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THE African Nations Cup explodes into life on Sunday in Angola promising a football festival to a country still recovering from the ravages of war....

This is the second Christmas since the first issue of this paper hit the streets and we could not be more thankful for having reached...

LAST Thursday marked the end of Lesotho’s best known high-profile corruption trial. Two senior government officials accused of taking bribes from a German firm in...

LESOTHO on Tuesday joined the rest of the world in commemorating World Aids Day. Lesotho has the world’s third highest HIV prevalence rate, according to...

YESTERDAY marked an historic day since Lesotho’s independence in 1966 as the country’s first world-class shopping mall opened its doors for business. Hearty congratulations to...

AT least 150 illegal immigrants from Lesotho were deported from South Africa last week in what the authorities said was the biggest group of deportees...

FOR a couple of weeks now we have watched our political leaders insult and tear each other apart. The opposition says it is not happy...

HISTORICALLY factory workers have had it tough since the days of the Industrial Revolution in Europe. Factory work has always been associated with long hours,...

THE president of the Court of Appeal, Justice Michael Ramodibedi, was spot on last Friday when he lashed out at the slow pace of the...

A REPORT released last Friday by international relief agency, ActionAid, painted a grim picture about the state of agriculture in Lesotho. The 91-page report titled,...

THE issue of land has always been an emotive one since Biblical times. Predictably, the Land Bill (2009) which is before parliament has elicited a...

LAST week we reported that there had been calls from some quarters on the government to withdraw its financial support to the National University of...

 IN this edition we carry a harrowing story about the plight of orphans in Lesotho. Much has been written about the predicament of orphans but...

  LAST week Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili hinted at retirement, saying he had little time as head of government and the ruling Lesotho Congress for...

THE Communist Party of Lesotho, a long-forgotten political force in the country, is after all alive and kicking. A former senator and secretary-general of the...

MAKHARI Tsietsi, a 22-year-old student at Lerotholi Polytechnic, was allegedly murdered in the school campus last Tuesday. The tragic circumstances of his death raise serious...

LAST week we carried a disturbing story about six men who are suing Police Commissioner ‘Malejaka Letooane for torture. The six allege in court papers...

SOUTH Africa’s President Jacob Zuma was today expected to head north to help feuding members of Zimbabwe’s coalition government resolve their differences. At the time...

TALKS between the government and opposition on the disputed proportional representation (PR) seats finally roared into life yesterday. The talks are being facilitated by the...

LAST week the government unveiled a new media policy to regulate the broadcasting, print and publishing sectors. The draft media policy represents a major step...

FOR the past three weeks we have watched in horror as the country teetered on the brink of political mayhem. The country was virtually on...

LESOTHO is on the verge of yet another political upheaval.  This time the mêlée is over disputed proportional representation seats. On Monday we could yet...

Below are comments posted on the Lesotho Times website in reaction to a call last week by the main opposition All Basotho Convention (ABC) to...

OPPOSITION parties last week said they will call for an indefinite mass job stay-away starting August 3 to press the government to address the contentious...

SIR Ketumile Masire, the envoy appointed by the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to mediate Lesotho’s dispute over the allocation of parliamentary seats, has abruptly...

LAST week 53 African heads of state and government met in Sirte, Libya, for the 13th summit of the African Union (AU). Among the issues...

THE Lesotho Times will officially mark its first anniversary at a local hotel in Maseru tomorrow night. The belated ceremony, which will also serve as...

WE want to congratulate South Africa for hosting a near flawless Confederations Cup tournament over the past fortnight. Our neighbours have done us proud as...

JACOB Zuma last weekend called for a political solution to the current three-month crisis in Madagascar. The South African president said there should be an...

IN last week’s edition of the Lesotho Times we carried a harrowing story about a woman who gave birth in a toilet at Queen Elizabeth...