Covid-19: Is Lesotho ready for the Third Wave?
By Peete Molapo The Covid-19 pandemic has all the trappings of a black swan event. It has upended everything. Despite some positive interventions in the...
Category : Comment
Judges’ recruitment leaves more questions than answers
THE process of recruiting new High Court judges remains mired in opacity and unhelpful secrecy. It continues to raise more questions than answers. Like...
National Peace and Unity Bill: it’s not about partisan interests
LIKE the rest of the nation, we have been keenly following the exchanges between the All Basotho Convention (ABC) and the Democratic Congress (DC) over...
Improve prison conditions
THE government must urgently fix the country’s prisons and bring them up to the acceptable standards for human habitation. For a long time, our...
Walk to the talk on police brutality
WE are glad that the government has finally decided to investigate the troubling issue of police brutality. This was revealed last week by Deputy Prime...
Let’s take Covid-19 fight seriously
SOMEWHERE in the Bible, we read of the fool who said in his heart that there is no God. Here in the streets of...
Police inaction on crime baffling
MOVEMENT for Economic Change (MEC) legislator Thabo Ramatla couldn’t have put it better when he asked if police ever investigate crimes against ordinary people...
Justice finally done in ‘Maesaiah case
Justice was finally done yesterday when former first lady ‘Maesaiah Thabane was remanded in custody ahead of her trial for the June 2017 murder of...
Let’s all support Majoro and the new coalition
ON two occasions outgoing Prime Minister Thomas Thabane has ridden to power on the back of popular discontent against incumbent governments. On both occasions he...
What a failure of leadership…!!!
OUR people rightly feel cursed after almost 55 years of independence. They have been routinely misgoverned. The country is routinely mismanaged. Our leaders just cannot...
Rogue security officers must face punishment
IT is time the heads of security agencies moved from condemning and apologising for acts of brutality against citizens by their subordinates to taking concrete...
Let us unite to fight this virus
THIS week marked the start of a nationwide lockdown ordered by the government to curb the spread of the deadly Coronavirus pandemic which has infected...
Majoro’s election must rejuvenate the ABC
WE can only applaud the ruling All Basotho Convention (ABC)’s national executive committee (NEC) and the party’s legislators for setting aside their differences and holding...
We cannot afford laxity over the Corona virus
BASOTHO must be worried. Extremely worried by the government’s lackadaisical approach in dealing with the deadly Corona virus which has infected tens of thousands of...
Medical cannabis licensees must deliver
IT cannot be business as usual for the government and everyone in the medical cannabis industry following last week’s announcement that Malawi has joined the...
Shape up or ship out
NOW that the national executive committee (NEC) of the ruling All Basotho Convention (ABC) has nominated its chairperson, Samuel Rapapa, to succeed outgoing Prime Minister...
Stop these appointments Dr Thabane
PRIME Minister Thomas Thabane must be applauded for his decision to step down. Whether his sudden departure, after he had initially vowed to cling to...
Govt should fight graft
It has been said that promises by politicians are as brittle as lovers’ oaths. This is certainly true of the current ruling coalition which appears...
Police must act to stop senseless killings
OURS cannot be a soulless nation where human life has no value and people are brutally massacred at the drop of a penny. We have...
Sitting on the edge of a cliff
When magistrates, who are the custodians of justice in any given country, decide to sue their own government, then things have gone horribly wrong. In...
Saving the goose that lays the golden egg
EXASPERATED investors’ threats to dump the country over safety concerns should not be taken lightly. The government and in particular, the Lesotho Mounted Police Service...
We cannot go on like this
IT is really sad that at a time when Basotho and this country’s well-meaning development partners should have been celebrating the second anniversary and...
The strangers lie in wait for the spoils.
IT is almost two years since the advent of the All Basotho Convention-led four party coalition and it seems the two-year syndrome of governments collapsing...
Budget the best under the circumstances
THE budget presentation came and went this week and while many particularly, civil servants will feel hard done by the failure to award them salary...
The ABC must put its house in order
THE ongoing chaos in the All Basotho Convention (ABC) makes for sad reading especially at this time when the party and the government should be...
SAPMIL must fulfil its objectives
THE Southern African Development Community (SADC)’s decision not to extend the tour of duty of its Standby Force is understandable. However, it should also be...
Time for moral regeneration
MOST of us are on cloud nine as we continue to celebrate the milestone of our country’s 52nd anniversary of independence. However, we feel that...
Time waits for no man
WE only know of one instance where the biblical Joshua successfully petitioned God to make the sun stand still and not set until he had...
ABC must deal with the elephant in the room
HISTORY is littered with so many examples of once iconic political movements or parties that eventually imploded into complete ignominy. Take for instance the example of...
We cannot go on like this
ONE lesson we have learnt from the resolutions of this week’s Southern African Development Community (SADC) Double Troika Summit is that the regional body’s patience...