioli earn fat cheque
MASERU — Lioli Football Club on Tuesday received a whopping M400 000 cheque from their sponsors Alliance Insurance. Lioli signed a sponsorship deal with Alliance...
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Lesotho athletes rule Soweto race
MASERU — Local athletes, Lebenya Nkoka and Mamoroallo Tjoka, are M100 000 richer after they won the Soweto Marathon in the men and women’s categories...
Tabola wins Qwaqwa races
QWAQWA – The Tabola Primary School athletics team received an early Christmas present after it won the 2010 Qwaqwa Cross-Country Development Races last Saturday. The...
Lefa trains coaches
MASERU — The Lesotho Football Association (Lefa) is holding a coaching clinic for 28 local coaches in an attempt to professionalise the domestic game. The...
Bogus schools to close down
MASERU — The government will shut down bogus and unregistered private schools at the end of this month, the Lesotho Times can reveal. The clampdown...
CBL governor sued over deal
MASERU — Central Bank of Lesotho (CBL) governor Moeketsi Senaoana is being sued by his brother-in-law over a car loan deal that went sour, the...
ABC: things falling apart
MASERU — The haggling and bitter infighting within the All Basotho Convention (ABC) party sounds a death knell for the opposition party, analysts have warned....
Minister sues defunct newspaper
MASERU — Local Government Minister Pontso Sekatle is suing the defunct Voice of Free Democrats newspaper for M800 000 for defamation. The partisan newspaper was...
Duped police ‘recruits’ report for duty
MASERU — Four women who were allegedly recruited by a bogus employment agent received the shock of their lives this week when they reported for...
Speaker snubs Thabane
MASERU — The Speaker of the National Assembly Nthloi Motsamai has rejected a request by Thomas Thabane to replace his constituency secretary. A constituency secretary...
Serial rapist faces life term
MASERU — A 34-year-old serial rapist from Mohale’s Hoek could face life in jail for raping a minor seven months ago. Bereng Moshoeshoe was convicted...
Will EU treaty benefit Lesotho?
THE problems Lesotho is experiencing in connection with the Southern African Customs Union (Sacu) are not new. However, the problems appear to have worsened after...
Society accepts ruling on DPP
MASERU — The Law Society of Lesotho (LSL) says it fully respects the decision by the Court of Appeal to dismiss their appeal against the...
Graft takes root in public sector
MASERU — Hundreds of government workers celebrated the annual Public Service Day at Setsoto Stadium last week. Held under the theme “Strengthen leadership management for...
On top of it all, Africa has rape
MILITARY coups, corruption in high places, assassinations, mis-governance — and now rape: Africa has cornered the market in all these “sins”. The latest mass rape...
Notsi’s boys deserve a pat on the back
AT last, some good news! The country’s national Under-20 football team two weeks ago defied the odds when it qualified for the African Youth Championships...
Athletes face punishment
MASERU — Two long-distance runners are facing punishment for “purposely humiliating the country” at the Commonwealth Games in New Dehli last month. Both Sechaba Bohosi...
Matlama fate hangs by a thread
MASERU — Matlama were last night locked in a fight to remain in the Vodacom Soccer Spectacular following the circus that marred their quarterfinal match...
Mokoanyane XI date
MASERU — South Africa will be itching for revenge when they meet Lesotho — their conquerors in a continental qualifier — at a regional Under-20...
Free State Stars in first win
FREE State Stars finally managed to register their first win of the season in South Africa’s Premier Soccer League by beating Mpumalanga Black Aces 2-1...
Law Society under fire
MASERU — The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Leaba Thetsane, has accused the Law Society of Lesotho’s leadership of behaving like ‘student activists’. Thetsane’s scathing...
NUL lecturers protest
ROMA –— Lecturers and researchers at the National University of Lesotho (NUL) want the management to stop a hefty increase of rentals for staff houses....
ABC youths stand by Billy
MASERU — The All Basotho Convention (ABC) party youth league is up in arms against the acting secretary general handpicked by the national executive committee...
Court of Appeal nails Matete
MASERU — A former National Assembly clerk Matlamukele Matete should be jailed for corruption. That is according to a ruling delivered by the Court of...
ANC cadre’s remains exhumed
MASERU — The remains of one of the members the African National Congress (ANC)’s military wing killed in the 1982 massacre in Lesotho were on...
Doctor sues medical council
MASERU — A local doctor is suing the Lesotho Medical, Dental and Pharmacy Council for refusing to renew his practice certificate and closing down his...
Four nabbed over murder
MASERU — Police last week arrested four men in connection with the murder of a local businessman last month. The four, all aged between 20...
Cops arrest bogus employment agent
MASERU — Police last Friday arrested a Seapoint woman who was operating a bogus police and army recruitment agency. Police say the 43-year-old woman was...
Lesotho youths take stand
MASERU — For decades they have operated on the fringes of society. They had been completely marginalised with no real say over their lives. But...
Agriculture in state of paralysis
THE agriculture sector in Lesotho is in a state of paralysis which is quite a shame. The ministry needs a huge shake-up if Lesotho is...