Category : Comment

  VOTER registers are often a key source of disputed elections across Africa, with electoral authorities often accused of using defecting rolls to rig elections,...

NEWLY appointed Commissioner of Police, Borotho Matsoso, might just be what the Lesotho Mounted Police Service (LMPS) needed to get back into shape. Or at...

BASOTHO must be relieved that former Lesotho Mounted Police Service (LMPS) boss, Holomo Molibeli, has hit the road. His six years at the LMPS’s helm...

  MINISTER of Trade, Industry and Business Development, Mokhethi Shelile’s reluctance for wholesale implementation of the controversial Business Licensing Regulations, 2020, is not only admirable, it...

  THE sexual harassment complaint by WASCO’s Public Relations Manager, Lineo Moqasa, against Chief Executive Officer, Thelejane Thelejane, could have been handled much better at...

The unfolding disturbing political events in Lesotho snowballing from the no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Sam Matekane should prompt Basotho into some serious soul searching...

ALLEGATIONS that Prime Minister Sam Matekane’s government is misusing the army to fight political battles should not be taken lightly and dismissed as mere rhetoric....

This week two ruling Revolution for Prosperity (RFP) legislators, Mahali Phamotse and Thuso Makhalanyane, approached the courts of law, seeking that their six-year suspension from...

THE country’s much awaited reforms process, which has been moving at a snail’s pace, is now saddled with new hurdles. It could be delayed further...

We cannot afford more delays LESOTHO’s reforms process that has been moving at a snail’s pace could be delayed by yet another blow, if the...

  IT is a no-brainer that Section 6 of the Constitution guarantees every person a right to liberty. Furthermore, in terms of section 12(2)(a) of the...

  LESOTHO this week joins the rest of the world in commemorating International Women’s Day. The day serves as a focal point in the women’s rights...

  THE continued  high incidences of murder and other violent crimes in Lesotho have ensured that the country maintains its dubious moniker as the “murder...

  WE have never for a second ever thought that new Prime Minister Sam Matekane is under any illusions about the difficult task that lies...

FORMER Prime Minister Thomas Thabane’s imminent exit from his beloved All Basotho Convention (ABC) presents his party colleagues with an excellent opportunity to plot a...

IN its last edition for 2021, the Sunday Express reported on former Prime Minister and current All Basotho Convention (ABC) leader Thomas Thabane’s attempts to...

IN a highly usual development, Development Planning Minister Selibe Mochoboroane has made sensational corruption allegations against Prime Minister Moeketsi Majoro. We must state from the...

  Ours is a country where there is rarely any good news to report concerning the government and its related entities. Usually the stories are...

  THE process of recruiting new High Court judges remains mired in opacity and unhelpful secrecy. It continues to raise more questions than answers. Like...

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...

  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...

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...

  SOMEWHERE in the Bible, we read of the fool who said in his heart that there is no God. Here in the streets of...

  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...