LEFA throws weight behind LCS
MASERU –– LCS have received the blessing of Lesotho’s football governing body, LEFA, to participate in next year’s CAF Champions League. The decision was taken...
Likuena face Mozambique
MASERU –– Lesotho will play Mozambique in an away friendly match on July 29. The game will be Likuena’s fourth this year. The national team...
Out-of-shape referees get yellow card
MASERU — Lesotho’s match officials have been ordered to shape up or ship out. Starting next season the country’s referees will be graded according to...
Mosothoane: end of an era
MASERU — Despite being born in Botswana, it was always written in Leribe’s blue stars that Kabelo Mosothoane would one day don Linare’s famous green...
Surprise twist
State says bandits shot and killed their colleagues MASERU – Suspects in the April 22 attack on the State House and an attempt on Prime...
Mob kills man accused of raping dog
MASERU — A 22-year-old man from Roma was beaten to death by angry villagers who accused him of raping a dog and assaulting two people...
Bid to extradite Mashai bungled
MASERU — The government this week failed to launch an application in a South African court to extradite Makotoko Lerotholi to face charges of armed...
New Sunday paper coming
MASERU — Africa Media Holdings (AMH), publishers of the Lesotho Times, have announced the launch of a new weekly paper to be published every Sunday. The Sunday...
Masire jets in
MASERU – Former president of Botswana Sir Ketumile Masire arrived in Lesotho yesterday to resume talks between the government and opposition parties over the 2007...
Police officer sues boss, AG for M3.6m
MASERU — A police officer is suing the commissioner of police and the attorney general for M3.6 million as compensation for the alleged assault that...
Brothers jailed for raping niece
MOKHOTLONG — Two brothers were last Friday jailed for 10 years each without an option of a fine for raping their 12-year-old niece. The minor...
Minister defends new financial programme
MASERU — The Minister of Finance, Timothy Thahane, has blamed the teething problems of the government’s new financial management system on the people whom he...
Thaba-Tseka businessmen cry foul over contracts allocation
MASERU — The Thaba-Tseka business community is up in arms against the district administrator over allocation of contracts to traders from other districts. The business...
Mosisili using army to bully people, says ABC leader
ROTHE – All Basotho Convention (ABC) leader Thomas Thabane has accused the government of using the military to “intimidate people”. Speaking at a rally in...
Promoting impunity
LAST week 53 African heads of state and government met in Sirte, Libya, for the 13th summit of the African Union (AU). Among the issues...
New financial system should not be allowed to collapse
AS I SEE IT POOR service delivery has always been an issue that has haunted the government of Lesotho for years. Suppliers have complained...
Snake causes pandemonium
Scrutator FOR some time Scrutator has been looking for that fly-by-night prophet, Thomas Ramaloko, who claimed to have found a bizarrely garlanded snake at...
Big battle to let go
Steaming It Off A FRIEND of mine recently read to me one of her latest beautiful pieces that explored the complex phenomenon of “letting...
Heart failure
Doctor’s Corner FOR the past three weeks we have been looking at breast issues. In the last installation we particularly explored breast cancer as...
DJ Kennysto laid to rest
LERIBE — DJ Kennysto was last Saturday laid to rest with dozens of friends, relatives and fans thronging his Ha-Moramang village in Kolonyama to pay...
She was crowned . . . and dad phoned
MASERU — For many girls around the world, being a beauty queen comes along with big modelling deals from advertising chocolates to cosmetics to clothes...
‘I must hang up now’
MASERU — Former Lesotho international Kabelo Mosothoane is considering hanging his boots. He is 35. The veteran Linare striker, one of Lesotho’s first exports to...
Mohapi’s Under-20s in camp
MASERU — The national Under-20 side will begin a two-week camp next Monday. It will be Motheo Mohapi’s first opportunity in charge after the LDF...
Medal boob mind-boggling
MASERU — When Lioli won the Premier League at the end of May — their first championship in 24 years — they would never have...
Lesotho to miss Africa taekwondo tourney
MASERU — Despite football getting most attention, taekwondo has long been Lesotho’s most successful sport. Unfortunately the sport has gone through a bit of a...
Mashai set free
MASERU — Makotoko Lerotholi, who has been in prison in South Africa for the past two months in connection with the April attacks on State...
SA mines boss sues government for M3bn
MASERU — The Lesotho government is being sued for a staggering M3 billion by a South African businessman for revoking leases of his five diamond...
Mosisili thanks LDF for saving his life
MASERU — Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili last weekend publicly thanked members of the Lesotho Defence Force (LDF) for saving his life during attacks at his...
Judgment expected today in M2.8 million fraud case
MASERU — High Court judge Tséliso Monaphathi is today expected to pass final judgment in a case in which a former accountant with the Lesotho...
Government saddened by death of Basotho men in mine disaster
MASERU — The director of Poverty Reduction Programme (Prep) Topollo Lephatsóe this week said the government is deeply touched by the death of over 50...