Opposition MPs call for Lehohla’s ouster
MASERU — Five opposition MPs yesterday marched in Maseru to demand the removal of Lesao Lehohla as home affairs minister. The MPs accused Lehohla, who...
More trouble for radio presenter
MASERU — Veteran Radio Lesotho presenter Motlatsi Ncholu’s troubles are not yet over as the prosecution has filed court papers in the High Court in...
Factionalism splits LCD youth league
MASERU — The ruling Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) youth league will hold a conference to elect new leaders next month amid serious factional fights...
Consider MKM bail-out
THE proposal by a High Court judge for the government to push for a political solution to the MKM scandal could mark a significant turning...
Clarify policy on student loans
WE are grateful that the government has reversed its decision and granted loan-bursaries to all categories of deserving students wishing to receive tertiary education. However,...
JZ’s country of pretenders
INDEED, South Africans have really shown the world who they really are. Forget about a beautiful World Cup. Forget about confounding pessimists. Forget about a...
Mosisili to attend Sacu summit
MASERU — Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili is expected in Pretoria, South Africa, today to attend a two-day meeting of the Southern African Customs Union (Sacu)...
Lesotho loses out on World Cup extravaganza
MASERU — The World Cup has come and gone. The football tournament had promised so much, but delivered so little for Lesotho. A week after...
Matete quits Majantja
MASERU — Majantja FC president Sello Matete has parted ways with the relegated side after falling out with the club’s management. The veteran football administrator,...
Premier League forces clubs to pay up
MASERU — All Vodacom Premier League teams will not receive their prize monies for last season in full, the Lesotho Times can reveal. The teams...
Can Maduma survive?
MASERU — By the time Maduma kick off their first-ever Vodacom Premier League adventure at the end of August, their name will probably already be...
Lioli target LCS playmaker, Nyenye Rovers pair
MASERU — Lioli have targeted the Nyenye Rovers duo of winger Montoeli Senopo and goalkeeper Baholo Sefatsa as the former league champions seek to strengthen...
Sebata joins Mpumalanga Black Aces
MASERU — A local radio sports presenter, Lebohang Maketa, has joined South African Premier League side Mpumalanga Black Aces as the team’s office manager. Maketa,...
Local DJ engages female artists in music project
MASERU — Local TV personality Phakiso Mokhatla, better known as DJ Phakzino, has recruited 12 aspiring female musicians for his Deep Soul project that was...
Lehakoe to host jazzy Fridays
MASERU – There will be something jazzy to look forward to every last two Fridays of the month. Starting next month, Lehakoe Recreational and Cultural...
MKM splits government
MASERU — Sharp differences have emerged between the cabinet and the Central Bank of Lesotho (CBL) over how thousands of depositors with money locked up...
‘Open criminal case’
MASERU — The Central Bank of Lesotho (CBL) wants the directors of the troubled MKM and the now defunct Millennium Goal Society to face criminal...
BAC blasts anti-corruption body
MASERU — The opposition Basutoland African Congress (BAC) party wants the director-general of the anti-corruption directorate, Leshoele Thoahlane, to resign. The BAC accused Thoahlane of...
Mohaleroe, son ordered to return LMPTC money
MASERU — The Commercial Court has ordered a local lawyer to demand every cent received and spent by Makhoabe Mohaleroe and his son Pule Mohaleroe...
Man kills self after girlfriend cheats
MAFETENG — A 32-year-old Mafeteng man shot himself to death after he found his 23-year-old girlfriend in bed with another man last Saturday. Police spokesman...
Prisoner found dead
MASERU — A 25-year-old prisoner was found dead in his cell at Leribe police station last Tuesday morning. The man, whose name was not revealed...
Volunteer sexually assaulted
MASERU — A 26-year-old Maseru man who is facing charges of sexually assaulting and robbing an American Peace Corps volunteer was this week denied bail...
Fighting from within
MASERU — Tselane, like most other girls her age, was once a strong-willed teenager. She would defiantly stand her ground and say no to premarital...
MKM case needs decisive action
THE MKM saga has rumbled on for a long time with no solution in sight for the 400 000 plus mostly impoverished citizens who were...
Lesotho urged to clamp down graft
MASERU — Lesotho’s natural resources can spur the country’s economic growth if the government clamps down on corrupt activities within the mining sector, a consultant...
Local hotel launches new-look gym, beauty salon
MASERU — Lesotho Sun International last Thursday launched a new spa and beauty salon as part of the hotel’s upgrading programme. The reopening of the...
Bantu sign hitman Boseka
MASERU — Bantu has completed the signing of Mosiuoa Boseka from Swallows for the second highest transfer fee in Lesotho football history. The 18-year-old playmaker...
Lioli upgrade stadium
MASERU — Lioli will spend M120 000 to erect a fence around its home ground in Teyateyaneng before the start of the season. Work started...
Basotho youths off to Fifa football festival
MASERU — Eight Basotho youngsters left the country for Johannesburg, South Africa, on Sunday to compete in the Fifa 2010 Football for Hope Festival. The...
Nana Coyote: the giant has fallen
MASERU — Popular Lesotho-born musician, Nana Coyote, has died. Coyote, 55, whose real name was Tsietsi Daniel Motijoane, died at Helen Joseph Hospital in Johannesburg,...