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...
Category : Comment
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...
Who should we believe about Scott’s whereabouts?
The saga involving Lehlohonolo Scott now seems to be claiming more casualties than Moholobela Seetsa and Kamohelo Mohata whom he allegedly brutally murdered for ritual...
Mosisili for Ibrahim Prize
Even though it’s almost 18 months after the event, we still feel compelled to commend Pakalitha Mosisili’s steadfast statesmanship in ensuring a smooth hand-over of...
Thahane should have resigned
The principle that everyone is innocent until proven guilty subsists in Timothy Thahane’s case as it does for everyone suspected of committing a crime. The...
Ultimatums not the way
TAXI operators have always been seen as an uncouth lot that makes roads hazardous for other users and cares little about passengers. With so much...
Tough balancing act for Thabane and partners
Coalition governments are by nature compromise marriages delicately meant to secure peace in otherwise polarised political environments. After the bloody 2007 electoral period, a coalition...
Let’s tame the beast
Gender-based violence continues to stubbornly rear its ugly head in our country, daily. Various media reports show this scourge is now increasingly threatening to compete...
IDs for all Basotho: Mission impossible
THERE was some never-seen-before hype when the previous government touted the giant leap to ensure every Mosotho acquires an identity document. And surely earlier this...
No easy fix for NUL
The National University of Lesotho (NUL) has become a sore spot which refuses to heal in the body of the Basotho nation. That the varsity...
Political will can save renal patients
ELSEWHERE in this edition we carry the story of a ’Matlokotsi Makoa whose plight should jolt the government into action. Makoa suffers from chronic renal...
Resolve problems at Machabeng
As explained in our lead story, Machabeng College, which is regarded as the best school in Lesotho, is in crisis. The school has been rocked...