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Veteran LDF defender says luck will decide title
MASERU — LDF’s stalwart defender Malefetsane Pheko is one player that can rightfully claim to have seen it all before. In a glittering career spanning...
Barca beat United to lift trophy
ROME — Barcelona stunned holders Manchester United to win their third Champions League crown with a 2-0 victory here last night. Goals from star forwards...
Lesotho’s only professional golfer set for Swaziland
MASERU — Lesotho’s only professional golfer, Motlalentoa Moloi, is making frantic efforts to play at next week’s Lombard Insurance Classic golf tournament in Swaziland. The...
Habana the danger man in Super 14 final
PRETORIA — Resurgent Bulls and Springbok left wing Bryan Habana is being touted as a key danger man by New Zealand critics in the lead-up...
Mashai caught at last
MASERU — Makotoko Lerotholi, the chief suspect in last month’s foiled attempt on Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili’s life, has been arrested, the Lesotho Times can...
End of the road for Mashai
MASERU – The long arm of the law finally caught up with Makotoko Lerotholi in Pretoria last week. He is at Pretoria Central Prison in...
Education Facilities Unit turmoil deepens
MASERU — The turmoil in the Education Facilities Unit (EFU) deepened this week after the government made a court application to compel the unit’s former...
Discontent at LCD special youth league conference
MASERU — Voting patterns at last weekend’s ruling Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) special youth league conference showed that there is still simmering discontent over...
Mosisili demands full probe into assassination bid
MASERU — Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili last week demanded a full investigation into last month’s assassination attempt on his life. “They (would-be assassins) should tell...
PM lashes out at former youth leaders
MASERU – Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili last weekend lashed out at former national executive members of his party’s youth league saying they had succumbed to...
Happy to be home but . . .
. . . still bitter over torture allegedly suffered in custody, ordeal in exile MASERU — “I was in the dark, cold, hungry and sore....
Performance of Prince Harry’s charity raises eyebrows
MASERU — Prince Harry’s one million pound charity has only given out a paltry 84 000 British pounds to Aids orphans, according to British media reports....
Students caught cheating in exams
MASERU – Eight students were on Monday caught red-handed while allegedly writing national exams on behalf of their friends. Among those arrested were five students...
Clay ‘miners’ buried alive
MASERU — ‘Maleshoboro Mopeli is grieving. Her nephew, Borane Raletsatsi, died last Wednesday after being crushed to death while digging for clay to sell. The...
Basotho getting raw deal across the border
AS I SEE IT THE purpose of this article is to assess the concept of African renaissance from a layman’s point of view. I want...
ABC set to lose more supporters
The newly formed ABC gave the ruling Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) a bloody nose at the next polls when it won 17 seats during...
No load shedding for Lesotho
MASERU – The Lesotho Electricity Company (LEC) and the Ministry of Natural Resources said they have secured enough electricity supply to avoid load shedding this...
Blame no one but yourself
Steaming It Off THERE are times — actually, most times — when you land in hot soup and find yourself blaming everyone and everything around...
Malawi snub Lesotho
MASERU — Malawi have turned down Lesotho’s request for a friendly international this month, a development that could be another serious indictment of local football...
Referees up in arms
MASERU — A full season has almost passed since the Imperial Top Eight and Buddie Top 4 tournaments were held. However, eight months on, the...
Lioli close in on league title
Lioli………….(2) 2 Lerotholi…..(0) 0 TEYATEYANENG — Many factors can influence the outcome of a football match: the weather, an early goal or a lucky...
Lioli goalie: humble yet unyielding
TEYATEYANENG — Through the course of a long, winding season every team will experience a blip — a dip in form when nothing seems to...
MOSISILI ATTACK: Two ABC members arrested
MASERU — Two All Basotho Convention (ABC) supporters believed to be close to party leader Tom Thabane were last Friday arrested in connection with last...
Voodoo snake causes furore
MASERU — There was drama at Kou Flats in Ha-Tsósane yesterday after a self-styled faith healer displayed a bizarrely garlanded object which he said was...
Chaos at Education Facilities Unit
MASERU – There is chaos in the Education Facilities Unit (EFU) which falls under the Ministry of Education and Training after workers at the unit...
PC FM war intensifies
MASERU — The fight for the control of People’s Choice (PC) FM has intensified with revelations this week that station boss Motlatsi Majara has asked...
Starving LCE students cry out for grants
MASERU — Students at the Lesotho College of Education (LCE) had to scrounge for food because the National Manpower Development Secretariat (NMDS) has not paid...
Chaltin quits politics
MASERU — Controversial politician Moeketsi Tsatsanyane has dumped the newly formed Senkatana party in a move that he says brings to an end his political...
