Musos canvass for votes
MASERU — With just over a week left before the Lesotho Haeso Music Awards, some nominees have gone on a campaign spree for votes. Members...
Mangaung says ready for Confederations Cup
BLOEMFONTEIN — The Mangaung Municipality last week held a culture workshop to help business prepare for next month’s FIFA Confederations Cup in South Africa. The...
Malawi snub Lesotho
MASERU — Malawi have turned down Lesotho’s request for a friendly international this month, a development that could be another serious indictment of local football...
Referees up in arms
MASERU — A full season has almost passed since the Imperial Top Eight and Buddie Top 4 tournaments were held. However, eight months on, the...
Lioli close in on league title
Lioli………….(2) 2 Lerotholi…..(0) 0 TEYATEYANENG — Many factors can influence the outcome of a football match: the weather, an early goal or a lucky...
Lioli goalie: humble yet unyielding
TEYATEYANENG — Through the course of a long, winding season every team will experience a blip — a dip in form when nothing seems to...
MOSISILI ATTACK: Two ABC members arrested
MASERU — Two All Basotho Convention (ABC) supporters believed to be close to party leader Tom Thabane were last Friday arrested in connection with last...
Voodoo snake causes furore
MASERU — There was drama at Kou Flats in Ha-Tsósane yesterday after a self-styled faith healer displayed a bizarrely garlanded object which he said was...
Chaos at Education Facilities Unit
MASERU – There is chaos in the Education Facilities Unit (EFU) which falls under the Ministry of Education and Training after workers at the unit...
PC FM war intensifies
MASERU — The fight for the control of People’s Choice (PC) FM has intensified with revelations this week that station boss Motlatsi Majara has asked...
Starving LCE students cry out for grants
MASERU — Students at the Lesotho College of Education (LCE) had to scrounge for food because the National Manpower Development Secretariat (NMDS) has not paid...
Chaltin quits politics
MASERU — Controversial politician Moeketsi Tsatsanyane has dumped the newly formed Senkatana party in a move that he says brings to an end his political...
Rapist gets 10-year jail sentence
QACHA’S NEK – A 29-year-old man from Tebellong in Qacha’s Nek was on Monday slapped with a 10-year jail sentence without an option of a...
Mosisili shocked by MP’s murder
MASERU — Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili last Saturday said the death of National Independent Party (NIP) leader Dominic Motikoe had shocked him more than the...
NIP leadership wrangle rages on
MASERU — The court battle for the leadership of the National Independent Party (NIP) is still on despite the death of party president Dominic Motikoe,...
SCRUTATOR: Heroes high on heroin
THIS week Scrutator was inconsolable after her favourite team, Sekamaneng Young Stars, kissed good-bye to topflight football. Not that she did not expect the axe...
Sort out crisis at NUL
LAST week National University of Lesotho (NUL) Vice-Chancellor Professor Adelani Ogunrinade came under renewed pressure to step down. Ogunrinade, who has been fire-fighting over the...
Journalists must be professional
MASERU – Journalists from Lesotho celebrated World Press Freedom Day on May 5 in Leribe district. It is a day celebrated around the world on...
Public Eye report was a lie
THE editor of the other weekly, Public Eye, has not been gracious enough to print my response to an article that appeared in their newspaper...
I was misquoted in NUL article
I HAVE read an article in your newspaper, Lesotho Times, of May 7 – 13, 2009. I wish to refer to an article titled “NUL...
LHDA tenants face massive rent hike
MASERU — The Lesotho Highlands Development Authority (LHDA) is set to effect a 150 percent rent hike for tenants occupying its residential and commercial properties...
Standard Bank, LRA launch value added service
MASERU — Taxpayers living in areas far from the Lesotho Revenue Authority (LRA) offices but are close to any of the Standard Lesotho Bank branches...
Characteristics of anxiety disorders
Anxiety may be understood as the pathological counterpart of normal fear and is manifest by disturbances of mood, as well as of thinking, behaviour, and...
There must be time to let go
STEAMING IT OFF WHAT is it with ex-lovers who do not want to let go? Ok, I know that those feelings you two shared do...
Fatere dumps SA label
MASERU — Afro-pop musician Sechaba Litabe, popularly known as Fatere, has dumped his South African label over what he says is lack of transparency. Fatere...
‘My music not affected by politics’
MASERU — Veteran famo crooner Mantsá says his dabbling in opposition politics has not adversely affected his music career. Mantsá, whose real name is Lephoi...
LEFA seek new CEO
MASERU — The Lesotho Football Association (LEFA) is looking for a substantive chief executive officer, the Lesotho Times has learnt. An advert for the post...
‘Referees have relegated us’
MASERU — A year after their controversial arrival in the Premier League, Sekamaneng Young Stars are returning to the first division. Young Stars will go...