Face-to-face with poverty
E ITHER the Prime Minister and Democratic Congress (DC) leader Pakalitha Mosisili is a good actor, out of touch with reality or just an honest...
Metsing lure vendors
MASERU — Newly elected Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) leader Mothetjoa Metsing received a rousing welcome when he visited vendors and taxi operators in Maseru...
Toll gates for country’s major roads
MASERU — A South African consultancy firm has recommended the setting up of six more toll gates on the country’s busiest roads in a move...
LCS on course to retain title
MASERU — Lesotho Correctional Service Football Club (LCS) are on course to retain their Vodacom Premier League title after they picked up maximum points during...
Letete to serve on Cosafa committee
MASERU — Lesotho Football Association (Lefa) first vice-president, Tlholo Letete, was on Monday appointed to serve on the Council of Southern African Football Associations (Cosafa)...
Athletes perform dismally at Two Oceans marathon
MASERU — Lesotho’s athletes performed dismally at this year’s Two Oceans Ultra marathon in Cape Town, with only two locals managing to finish in the...
A Division promotion showdown
MASERU — The race for promotion into the elite Vodacom Premier League goes a gear up this weekend with two former premier league giants Rovers...
Entrepreneur: finding the right mentor
OVER the last few months I have become an ardent fan of the National Football League (NFL), better known as American football. In the sport...
Fighting poverty
PRIME Minister Pakalitha Mosisili must go beyond the rhetoric of electioneering and demonstrate that he is committed to the fight against rampant poverty. If his...
Myth of the entrepreneur
“If you want to work in a business, get a job in someone else’s business! But don’t go to work in your own” —...
Death of a president
IT is quite likely that many Malawians will be relieved that their acting president is someone whose name they would not find intimidating or even...
ABC to host beauty pageant
MASERU — It is a very unorthodox election campaign tactic. But with the May 26 make-or-break election inching closer it is not a surprise that...
Nomasondo to take part in Miss World pageant
MASERU — Beauty queen Nomasondo Mphakisoane is now almost certain to leave Lesotho for China in August to take part in the Miss World beauty...
Mosisili heckled
MASERU — Prime Minister and Democratic Congress (DC) leader Pakalitha Mosisili was yesterday heckled by angry textile workers at a campaign rally in Maputsoe. The...
Police boss threatens cops
MASERU — Acting Police Commissioner Kizito Mhlakaza says he will deal with any police officer who will join a march to petition Prime Minister Pakalitha...
Begging without class
I T was such a sad sight to watch Deputy Prime Minister Lesao Lehohla grovelling at the Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) conference over the...
MGC adds a fourth plane to fleet
MASERU — Local business tycoon, Sam Matekane has added a CV 200 jet to his growing number of planes. The aircraft, which carries 50 passengers,...
Litjobo forgives his attackers
MASERU — Aspiring MP Refiloe Litjobo says he has forgiven the three men who attacked at a local club last month. Litjobo, a Democratic Congress...
EU donates M560m to the disadvantaged
By Tebello Metsing MASERU — The European Union on Tuesday gave M560 million to support programmes for disadvantaged children. Last year the EU disbursed...
Youths take Mosisili head on
MASERU — Opposition youths say they are determined to take Prime Minister Mosisili head on during their election campaigns even if it means deliberately breaking...
Why Lehohla chickened out
MASERU — Deputy Prime Minister, Lesao Lehohla, says he withdrew from the Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD)’s leadership race on Saturday because he feared defeat....
Metsing elected new LCD leader
MASERU — Former Communications Minister Mothetjoa Metsing is now the leader of the Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) after his landslide victory at the party’s...
NMDS debt collector to start work soon
MASERU — Time is running out for thousands of people who have not repaid their loans to the National Manpower Development Secretariat (NMDS). The NMDS...
Rogue auditors accused of cooking books to evade tax
MASERU — The Lesotho Revenue Authority (LRA) says it is worried about dubious auditors who cook taxpayers’ books to help them evade tax. The Taxpayer...
‘Lefa committee failed’
MASERU — Former Lesotho Football Association (Lefa) public relations officer, Tšiu Monne, says the current executive committee should not stand for elections in August because...
‘We will bounce back’
MASERU — Premier league giants Likhopo say they are not pressing the panic button yet despite languishing in the relegation zone. The 2006/2007 champions are...
Local athletes ready for Two Oceans marathon
MASERU — Eleven local athletes leave today for the Old Mutual Two Oceans Ultra Marathon in Cape Town, South Africa on Saturday. They are Lebenya...
Majantja anticipate ‘miraculous’ win
MASERU — When the best your team have managed in 16 matches is a single win and is rooted at the bottom of the log...
How to stop drug losses in the health sector
By Relebohile Senyane The last article focused on Lesotho’s efforts to realise the Millennium Development Goal on child and maternal health and the results...
Conflict Resolution: Managing disagreements in the workplace
Conflict is a fact of life. Closer to home we witnessed a prolonged high profile conflict in the former ruling Lesotho Congress for Democracy, that...