Vodacom promises hottest concert
MASERU — Telecommunications giant Vodacom Lesotho is set to host an end-of-year concert at Maseru Club on December 17 with some of South Africa’s hottest...
Miss Teen postponed
MASERU — Lesotho’s first Miss Teen beauty contest has been postponed to December 18. The pageant was initially pencilled in for this Saturday but has...
Comedy finally launched after court battle
MASERU — The comedy Lilaphalapha II was launched at Ster-Kinekor at Pioneer Shopping Mall last Friday. The launch was however delayed by two hours following...
‘No pay increase for NUL lecturers’
MASERU — The government says there is no money to pay the 15 percent salary increase that striking National University of Lesotho (NUL) lecturers and...
2 soldiers shot dead
MASERU — Two Lesotho Defence Force (LDF) soldiers were shot dead on Tuesday morning while on duty at Health Minister Mphu Ramatlapeng’s residence in Maseru...
Envoy to SA calls for dual citizenship
MASERU — Lesotho’s envoy to South Africa is allegedly lobbying for dual citizenship for Basotho nationals in South Africa in a move that has angered...
Cowards in our midst
I N the United States they used to lynch black people. White men, especially the conservative ilk, were at the forefront of this barbaric habit....
LCD suspends polls in Qacha’s Nek
QACHA’S NEK — A primary election in which Local Government Minister Ponts’o Sekatle was supposed to face a fierce challenge from a former district administrator...
14-year-old jailed for raping toddlers
MASERU — A 14-year-old Leribe boy will spend the next six years in a juvenile centre after he was found guilty of raping two five-year-old...
Man kills girlfriend, buries her in garden
MASERU — He killed his girlfriend and buried her body in a garden. And for two weeks he claimed he knew nothing about her whereabouts....
Bill to control food quality
MASERU — The days of shops selling rotten and expired foodstuffs could soon be over after cabinet last week approved a bill that seeks to...
Chase for education loan defaulters begins
MASERU — The chase has begun. This week the National Manpower Development Secretariat (NMDS) began sending letters to employers in Lesotho asking them to submit...
Judge dismisses bank’s absolution case
MASERU — The High Court on Monday dismissed an application by First National Bank (FNB) to be absolved from a case in which a client...
Mosisili to launch 16 days Days of Activism campaign
MASERU — Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili is today expected to officially launch the start of the 16 days of activism against gender violence. The Ministry...
Cop sues for M450 000
MASERU — A police officer is suing the police commissioner for M450 000 after he was shot and seriously injured by the police during a...
More than half of Lesotho’s children live in poverty
MASERU — More than half of all children in Lesotho are living in absolute poverty. This is according to the latest figures released by the...
Standard Bank crowned the best investment bank
MASERU — Standard Bank has been named the best investment bank in Africa for 2011 in the EMEA Finance magazine awards. In a statement the...
World Bank funds water projects
MASERU — Lesotho and the World Bank last Thursday signed financing agreements worth US$23 million (about M189 million) for the Metolong Dam and Water Supply...
LCS suspend two players
MASERU — Lesotho Correctional Service (LCS) have suspended two key players who went AWOL on the eve of their tie against Bantu FC on Sunday....
Big guns set for Vodacom Soccer Spectacular
MASERU — The Vodacom Soccer Spectacular goes down to the wire this weekend at Setsoto Stadium with the semi-finals on Saturday and the final on...
Lesotho face uphill task
MASERU — Lesotho women’s under-20 team face an uphill task to make it through to the next round of 2012 Fifa Under-20 World Cup qualifying...
Lioli winger set to leave for Spain
MASERU — Lioli winger ‘Montoeli Sonopo is finally set to leave for Spain after he signed his contract and received his travel visa last week....
Roof of Africa roars to life
MASERU — The much-awaited Roof of Africa roars into life at Maseru Club this morning with an estimated 26 top international riders expected to take...
NMDS must find reasons why former students are defaulting
By Ma’eka Makôkô I READ with shock a story in the Lesotho Times recently that the National Manpower Development Secretariat (NMDS) is planning to chase...
Attack on journalists misguided and uncalled for
IT is every Mosotho’s democratic right to protest and voice their concerns on issues affecting them. This is exactly what the coalition of taxi operators,...
Private sector boss must step down
Osman Moosa, who was convicted of tax fraud in August, is putting up the “Mother of all Fights” to retain his position as chairman of...
Good news for women in business
IN the Sunday Times edition of November 13, the American management guru Tom Peters stated that “the world has entered the age of Womenomics”. He...
US, Europe paying for looting Africa?
IT was bound to happen: one of our soothsayers — sangomas or ngakas— was bound to stumble upon “the truth”: Europe and the United States...
It’s tough to be young in Lesotho
IT IS tough being young and gifted in our beautiful mountainous country. . . kapa joang! Actually, it is tough being the youth in Lesotho...
Feature film on HIV prevention to be launched
MASERU — A new feature film that focuses on preventing the spread of HIV will be officially launched at Manthabiseng Convention Centre on Wednesday. The...