Siverts blames indiscipline for high failure rate
ROMA — Professor Sharon Siverts, the National University of Lesotho (NUL) Vice-Chancellor, has blamed staff indiscipline for the “higher than normal failure rate”. Siverts made...
Vice-chancellor says hopes strike won’t go ahead
ROMA — Professor Sharon Siverts says she hopes the Lesotho University Teachers and Researchers Union (Lutaru) will cancel their strike planned for next month and...
NUL owes M34 million to staff
ROMA — National University of Lesotho (NUL) Vice-Chancellor Professor Sharon Siverts says the university owes M34 million worth of leave days to its nearly 2...
Voters’ roll inflated by 100 000
MASERU — Lesotho’s voters’ roll is currently inflated by over 110 000 voters due to failure to clean the register regularly. In a report titled,...
LRA boss quizzed on search
MASERU — Lesotho Revenue Authority (LRA) Commissioner General, Thabo Letjama, said the investigation team had no intention to break in when they raided textile firm,...
‘Graft escalates in government’
MASERU — About 77 percent of respondents in a government commissioned survey say corruption is now more widespread than in 1999 when the Directorate on...
Musician who was facing murder charge shot dead
MASERU — Boithatelo Leopa was granted bail on July 8. Six days later he was dead. Armed gunmen pumped four bullets into Leopa’s body. The...
Flea market to open at Maseru Club
MASERU — A local marketing company says it will open a flea market at the Maseru Club ground next Saturday. Seeng Monyane, a representative of...
UK institute launches health courses
MASERU — A United Kingdom educational institute has launched new health and social-care courses in Lesotho. The Association of Business Managers and Administrators (ABMA) has...
Thotanyana, Nkhethoa vie for league’s top post
MASERU — Linare chairman Sekhohola Nkhethoa and Lioli president Lebohang Thotanyana are leading the race for the job of premier league chairman, the Lesotho Times...
Lioli say ‘Muso not for sale
MASERU — Lioli Football Club have issued a hands-off warning to Likhopo after they stepped up their interest in key striker Sello ‘Muso last week,...
Linare struggle on transfer market
HLOTSE — Vodacom Premier League giants Linare are struggling to recruit quality players on the transfer market to beef up their team this season. Tse...
Top golfer Moloi returns from knee injury layoff
MASERU — Leading professional golfer Motlalentoa Moloi is set to return from a knee injury layoff when he takes part at the Simola Championship in...
Aids: Is message getting across?
AIDS constitutes an alarming threat in Lesotho, where nearly a quarter of the adult population is estimated to be HIV positive — the third highest...
Embrace change or sink into irrelevance
NATIONAL University of Lesotho (NUL) Vice-Chancellor Professor Sharon Siverts’ assessment of what needs to be done at the country’s premier institute of higher learning was...
Choices women make
“If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.” — Steve Jacobs THE doldrums is a phrase...
Lesotho Television is an insult to Basotho
I AM appalled and disgusted by the shoddy quality of Lesotho Television (LTV) programmes. The television station has become a national embarrassment to Basotho. As...
Are we Africans so easy to please?
THE passage below, from Barack Obama’s book, Dreams From My Father, reminded me of a month-long visit to the US by a group of 30 of...
Give me spring all year round
WE are literally in the middle of winter and man is it cold or what! But strangely enough we have had some rather warm, actually...
Vodacom Superstar set for grand finale
MASERU — The search for the Vodacom Superstar has now reached a crescendo. The telecommunications giant on Monday announced five finalists who will battle it...
Morija Arts and Cultural Festival preparations underway
MASERU — Preparations for this year’s Morija Arts and Cultural Festival are now in full swing with organisers conducting road shows throughout the country. The...
Doubts over MKM bailout
MASERU — A South African burial society on Monday said it had raised M2.5 billion to bail out the troubled MKM and repay its nearly...
. . . as burial society faces collapse
MASERU — MKM Burial Society might soon fail to bury some of its members because of a crippling financial crisis. There are now fears that...
High Court orders army to free soldier
MASERU — The High Court on Saturday ordered the army to release a soldier who complained that he had been detained and harassed by officers...
Businessman faces theft, fraud charges
MASERU — A prominent businessman, Ashraff Abubaker, and lawyer, Steve Buys, appeared in the High Court this week facing charges of theft, fraud and defeating...
Giving people hope where there is none
Scrutator was having a “Lazy Monday” when whispers reached her that a Free State man with roots in Lesotho was claiming to have cobbled up...
High rentals push council out of LNDC building
MASERU – The Maseru City Council (MCC) has been forced to move out of its Lesotho National Development Corporation (LNDC) head office because of skyrocketing...
Famo artistes charged with murder
MASERU — Famo music artistes Sarele Sello and Boithatelo Leopa appeared before the Mafeteng Magistrate’s Court on Friday to answer charges of murder. The two...
Trade unions want labour boss out
MASERU — Several trade unions are today expected to meet Labour Minister ’Maphoka Motoboli to push for the dismissal of Labour Commissioner ’Mamohale Matsoso. The...
Ex-soldier guilty of killing wife’s lover
MASERU — A former soldier who shot dead his wife’s lover after he found the two in a compromising position at a local lodge was...