Category : Business

  Bereng Mpaki Lesotho has recorded a mixed economic performance in the second quarter of 2017, in a development that saw a contraction in the...

  Mimi Machakaire METROPOLITAN Lesotho has intensified the establishment of branches across the country as part of the insurance giant’s 50th anniversary commemorations. The diversified...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS giant, Econet, launched Caller Ring Back Tune (CRBT), a service that allows Econet customers the opportunity to choose melodies that play back to the...

  Bereng Mpaki A LESOTHO delegation last week traveled to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) World Summit in South Korea where participants from Lesotho are...

JOHANNESBURG — SA has plummeted in a major ranking of global competitiveness, falling 14 places in the World Economic Forum’s (WEF’s) Competitiveness index as the...

Tokelo Rasephei TOURIST arrivals in Lesotho increased by 10.5 percent to 1 196 214 visitors in 2016, up from 1 082 403 in 2015. This...

  Bereng Mpaki LETŠENG Diamonds this week announced the recovery of a 115-carat diamond, adding to the already impressive performance the mine has had during...

 Mamohlakola Letuka Machabeng College and Botho University were crowned the overall winners of the recent High School and Tertiary categories of the Links ICT competitions...

Isaac Kwaku Fokuo It is not hard to view recent developments in Sino-African relations through rose-tinted glasses. Numbers from a recent McKinsey report suggest that Africa’s engagement...

Mamohlakola Letuka MAFETENG — The St Andrew orphanage in Motsekuoa in the Mafeteng District has completed the construction of a learning centre and office building...

Nthatuoa Koeshe TWENTY-FIVE applicants are currently undergoing a two-week entrepreneurial training ahead of the final selection of the winners of this year’s Bacha Entrepreneurship Project....

Mamohlakola Letuka THE National University of Lesotho (NUL) Innovation Hub recently unveiled four new products including sorghum biscuits and soap. The products were unveiled at...

  Bereng Mpaki THE Policy Analysis and Research Institute of Lesotho (PARIL) has called on the coalition government to shelve plans to prospect shale gas...

Mamohlakola Letuka THE Central Bank of Lesotho (CBL) this week launched a rebranded interactive website to facilitate communication between the bank and its strategic stakeholders...

Mamohlakola Letuka THE Ministry of Small Business Development, Cooperatives and Marketing has urged vendors to bank their profits as part of measures to grow their...

Bereng Mpaki LETSHEGO Financial Services Lesotho (LFS) and mobile communications giant, Vodacom Lesotho this week inked a deal that will allow customers to use the...

  While Lesotho project delivers ‘white gold’ to Gauteng, the lives of residents in the area have been diminished Alexander Matthews A Basotho pony is...

  Mamohlakola Letuka THE United Nations Development Programme has launched the second phase of the Common Country Analysis (CCA) aimed at identifying and analysing key...

  Lijeng Ranooe/ Tokelo Rasephei GOVERNMENT has set aside M10 million to facilitate the growth of small businesses which are seen as key to the...

  Nthatuoa Koeshe THE government is mulling the introduction of entrance fees to one of the country’s premier attractions, the Maletsunyane Falls as part of...

  ECONET rewarded two of its employees under the performance beyond expectations theme in an award giving ceremony which was held last Friday. When handing...

Bereng Mpaki LESOTHO products have proved to be a hit at the ongoing at the World Expo Astana 2017 in Kazakhstan, the Ministry of Trade...