Cricket league finale delayed
MASERU — Cricket lovers will have to wait a little longer to know the champions of Lesotho. The five-team national championship was due to be...
Arsenal slip up
MASERU — Arsenal suffered a potentially fatal blow in their bid to gain promotion to the Premier League when they were shocked 2-1 at home...
Just give your lawyer a loti
So we have bullies in parliament. I hear one of them was threatening to re-arrange someone’s dental make-up at a meeting last Thursday to discuss...
Farming scandal
Block farmers fail to repay M74m loan MASERU — More than 100 block farmers have not repaid the government-guaranteed loans they received from a...
Malie seethes over block farmers
MASERU — Former trade minister Mpho Malie is breathing fire over the embezzlement of state funds by block farmers. Malie, who resigned from the government...
Leribe farmers defy odds
LERIBE — They might have failed to pay back their government-guaranteed loans but some farmers still believe all is not lost for block farming. This...
All set for Miss Schools
MASERU — Miss Maseru High Schools is set for next month. The pageant, organised by Young Christian Workers (YCW), will see 10 models from as...
New energy drink storms Lesotho
MASERU — The Playboy energy drink has stormed Lesotho with pizzazz as promoters of the beverage in the kingdom last weekend threw bashes around the...
Victoria hosts ‘Back to the 80s’ gig
MASERU — Meloding Lounge at Victoria Hotel will this Saturday host an evocative show dubbed “Back to the 80s”. Well-known local disc-jockeys — including Tseko,...
Molemi getting better with age
MASERU — Having visited our country twice in the space of three months, it is only fitting that we take a closer look at Mo...
Parly snubs Ombudsman’s recommendation
MASERU — A parliamentary committee has thrown out a recommendation by the Ombudsman to force the Bureau of Statistics to reinstate a trainee woman who...
Fix constitution, electoral law: Sadc
MASERU — A troika of the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) has called for the adoption of a roadmap that will see Lesotho amend the...
Cop guilty of murder
MASERU — Trooper Mothobi Moholi’s 17-year career as a police officer came to a screeching halt on Monday. Moholi was in court to answer a...
Measles outbreak kills 7 in Quthing
MASERU — A measles outbreak has killed seven children in Quthing district over the past month, the Ministry of Health said this week. There were...
This is sabotage
IN this issue we carry a story about 100 block farmers who have failed to repay their government-guaranteed loans to a local commercial bank. The...
Poverty reduction: where’s the proof?
On February 12, 2010, Minister of Finance and Development Planning Honourable Timothy Thahane delivered his annual National Budget to Parliament. One of the most contentious...
Intelserve got story on Chief Justice wrong
THIS letter is in response to an article which appeared on the Intelserv website written by Thulo Hoeane and Ntebaleng Matsie which was titled “Lawyer...
The media bumpkin at it again
FOR months now Scrutator has been complaining bitterly about people who masquerade as journalists. I have shouted my voice hoarse as these gatecrashers — because...
‘Dynamic private sector key to economic growth’
MASERU — The principal secretary in the Ministry of Trade and Industry, Co-operatives and Marketing, Teleko Ramotšoari, has said a dynamic private sector holds the...
LRA takes awareness drive to schools
MASERU — The Lesotho Revenue Authority (LRA) and the Ministry of Education and Training will hold a school debating competition as part of an information...
Red card for Pitso
MASERU — The Premier League has all but banned Matlama from using Pitso Ground as their home for high-profile matches following last month’s violence at...
Botswana team snaps up local player
MASERU — Lehlomela Ramabele, first division side Mabeoana’s top marksman, has been snapped up by Botswana Premier League team Botswana Defence Force XI on a...
Title race too close to call
MAFETENG — With the top fives sides separated by just six points, even a sangoma would have trouble predicting the destination of the M100 000...
Top Mount shelved
MASERU – The popular Top Mount Inter-District Competition has been shelved after district football associations failed to submit their financial reports for last year’s tournament...
Windfall for torture
MASERU — The High Court on Monday awarded M110 010 in damages to a Maseru woman who was tortured by the police while in detention...
Ministry fails to supply books
MASERU — The Ministry of Education and Training has failed to supply stationery to government-owned primary schools. Most of the schools have not received books,...
C-River workers blast ‘slow’ liquidator
MASERU — Former employees of C-River, a Taiwanese owned textile firm that went bust three years ago, are up in arms against the liquidator of...
BNP fight spills into parliament
MASERU — Basotho National Party (BNP) leader Metsing Lekhanya says his party will challenge a clause of the constitution of Lesotho allowing Seabata Thabisi to...
Party youth leagues blast national budget
MASERU — Youth leagues of the country’s opposition parties say they are not happy that the budget presented last Friday failed to address serious problems...
Parties to make up new youth council
MASERU — The proposed National Youth Council (NYC) will be made up of three youths from leading political parties, two of whom shall be nominated...