Institute secures World Bank grant
MASERU — The Lesotho Institute of Accountants (LIA) says it has secured US$435 000 from the World Bank to help improve accounting standards in the...
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LCS’ failing tactics
MASERU — As football becomes more tactical than technical, it is safe to say the pioneers of strategic discipline in Lesotho football are LCS. Previously,...
2010 highlights
MASERU — 2010 brings with it a bumper year of sporting action. The Lesotho Times takes a look at some of the highlights of a...
‘Chief Justice must go now’
MASERU — The Law Society of Lesotho wants Chief Justice Mahapela Lehohla removed for appointing an acting judge that the society had ordered lawyers to...
Army chief speaks on attacks
MASERU — The commander of the Lesotho Defence Force (LDF) Major General Thuso Motanyane has said the April 22 attacks on the State House and...
Hundreds return home
MASERU — It is 10am and the Maseru Bridge is congested; both human and vehicular traffic choke the country’s major border post. On a Wednesday,...
Christmas shoppers in last-minute rush
MASERU — The city was swarming with last-minute shoppers yesterday ahead of the festive holiday. Shop assistants could be seen battling to clear long, winding...
Blue Ribbon employees in court over theft
MASERU — Two Blue Ribbon employees on Tuesday appeared in the Maseru Magistrate Court facing charges of theft by false pretence. Motheo Mohasisa (44) from...
‘Killing was self defence’
MASERU — The murder trial of a police officer accused of shooting a suspected armed robber 14 years ago, continued in the Lesotho High Court...
Commissioners appeal verdict
MASERU — The 13 sports commissioners fired by government two months ago have taken their case to the Court of Appeal, challenging last month’s High...
LCT gears up for 2010
MASERU — Accommodation providers in five districts have been identified for pre-grading assessment next month, the Lesotho Council for Tourism (LCT) has said. An independent...
The year 2009 in football
MASERU — The year 2009 was one full of drama for domestic football and the Lesotho Times takes a look at some of the most...
1 200 fired over Christmas party
MASERU — A local garment factory that makes top American designer labels — Gap and Levi’s — this week dismissed its entire workforce of over...
LHWP boss still free despite ruling
MASERU — A former government official convicted of corruption is still a free man — a week after he was sentenced to 10 years in...
Bantu shock LCS
MASERU — The unpredictable nature of this Vodacom Premiership season continued at the weekend. Certainly, few could have predicted Bantu would thump LCS 4-0 in...
Lawyers snub ‘old’ judge
MASERU — The Law Society of Lesotho (LSL) wants all lawyers to boycott a former chief justice who has been temporarily re-hired by the state...
US agency speaks out on Land Bill
MASERU — The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) says if the controversial Land Bill is not passed into law it will have to withdraw USUS$20.5 million...
Mafeteng men fight over mall
MAFETENG — The son of a former government minister is embroiled in a bitter dispute with a popular businessman, Ashraf Abubaker, over the ownership of...
Smart coordination to save lives
I have served my country around the world as a career diplomat for 33 years now. I’ve seen firsthand what successful cooperation among governments and...
Nedbank opens another branch
MASERU — Nedbank Lesotho yesterday unveiled its latest branch at the Pioneer Shopping Mall in Maseru — the financial institution’s eighth branch in the country....
No takers for Lesotho
MASERU — With the 2010 Fifa World Cup only 175 days away, Lesotho is yet to secure a national team to camp in the country...
Teams brace for last games of 2009
MASERU — Lesotho’s topflight takes its final bow for 2009 this weekend with two full rounds of fixtures. In the pick of Saturday’s matches, league...
LSRC to elect fresh executive
MASERU — The Lesotho Sports and Recreation Commission will hold elections for a new executive, next month. The polls, set for January 9, come two...
Sex scandal rocks college
MASERU — A senior lecturer at Lerotholi Polytechnic says she was fired from her job last month after she turned down the college rector’s love...
Wife rapes husband
MASERU — A Maseru woman, ‘Malerato Masoabi, was yesterday slapped with a three-year jail sentence for raping her husband. This is the first time that...
Hey there, big spender!
MASERU — When it comes to spending university funds the vice-chancellor is an extremely extravagant fellow. That is how an internal audit summed up the...
Matlama lift Vodacom trophy
ROMA — Matlama are back in the big time and back where they belong ― that is according to club president Ikhetheleng Matabane. On Sunday,...
US envoy meets ABC youth leader
MASERU — United States ambassador to Lesotho Robert Nolan on Monday met All Basotho Convention (ABC) youth league president, Libe Moremoholo, to discuss the opposition’s...
Mosisili takes HIV test
THABA-TSEKA — Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili took an voluntary HIV test on Tuesday as part of an awareness campaign during the World Aids Day. Mosisili...
Overhaul varsity laws
ALMOST everyone would agree that there is an urgent need to review laws governing the running of institutions of higher learning in Lesotho. Institutions of...