Crack down on illegal mining activities
AT least 84 illegal gold miners died a fortnight ago at Harmony Gold Mine in the Free State in South Africa. The illegal miners, who...
Category : Comment
We can still reap benefits from football extravaganza
IT is exactly 10 days before the Fifa Confederations Cup bursts into life in neighbouring South Africa. Eight nations – hosts South Africa, Spain, Brazil,...
Sort out mess at Queen II
INVESTIGATIONS by the Lesotho Times have revealed depressing details about the deteriorating standards at Queen Elizabeth II Hospital, the country’s biggest and only referral health...
End of road for Thabane?
FORMER All Basotho Convention (ABC) women’s league boss, Mookho Mathibeli, last week became the latest high profile opposition official to dump the embattled party. Mathibeli,...
Sort out crisis at NUL
LAST week National University of Lesotho (NUL) Vice-Chancellor Professor Adelani Ogunrinade came under renewed pressure to step down. Ogunrinade, who has been fire-fighting over the...
Journalists must be professional
MASERU – Journalists from Lesotho celebrated World Press Freedom Day on May 5 in Leribe district. It is a day celebrated around the world on...
Public Eye report was a lie
THE editor of the other weekly, Public Eye, has not been gracious enough to print my response to an article that appeared in their newspaper...
I was misquoted in NUL article
I HAVE read an article in your newspaper, Lesotho Times, of May 7 – 13, 2009. I wish to refer to an article titled “NUL...
Disabled still get raw deal
FINANCE Minister Timothy Thahane was reported last February promising to remain focused to achieve sustainable economic growth and protect the vulnerable. The budget speech presented...
Implications of a Zuma presidency
THE long-awaited South African elections have come and gone. The ruling African National Congress (ANC) registered an emphatic victory during the polls held two weeks...
Mosisili attack barbaric
WE wish to strongly condemn last week’s barbaric assassination attempt on Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili. It was a despicable and senseless attempt to destabilise the...
ABC threats reckless
A LOCAL weekly two weeks ago carried a story quoting the leader of the main opposition All Basotho Convention (ABC) party, Thomas Thabane, threatening local...
Feeding scheme flawed
THE lead story we carried two weeks ago exposed serious problems in the government’s school feeding programme. The scheme, started with noble intentions of feeding...
Clean up mess
We would accept it if the failure to comply with government regulations was to due to genuine ignorance of what needed to be done. We...
Defection gives ABC chance for introspection
TUESDAY’S dramatic events in parliament have deeper implications for democracy in Lesotho. As reported in our lead story All Basotho Convention (ABC) legislator, Nkhets’e Monyalotsa,...
Corpse dumped in river
MOKHOTLONG – The body of a three-year-old boy was found dumped in Mokhotlong River last week. The police in Mokhotlong say they are investigating a...
Rapist gets 10 years
MASERU – A 24-year-old Maseru man was this week sentenced to 10 years in jail after he was convicted of rape. Serope Mabusetsa Lekaka was...
Daughter assaults mum
QUTHING – A 63-year-old woman, ‘Matholang Khiba, appeared in court last week to answer charges of violating the Sexual Offences Act of 2003. Khiba, from...
Ex-LRA boss eyes Swaziland post
MASERU – Charles Jenkins, the outgoing commissioner-general of the Lesotho Revenue Authority (LRA), could assume the same title in Swaziland where he attended a job...
I thrived on teamwork, says Jenkins
MASERU – He is a taxman. A bad golfer. A saxophone player. An avid reader. A rock climber. A crossword fanatic. A fisher. He loves...
Time to legalise prostitution
THEY are routinely pilloried as Likuena or crocodiles. They endure daily lives of insults and abuse. They are blamed for every vice in society. The...
STEAMING IT OFF: The enigma of red roses
Jo! Bathong! This past weekend was something else! Something different…ok not really but then… After work Friday, I literally started seeing red! What! For a...