Cement firm enhances products
MASERU — Major cement manufacturer, Pretoria Portland Cement (PPC), has announced significant enhancement of their products that offers users 15 percent more value. The new...
Fresh start for Likuena
MASERU — Lesotho national team coach Leslie Notši this week selected a provisional 42-man team as the search for the next squad began in earnest....
Bantu sets mandate to win league
MASERU – Bantu’s mandate for the coming season is clear – to win the Vodacom Premier League title. The ambitious target was set at the...
Nteso appointed Linare CEO
MASERU — Vodacom Premier League club Linare have appointed Tšepo Nteso as chief executive officer (CEO). Linare general secretary Thato Molapo confirmed the development on...
New Lioli coach gets tough targets
MASERU — New Lioli coach Retšelisitsoe Lephaila (pictured) says he has been instructed to win two cup competitions by the club’s national executive committee. Lephaila,...
Where have all the racists gone?
THIS was the question the Right Honourable Peter Gerald Haines asked when he visited South Africa soon after 1994. The government was then headed by...
Too good to be true
THIS week’s news that a South African burial society had raised M2.5 billion to bail out MKM should have triggered wild celebrations. It didn’t. Instead,...
Mobile phone gender gap
“Women in rural areas and lower income brackets stand to benefit the most from closing the gender gap.” GSMA report THE mobile phone is so...
Involve the most marginalised for guaranteed growth
LESOTHO has recently embarked on a new initiative to accelerate growth in support of Vision 2020. The recent financial crisis and its ensuing recession exposed...
South Sudan: So many lessons to learn from
OF the 30 or so African heads of state at last week’s inauguration of South Sudan’s birth as a nation only a few could link...
Service providers must pay for their failures
THERE are a few corporations that I believe should be sued by the people for not exactly performing their corporate duties. One of the first...
What’s wrong with bailing out troubled companies?
IN one of my previous articles I blamed Africans for contributing to the slave trade. When the Caucasians landed on the African shores off their...
Does donor aid work?
By Thupa Kubu NEWS that came out in one BBC radio programme at the recent G8 summit was that developed countries were willing to provide...
DJ Mekonko celebrates birthday in style
MASERU – Maseru almost came to a standstill on Saturday as revellers flocked to Times Café to celebrate DJ Mekonko’s 30th birthday. Top South African...
Miss Vodacom PC FM postponed
MASERU – The Miss Vodacom PC FM beauty pageant which was scheduled for this month has been postponed to September, the organisers said on Friday....
Ster-Kinekor rewards fan
MASERU — Movie fan, Mothiane Kopo, walked away M1 000 richer on Friday for joining Ster-Kinekor’s social network fan page. Kopo, 20, was given the...
Money transfer scam
MASERU — CGM Industrial (Pty) Ltd (CGM Industrial), a garment factory that received a M30 million bail-out from the government of Lesotho, is allegedly siphoning...
Retrenchment looms at national abattoir
MASERU — Lesotho National Abattoir could be forced to retrench workers this month as a meat shortage that began in February persists, the Lesotho Times...
MKM saga takes yet another twist
MASERU — The MKM saga has taken yet another twist after a shareholder in one of the companies under the group approached the High Court...
Parly to be ready by October
MASERU — The new M70 million parliament building will be ready for use by October, principal secretary in the Ministry of Public Works and Transport,...
Drunken masters
Scrutator has never been in the business of playing “mother” to people or being a moral prefect for others but today, just for this once,...
Workers fired in pay dispute
MASERU — Workers at garment manufacturer Shinning Century Limited were summarily fired on Monday after they downed tools demanding payment for long-service. Shinning Century Limited...
US pledges M34 million for HIV programme
MASERU — The United States has pledged about US$5 million (M34 million) to strengthen Lesotho’s prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV programme. The US...
Two in court for robbing nuns
MASERU — Two men appeared in the Maseru Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday to answer charges of robbing two Catholic nuns of their car at Ha...
Church project keeps hunger at bay
MOHALE’S HOEK — Reverend Thabang Moletsane, 53, of the Lesotho Evangelical Church, says they are farming in God’s way. Quoting liberally from the Bible book...
A national security issue
Reports by Lesotho Defence Force (LDF) commander Lieutenant General Thuso Motanyane that the army is facing severe budgetary constraints should come as a real cause...
Seven principles for every CEO
IF YOU are a chief executive officer (CEO) who has the desire to champion women’s issues but is at a loss as to how to...
The government has no business running businesses
ABOUT four weeks ago a friend of mine introduced me to an American citizen named Justin. Justin was a philosophy graduate, aspiring novelist-turned-fulltime tourist who...
Julius Malema and the land question
IN TODAY’S South African political scenario Julius Malema has become the most outstanding exponent of land and wealth redistribution in South Africa. The leader of...
Who should be scared of the Chinese?
THE first people of Chinese descent I ever met in my life ran a tea-room on the edge of The Old Bricks, in Harare Township,...