Lesotho Times

Moroke Sekoboto  LOCAL retail outlet, Winner Star Supermarket, won a brand-new Mahindra Bolero valued at M300 000 during a Sefalana Cash & Carry contest yesterday. ...

…misses annual target for 2023/24 fiscal year by 9%  …but collects more than the previous year  Leemisa Thuseho  THE Revenue Services Lesotho (RSL) has collected 8.87 billion in...

…as former NRA boss, Adv Motanyane, replaces him at LHWC  Moorosi Tsiane  THE government has agreed to pay the former Lesotho Highlands Water Commission (LHWC)...

Moroke Sekoboto  CIVIC groups have urged the government to halt the near 10 percent increase in electricity tariffs announced recently, saying hard pressed Basotho could...

…as National Assembly scraps clause 69 of the Act thereby disadvantaging “illegitimate” children  Mathatisi Sebusi  THE National Assembly’s decision to remove Clause 69 from the new...

…emphasizes strategic shift to focus on disease prevention     BEFORE Selibe Mochoboroane took over the Ministry of Health after the October 2002 general elections, Lesotho’s...

Mathatisi Sebusi/Hopolang Mokhopi  THE government finally met the deadline to unlock the implementation of the multi-billion maloti Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Compact II.  The project...

…as new Chinese medical team arrives  …while three more China-funded projects are in the pipeline  Mohloai Mpesi  THE medical specialists which China has been sending...

Moroke Sekoboto  THE Central Bank of Lesotho (CBL) has kept the repo rate unchanged at 7.75 percent, cushioning hard pressed consumers from immediate interest rate...

Hopolang Mokhopi  FINANCIAL services platform, Mukuru, has implored Basotho in the diaspora to use its safe mobile money transfer platform, when sending money back home,...

THE Amnesty International says it is shocked by the recent findings by the Lesotho Ombudsman, Tlotliso Polaki, on the inhumane treatment of inmates at the...

The Government of Lesotho has endorsed and launched the Emergency, Preparedness, and Response Flagship Initiative Roadmap. This was done with the support from the World...

 -as power tariffs are hiked by nearly 10 percent  Mathatisi Sebusi  ELECTRICITY tariffs have been hiked by nearly 10 percent, adding more woes to already...

Hopolang Mokhopi  THREE Lesotho Mounted Police Service (LMPS) officers, who were arrested in South Africa last week were on a trial for cattle which had been stolen...

…asks police to complete investigations in six months  Mathatisi Sebusi  OMBUDSMAN Tlotliso Polaki wants 114 Lesotho Correctional Service (LCS) officers investigated and prosecuted for the...

Moorosi Tsiane  FORMER Police Commissioner, Holomo Molibeli, acted within his office’s powers when he secured a High Court order to attach the property and monies...

THE government has until end of this month to pass three laws central to unlocking the $322.5 million (about M6.14 billion) aid package from the...

alleged to have given patient wrong medication   resulting in his “malfunctioning” manhood  Moorosi Tsiane  A CASE of negligence by doctors at the state-owned Mabote Filter...

—threatens to withdraw from high profile case unless it’s cancelled  Staff Reporter  FORMER Principal Secretary (PS) Colonel Tanki Mothae (Retired) is furious over a warrant...

Letsatsi Selikoe  LESOTHO is gearing to hold its inaugural mining indaba, a historic event aimed at reshaping the future of the country’s extractive industry.  The Lesotho...

…claims the newspaper is operating “illegally”  Mohalenyane Phakela  FORMER Police Commissioner, Holomo Molibeli, and his “ally”, Thabiso Moroahae of Tholo Energy, want the Lesotho Times newspaper banned...

…to promote financial inclusion and wean Lesotho off reliance on SA’s payments system  Leemisa Thuseho  IN its bid to promote financial inclusion and join the...

Mohloai Mpesi  THE Public Officers Defined Contribution Pension Fund PODCPF) has roped in security agencies to try and help it deal with its various crises. ...

…GS Mokela says COLEPE not recognised under public service laws  Mathatisi Sebusi  GOVERNMENT Secretary, Teboho ‘Mokela, has strongly warned civil servants who subscribe to the...

Hopolang Mokhopi  THE collaborative effort of the Lesotho Blood Transfusion Service (LBTS) and Care Bond Donor Club (CBDC) has resulted in the collection of 7500 pints of blood. ...

Moorosi Tsiane  FORMER Military Intelligence (MI) boss, Brigadier Rapele Mphaki, has claimed that he was tortured by the police, forcing him to implicate the Lesotho...

Mohloai Mpesi OPPOSITION leader, Mathibeli Mokhothu, and Basotho National Party (BNP) leader Machesetsa Mofomobe, say they want to bridge longstanding ideological differences between congress and...