Category : Opinion
Thabane needs to urgently tackle problems in judiciary
Poloko Mokhele TWO years after regaining power on the back of promises to implement multi-sector reforms, restore political stability, tackle rampant corruption and unemployment as...
Thoughts on the current discourses on reconciliation and unity
Nthakeng Pheello Selinyane A SPECTRE is haunting our Mountain Kingdom. It is a spectre of muddled discourses on national reconciliation and unity. But we have...
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Saving the goose that lays the golden egg
EXASPERATED investors’ threats to dump the country over safety concerns should not be taken lightly. The government and in particular, the Lesotho Mounted Police Service...
If it’s not xenophobia, then what is it?
Mavuso Msimang AFRICAN National Congress and government responses to recent crises arising from the presence in the country of asylum seekers, genuine and otherwise, raises...
Rights not about numbers: UN
By Moses Magadza LILONGWE – The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) recently partnered with the Ministry of Health in Malawi to support...
Report GBV cases: Namibia’s AG
Moses Magadza Windhoek- Renewed calls have been made for victims of gender based violence (GBV) to be empowered to report it and for coordinated action...
President Xi’s visit to boost China-Italy ties under BRI: Italian PM
I think Xi’s visit will play a very important role, giving a greater impulse to our relation- Giuseppe Conte, Prime minister, Italy ROME — Chinese President Xi...
Press Conference By H.E. Wang Yi, Foreign Minister of China at the 13th National People’s Congress (Excerpt)
Wang Yi: Friends from the media, good morning. It’s my great pleasure to host this annual press conference again on the margins of the National...
‘Really cool, day or night’: readers’ top modern European architecture
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The ABC must put its house in order
THE ongoing chaos in the All Basotho Convention (ABC) makes for sad reading especially at this time when the party and the government should be...
Southern Africa’s problem of elite impunity
FORMER South African deputy foreign affairs minister Aziz Pahad’s support for the Maduro regime in Venezuela throws into sharp relief the acceptance by political elites...
How Lesotho could abandon its army and put the money to better use
Geoffrey Thomas Harris Lesotho allocated USD$52.6 million (Maloti 698 million) to its military in 2017 – or 3.9 percent of government expenditure. This is a figure...
In defence of Chief Justice Mahase
Thulo Hoeane I WAS in Acting Chief Justice ‘Maseforo Mahase’s court last week in a matter in which the suspended Chief Justice Nthomeng Majara has...
Time for moral regeneration
MOST of us are on cloud nine as we continue to celebrate the milestone of our country’s 52nd anniversary of independence. However, we feel that...
An open letter to SADC
Thulo Hoeane I SELDOM write open letters but over the last month or so I have been deeply disturbed by what is going on around...
Black women in business: Why there are still so few at the top
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Judges are answerable to the government
Thulo Hoeane IN THE good old days when the judiciary in this country was above reproach, there were judges like Justice Peter Mofokeng, Justice Baptista...
Time waits for no man
WE only know of one instance where the biblical Joshua successfully petitioned God to make the sun stand still and not set until he had...
When corruption becomes a way of life
Thulo Hoeane TO the everlasting and eternal shame of the seven party coalition of Pakalitha Mosisili this country – the Auditor General has revealed in...
Political hygiene – a need for Lesotho
Moletsane Makhabane Lesotho’s development is stalling if one compares it with other African countries, it rather paradoxical to understand the reasons behind the whole issue....
Calling for a GNU and derailing reforms
Thulo Hoeane I LISTENED with shock to an interview over a local station during which the leader of the Popular Front for Democracy (PFD), Lekhetho...
Kudos to the premier
PRIME Minister Thomas Thabane’s address at his weekend All Basotho Convention (ABC) party rally in Mafeteng must be welcomed by all patriotic Basotho who want...
Justice for Mahao, No to TRC
Thulo Hoeane THREE years down the line the death of Maaparankoe Mahao the slain former Lieutenant – General of the Lesotho Defence Force still instils...
ABC must deal with the elephant in the room
HISTORY is littered with so many examples of once iconic political movements or parties that eventually imploded into complete ignominy. Take for instance the example of...
We cannot go on like this
ONE lesson we have learnt from the resolutions of this week’s Southern African Development Community (SADC) Double Troika Summit is that the regional body’s patience...
Violence and Harassment in the workplace
Maletsie Letsie (Labour Inspector- Industrial Relations Section) Violence and harassment in the workplace is abuse of power and it affects men, women, and children. It...
Reforms: Electoral model must be our first port of call
Thulo Hoeane LESOTHO’S Mixed Member Proportional (MMP) electoral model is arguably one of the most cumbersome areas of our political life that we need to...
SAPMIL should be given enough time
THE call by the Lesotho Defence Force (LDF) for the extension of the tour of duty of the SADC Standby Force should not come as...