Coalition leaders taking nation for granted
Lesotho’s feuding ruling parties look set to miss today’s deadline to remove barriers which have stalled progress in their efforts to find a lasting...
Category : Comment
Nikuv contract must be cancelled
We have often commended Pakalitha Mosisili for his decorum and statesmanship in ensuring a smooth handover of power when he failed to win a majority...
Decisive moment for Lesotho
The Commonwealth Expert Adviser to Lesotho, Dr Rajen Prasad, has submitted his recommendations to the coalition government, which he believes can take Lesotho out of...
Attack a dark day for Press Freedom
Yesterday’s complete destruction of Tšenolo FM by unknown assailants was not only an attack on the fledgling radio station but an assault on press freedom...
Time to deliver after New Zealand trip
The Lesotho multi-stakeholder delegation to New Zealand, led by Deputy Prime Minister Mothetjoa Metsing, has returned home after a week of sharing experiences with that...
Nip Tšooana, Kamoli fight in the bud
The feud between Lesotho Mounted Police Service Commissioner Khothatso Tšooana and Lesotho Defence Force boss, Lieutenant General Kamoli, scaled new heights last week when the...
Metsing probe should be left to run its course
ELSEWHERE in this issue, we carry a report on the investigations being carried out on Deputy Prime Minister Mothetjoa Metsing. It is always difficult...
Army, police tiff now out of control
WHILE we have harped on ad nauseam about the souring of relations between Lesotho’s security agencies, recent shocking events cannot go unmentioned. Elsewhere in this...
Taxi operators expose govt again
The government was exposed once again this week, after taxi-operators barricaded the Maseru Bridge Border Post, with the relevant authorities completely powerless to do anything...
Dual citizenship the way to go for Lesotho
Elsewhere in this edition, we carry a very depressing story about how one of this country’s most prominent advocates Zwelakhe Mda has been denied an...
Unprecedented decision laudable
The High Court yesterday made an unprecedented decision which resulted in a high-powered delegation led by the sitting judge, visiting the home of a suspect...
No to police brutality
Operations at Queen ‘Mamohato Memorial Hospital — the country’s only referral hospital —came to a complete standstill yesterday, as the majority of members of staff...
Army should hand over suspects
The brazen attempts to kill Police Commissioner Khothatso Tsooana and Prime Minister Thomas Thabane’s partner, Liabiloe Ramoholi remain as dastardly as they are inhuman. Indeed...
The Great Betrayal
The three attacks which left three Maseru households in a state of shock early this year may have since become but another crime statistic to...
Belated PS suspension exposes government
Government this week finally suspended the embattled Ministry of Finance Principal Secretary (PS) Mosito Khethisa. Khethisa faces serious fraud and corruption charges before the courts and...
Govt should have intervened in NHTC
The decision to close the National Health Training College (NHTC) this week could not have come at a worse time for both the institution and...
Stop this bickering!
THE bid to push for a no-confidence motion in parliament this week has generated spirited interest and debate on both sides of the political divide....
Time police dealt with e-crime
In this edition we carry a report in which a syndicate, working in cohorts with two suspects with extensive knowledge of information technology, fleeced unsuspecting...
LNDC should do more to create jobs
At face value the closure of Philips Lighting factory in Tikoe, the suspension of operations at Saxenburg in Mohale’s Hoek and the closure of Ternsportswear...
Blitz on private media a setback for democracy
In last week’s editorial, we discussed the disharmony in the security sector, particularly the army. We would not have wanted to belabour the point by...
Security cluster must put its house in order
ONLY someone who lives in Cloud Cuckoo Land could assert that all is well in Lesotho’s security cluster at the moment. More than any other arm...
The DCEO needs better funding
News that the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Offences (DCEO)’s coffers are dry makes sad reading. Out of a M23 million budget call, the anti-corruption...
All is not lost for Lesotho’s economy if peace prevails
It’s easy to cry about the bleak prospects of Lesotho’s economy. For such a worldview, all the ingredients for a template of hopelessness are there....
Threatening journalists will backfire in the end
Reports this week that journalists at Harvest FM received death threats through anonymous phone calls should be condemned by all progressive and peace-loving Basotho. It...
Neighbours need each other
The sudden requirement by authorities in South Africa that Basotho departing Lesotho should get their passports stamped before they can enter that country evokes mixed...
One ‘Ministry of Justice’ suffices
In one of his cabinet reshuffles after assuming the reins of power, Prime Minister Thomas Thabane, in his wisdom, created two ministries basically dealing with...
Govt must help miners
A complex mixture of labour-related, social, economic and family problems has, for generations, dogged Basotho mine workers who go to toil for a living in...
Hero, epitome of humility
NELSON Mandela guided South Africa from the shackles of apartheid to multi-racial democracy, as an icon of peace and reconciliation who came to embody the...
Cabinet must end the discord
Once again another incident has exposed the worrying lack of co-ordination and cohesion in cabinet. The arrest of fugitive Lesotho Defence Force (LDF) member, Thabang...
Beware of conmen
It’s that time of the year when criminals become more vicious. Against this backdrop, the country’s four banks: Standard Lesotho Bank, First National Bank, Nedbank...