Category : Comment

LESOTHO’s election as incoming chair of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Organ on Politics, Defence and Security Cooperation is a remarkable diplomatic achievement for...

THERE was a time in Lesotho when civil society was not merely a collection of organisations occupying offices, holding workshops and issuing carefully worded statements....

  THE High Court deserves commendation for taking a firm and considered approach in refusing bail to Foliki Makhutle, the man accused of murdering Lesotho...

  THE attempt by accused persons in the M5 billion Khubetsoana drug case to have the charges against them quashed before the matter has even...

THE National University of Lesotho (NUL) should be the country’s foremost centre of intellectual excellence, innovation and independent thought. Instead, it has once again found...

  THE Directorate on Corruption and Economic Offences (DCEO) occupies one of the most important positions in Lesotho’s governance architecture. It is the institution entrusted...

  THE National University of Lesotho’s (NUL) public expression of dissatisfaction with the manner in which the Court of Appeal has handled its legal disputes...

  THE latest push by taxi operators to raise fares from M13 to M23 for short distances is not only ridiculous — it is profoundly disconnected from...

  THERE is an old African proverb that warns, “when elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers.” It is a timeless caution against the destructive consequences...

  …despite the unacceptable time lapse THE recent ruling compelling retired Justice Tšeliso Monapathi to return and complete 128 long-outstanding judgments has stirred a mixture...

  THE unfolding revelations from Semonkong, where some members of the Lesotho Mounted Police Service (LMPS) are suspected of supressing or derailing investigations into ritual murders, signal not...

  THE government must account for the missing M3.5 billion illustrated in the Auditor-General’s Report on the Consolidated Financial Statements of the Government of Lesotho for...

  THE growing outcry from parents of drug addicts and survivors of substance abuse should serve as a wake-up call to the government.  Their frustration is...

  LESOTHO’s struggle with crime has long been a matter of public concern. For years, Basotho have listened to explanations about why the country’s police...

  THE arrest of a Leribe man accused of murdering a woman for ritual purposes should shake the conscience of the nation far beyond the horror of...

  THE theft of state firearms by national security agents is basically an act of profound betrayal of the Constitution by those entrusted to protect it.  The...

  THE Law Society of Lesotho’s decision to bar non-governmental organisations from representing indigent citizens in court is not only self-serving and ill-considered; it is...

  THIS week’s appointment of Mpopo Tṧoele as Principal Secretary in the Ministry of Local Government, Chieftainship, Home Affairs and Police comes at a moment of deep institutional...

THE ongoing passport issuance crisis is more than an administrative backlog, it is a mirror reflecting deeper governance failures that continue to burden ordinary Basotho, particularly...

  High Court Judge Maliepollo Makhetha deserves commendation for the clarity, firmness and moral courage reflected in her sentencing of Mohau Matele to 38 years’ imprisonment for the brutal murder of Mahali Lekheloha.  This was...

  LESOTHO continues to grapple with the ugly scourge of mob justice — an instinctive, emotional, and often irrational resort to violence that has left...

  THE ongoing saga of the Tšosane dumpsite is a stark reminder of what happens when government bureaucracy stifles the health and well-being of ordinary...

  THE illegal arrest and detention of Lesotho Times and Sunday Express editor, Mohalenyane Phakela, has regrettably taken the country two giant steps back into...

  Roads are meant to connect, uplift, and open communities to opportunity. They are the very veins through which a nation’s economy flows, linking villages...

  THE demand by Members of Parliament (MPs) to receive three percent of the national budget, an amount estimated to exceed M1 billion, for the...

THE leadership of the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) is once again under the microscope, as the current Commissioners lobby for a second term while opposition...

  THE disturbing testimony by army commander, Lieutenant General Mojalefa Letsoela, before the High Court last week should serve as a clarion call to end...

  As a newspaper, we hold no brief for the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Hlalefang Mary Motinyane. In fact, we have often critiqued some...

  IN an unprecedented development that has left scores of litigants grappling with a profound sense of betrayal, Lesotho’s judiciary has announced a sweeping directive...

  THE latest audit by Auditor-General, ‘Mathabo Makenete, into the Royal Palace project is yet another embarrassing illustration of the misgovernance that continues to afflict...