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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...

ELSEWHERE in this issue, we carry a disturbing story about how the noble process of identifying a new company to design and issue electronic passports...

IN HIS address to officially open the High Court session for this year on Tuesday, Chief Justice Mahapela Lehohla to his credit pointed out the...

IT IS said a picture is worth a thousand words. And there she was, mixing cow dung and some soil somewhere in Ha-Teko on the...

THE auditor-general Lucy Liphafa last week released yet another damning report on the state of the country’s finances. The 2007/8 report lists a litany of...

ON February 1 or soon thereafter the National University of Lesotho (NUL) will have a new vice-chancellor. The appointment of the university’s new chief executive...

IN the past, the economy of Lesotho was largely supported by revenue from the Southern African Customs Union (Sacu). It also relied heavily on agriculture...

SUDAN may be on the verge of being reborn as two nations — north and south. The north is mostly Arabic and Muslim, the south,...

THE move to set up an independent human rights watchdog to protect the rights of citizens should be seen as the first concrete step by...

FOR fatally shooting a Mohale’s Hoek man eight years ago, a police officer was this week slapped with a five-year prison term or alternatively a...

THE National University of Lesotho (NUL) and Limkokwing University were shut down again last week. The three-year-old Limkokwing saw its worst student protests with nine...

SEVEN people, including two security guards, were this week shot during student protests at Limkokwing University campus in Maseru. The students were protesting against last...

LECTURERS at the National University of Lesotho (NUL) embarked on yet another strike on Monday. The latest strike action is a clear signal that all...

IN November 2007, the Central Bank of Lesotho (CBL) shut down MKM for operating a banking business without a licence. The central bank said MKM...

AS reported in one of our stories in this issue the government is moving swiftly to shut down all illegal schools operating in Lesotho. The...

TWO parties in the Global Political Agreement in Zimbabwe would love to win the next election — whenever it might be held. Arthur Mutambara’s formation...

A PROPOSAL by the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC)’s law committee to amend Lesotho’s electoral rules could prove a key turning point in halting post-election conflicts...

LESOTHO this year slumped to position 130 out of 183 countries in the “ease of doing business” survey carried out by the World Bank. Last...

THE cracks in the Lesotho opposition ranks widened this week over strategies on how to confront the government regarding the proportional representation (PR) seats issue....

ON Sunday, the managing director of Sun Bakery, formerly known as Astoria Bakery, was kidnapped from his home by unknown gunmen. A few hours later...

LAST month Lesotho joined the rest of the world in celebrating the African woman and her achievements. We look back and rejoice that we had...