Lioli duo set for Norway
MASERU — Two youngsters from Lioli Football Club will this month join the Savvian Norway Academy in yet another first for the Teyateyaneng giants. Lioli...
LCS takes early lead in voting
MASERU – Lesotho Correctional Service (LCS) have taken a healthy lead in the race to take part in this year’s Vodacom Soccer Spectacular tournament. According...
‘Maradona’ has faith in youthful Kick-For-Life FC
MASERU — The term “more than a football club” can at times be loosely bandied about. However in the case of Vodacom A-Division outfit Kick-For-Life...
Independence Cup gets M200 000 boost
MASERU – Metropolitan Lesotho and Standard Lesotho Bank have joined hands to bankroll this year’s Independence Cup to the tune of M200 000. The decision...
Raising Lesotho’s savings rate
BASOTHO’S piggy banks are either slim or starving and the current world economic uncertainty has not helped matters. The aggregate savings rate of the country...
Keep our cops happy
REPORTS that officers of the Lesotho Mounted Police Service (LMPS) are not happy with their salaries and working conditions should be treated with utmost urgency...
You are a probable you
“Life is a string of todays.” — Mark Nepo Spring is here and whether it finds you in a life situation you love or hate,...
Stop taking explicit pictures and videos
I AM sure most people have seen or at least read about the video that went viral on the internet, costing a prison warder and...
Limkokwing students to go for film internship in US
MASERU — Two Limkokwing University of Creative Technology film students will next month spend two weeks on an intensive film internship programme in the United...
Hotstix Mabuse unleashes polished performance
MASERU — Veteran jazz musician Sipho “Hotstix” Mabuse, 60, gave a polished performance at Manthabiseng Convention Centre last Saturday. The South African star set the...
Human trafficking brought to big screen
MASERU — The scourge of human trafficking was brought to the big screen last Friday when local film-house Ster-Kinekor hosted a show about the problem...
Cops mull strike
MASERU — Lesotho’s police officers are mulling a national strike over poor salaries and work conditions, the Lesotho Times can reveal. The Lesotho Times understands...
Motanyane calls it a day
MASERU — Lesotho Defence Force (LDF) commander Lieutenant General Thuso Motanyane retired yesterday after 38 years in the military service. Motanyane who joined the army...
Lawyer refuses to work for ‘peanuts’
MASERU — A senior lawyer has pulled out of a case in which eight men are facing death penalty if found guilty of attempting to...
Police officer shoots fiancée
MASERU — A police constable allegedly shot his fiancée following an argument last Thursday. The police officer who works at the Maseru Border Gate is...
A shameless crook
Of all sins in this world nothing gets Scrutator’s blood boiling like fraud and hypocrisy. It’s worse when you add arrogance into the mix. Businessman...
Tycoon gets 12 years for dodging tax
MASERU — Prominent businessman Osman Moosa was last Thursday convicted on 51 counts of fraud and tax evasion. Moosa, who is also the chairman of...
The worst is over, says Moosa
MASERU — Business tycoon Osman Moosa, who was convicted of dodging tax last week, says although the future of his business empire is under threat...
‘Law Society misdirected’
MASERU — The Law Society of Lesotho is misdirected in submitting that the Chief Justice Mahapela Lehohla acted against the constitution by delegating some of...
LCD to honour women
MASERU — The Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) women’s wing will on Saturday give awards to outstanding Basotho women in various fields. The league’s secretary-general,...
ABC youth league defies party
MASERU — The All Basotho Convention (ABC) youth league will go ahead with its conference tomorrow, defying a call by the party to postpone the...
Soccer season roars into life
MASERU — The 2011/12 Vodacom premier league season roars into life on Saturday, with defending champions LCS battling it out against first runners-up LDF at...
M2.5 million boost for games
MASERU — The Lesotho Sports and Recreation Commission (LSRC) has finally secured M2.5 million for Lesotho’s participation at this year’s All Africa Games. The 84-man...
Entrepreneurship is key to unlock Lesotho’s growth
The Harvard Journal of Economics broadly defines entrepreneurship as “the process of creating value by bringing together a unique package of resources to exploit an...
Lawyers can’t take peanuts
Two of the eight men on trial for attempting to assassinate Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili and topple the government in 2009 are now without legal...
The rise of Womenomics
“Women hold up half the sky.” — Chinese proverb Womenomics, coined by The Economist magazine when it stated, “Forget China, India and the Internet, economic...
Heroes do die young — why?
I missed meeting Tom Mboya by two years. By the time I paid my first visit to Nairobi for a journalism workshop in 1971, he...
Masekela, Mtukudzi lined up for Morija festival
MASERU — Superstars Hugh Masekela and Oliver Mtukudzi will perform at this year’s edition of the Morija Arts and Cultural Festival. So will South Africa’s...
SA Hip Hop star to rock Maseru
MASERU — South African award-winning hip hop star L-Tido is billed to perform at Litaleng Leisure Club tomorrow. The songster featured the likes of South...
Secret behind $80-million painting
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