Category : Comment

IF the riotous scenes that we saw at Moshoeshoe I International Airport on Tuesday are anything to go by, then Mothetjoa Metsing’s days as the...

THE decision to release 300 prisoners last week will serve to decongest Lesotho’s notoriously overcrowded jails. However, only time will tell whether unleashing such a...

THIS week the Libyan embassy in Maseru flew two flags, one associated with ousted strongman Muammar Gadaffi, and the other associated with the National Transitional...

Local Government Minister Pontšo Sekatle may well have been within her rights when she allocated residential stands to nine government ministers, judges and senior civil...

REPORTS that officers of the Lesotho Mounted Police Service (LMPS) are not happy with their salaries and working conditions should be treated with utmost urgency...

Two of the eight men on trial for attempting to assassinate Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili and topple the government in 2009 are now without legal...

YOU know a government is becoming paranoid when it starts muzzling the media in times of crisis. The government showed its paranoia yesterday when it...

THE decision to hire Masupha Sole, the former boss of the Lesotho Highlands Development Authority (LHDA) who was convicted for bribery and fraud, is a...

ELSEWHERE in this edition we carry a story that exposes the appalling state of our disaster management services. Last weekend dozens of people were trapped in...

A GOVERNMENT commissioned survey released last week found that most people believe that corruption in Lesotho is more prevalent than it was in 1999 when...

NATIONAL University of Lesotho (NUL) Vice-Chancellor Professor Sharon Siverts’ assessment of what needs to be done at the country’s premier institute of higher learning was...

THIS week’s news that a South African burial society had raised M2.5 billion to bail out MKM should have triggered wild celebrations. It didn’t. Instead,...

Reports by Lesotho Defence Force (LDF) commander Lieutenant General Thuso Motanyane that the army is facing severe budgetary constraints should come as a real cause...

THREATS to embark on fresh protests at the National University of Lesotho (NUL) could deal a fatal blow to attempts to revive the university. The...

THE downing of tools by workers at a sandstone company in Berea last week has helped expose the serious inequalities and exploitative relationships that exist...

LESOTHO’S public works minister Tsele Chakela resigned in a huff earlier this month amid a flurry of rumours and suspicions that he had been pushed....

De Speville and Associates, an international consultancy firm hired by the government to help redefine Lesotho’s anti-corruption strategy, this week started consultations with stakeholders. The...

THERE is no doubt that the liquidators of MKM are faced with a monumental task. For the next few months, if not years to come,...

PRIME Minister Pakalitha Mosisili this week spoke again about his imminent retirement in yet another indication that he could be finally planning to exit the...

Famo artist Lephatšoe Lebajoa, better known as Selomo, met his violent death on Saturday when four armed gunmen pumped eight bullets into his body. With...

WHEN Sharon Siverts was appointed National University of Lesotho (NUL) new vice-chancellor in February we hailed her appointment as a necessary step in reversing years...

ELSEWHERE in this issue we carry a story about ’Marefiloe Khothe who is said to have been “accidentally” shot and seriously injured by the police...

PRIME Minister Pakalitha Mosisili is facing a revolt from within his ruling Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) party. His comrades in the leadership have stopped...

THE MKM, which was a shameless Ponzi scheme, remains like an albatross around the government’s neck almost four years after the company was shut down...

Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili last week lashed out at the judiciary accusing it of bias in its judgments involving the government. Mosisili was particularly miffed...

ELSEWHERE in this issue we carry a harrowing story of about 20 school children who were allegedly sodomised at a school in Maseru. The sexual...

THE decision by the Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) Lesotho to cancel the evaluation of a tender to select a service provider for national identity cards...

THE turmoil within the ruling Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) reached boiling point last week. Seventeen constituencies wrote to the party’s secretary general Mothetjoa Metsing...

In this issue (Page 2 and 3) we carry a story about Ts’eliso Thatjane who claims to have been tortured by the police after he...

IN HIS budget speech in parliament on Monday, Finance Minister Timothy Thahane painted a not-so-rosy picture of the state of our national economy. The budget...