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Sport

Nasty LeFA, Tampane fight brews

Lesotho Times Jan 18, 2022 0

Leemisa Thuseho A NASTY clash could be brewing between the Lesotho Football Association (LeFA) and the Gender, Youth, Sport and Recreation Minister, Likeleli Tampane. This after…
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Sport

Nedbank’s Mohokare Golf Classic returns

Lesotho Times Jan 18, 2022 0

Leemisa Thuseho THE two-day Nedbank Mohokare Golf Classic tournament is returning this March, organising committee chairperson, Mpeake Sekhibane has said. The…
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Sport

Tšutšulupa targets flying start at Bantu

Lesotho Times Jan 18, 2022 0

Leemisa Thuseho THE newly appointed Bantu coach, Thabo Tšutšulupa, is geared for a flying start when his charges take on Linare in a Vodacom Premier League (VPL) at LCS on…
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Sport

Motšeremeli appointed Lesotho AUSC games team CDM

Lesotho Times Jan 18, 2022 0

Leemisa Thuseho LITŠITSO Motšeremeli has been appointed head of mission for Lesotho’s African Union Sports Council (AUSC) Region 5 Games. Motšeremeli’s appointment was…
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Sport

Shot in the arm for LNA

Lesotho Times Jan 18, 2022 0

Leemisa Thuseho METROPOLITAN Lesotho has donated off-the-field attire to the Lesotho Netball Association (LNA). Handed over in Maseru this week to the association, the…
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Sport

Tampane must stop making reckless statements

Lesotho Times Jan 18, 2022 0

Talking sports with Silence Charumbira COMPLIMENTS of the New Year dear reader. I hope you had a restful and safe festive season. We are starting this New Year on a…
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Sport

Basketball play-offs resumes

Lesotho Times Jan 18, 2022 0

Leemisa Thuseho THE delayed Lesotho Basketball Association (LBA) National Basketball League (NBA) play-offs finals will resume this weekend, the association has said. The finals…
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Crime & Courts

Sakoane summons DPP Motinyane to answer perjury allegations

Lesotho Times Jan 17, 2022 0

Mohalenyane Phakela CHIEF Justice Sakoane Sakoane has on Monday summoned the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Hlalefang Motinyane, to appear before him to answer charges of…
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Business

China Geo workers beg Labour Commissioner to intervene in labour dispute

Lesotho Times Jan 15, 2022 0

Bereng Mpaki THE Construction, Mining and Quarrying and Allied Workers Union (CMQ) has petitioned the Labour Commissioner in the Labour and Employment Ministry to intervene…
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News

Police brutality rears its ugly head again

Lesotho Times Jan 15, 2022 0

as prominent human rights lawyer is abducted and brutally tortured, while another lawyer goes into hiding as police threaten to kill him. Mohalenyane Phakela |…
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LCA-Sello saga: more skeletons tumble out of closet

Lesotho Times Jan 15, 2022 0

. . . as minister is accused of soliciting a M3 million bribe to approve tender Mohalenyane Phakela THE skeletons are continuing to tumble out of the closet…
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News

QMMH nurse arrested on corruption charges

Lesotho Times Jan 15, 2022 0

Limpho Sello A Queen Mamohato Memorial Hospital (QMMH) nurse has been arrested for illegally attempting to apply for a passport on behalf of a foreign national. In a…
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News

750 workers lose their jobs

Lesotho Times Jan 15, 2022 0

. . . as jobs carnage continue in the textiles sector Bereng Mpaki HIPPO Knitting, a Taiwanese-owned company in Ha Hoohlo, Maseru, has begun retrenching 750 workers as…
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News

Three men horse race for ABC leadership

Lesotho Times Jan 15, 2022 0

. . . as Ntsekele reportedly withdraws and throws weight behind Kabi ’Marafaele Mohloboli THE race to succeed founding All Basotho Convention (ABC) leader, Thomas Thabane, is…
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News

Sakoane fumes as treason trial fails to kick-off

Lesotho Times Jan 15, 2022 0

lead prosecutor Abrahams in no-show due to prior commitments, as Mochoboroane applies for discharge. Mohalenyane Phakela THE treason and murder trial of politicians, Selibe…
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News

Teachers’ strike looms

Lesotho Times Jan 15, 2022 0

Moorosi Tsiane RESTIVE teachers have threatened to go on strike to force the government to implement a career and salary structure agreed by the two sides in 2019. Over the past…
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News

Parliament re-opening brought forward

Lesotho Times Jan 15, 2022 0

…august house in race against time to finalise reforms bill, budget and other issues: Maema ’Marafaele Mohloboli THE re-opening of parliament has been brought forward to tomorrow…
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News

IEC forges ahead with delimitation of constituencies

Lesotho Times Jan 15, 2022 0

Mohalenyane Phakela THE Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) says it is forging ahead with the delimitation of constituencies ahead of this year’s elections. This…
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News

Lesotho’s job cuts entrench poverty, reverse women empowerment gains: analysts

Lesotho Times Jan 15, 2022 0

Staff Reporters THE year has got off to a bad start for workers amid reports that Hippo Knitting, a Taiwanese-owned garments factory, is retrenching 750 out of its 900 workers.…
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Scrutator

Fare the well my brother Thakalekoala

Lesotho Times Jan 14, 2022 0

My heart is very sore. I have no option but to bring forward the date of my resumption of work. This to mourn my friend, brother, uncle, nephew, cousin and all-time friend Thabo…
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Sport

Nasty LeFA, Tampane fight brews

Lesotho Times Jan 14, 2022 0

Leemisa Thuseho A NASTY clash could be brewing between the Lesotho Football Association (LeFA) and the Gender, Youth, Sport and Recreation Minister, Likeleli Tampane. This after…
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Sport

Nedbank’s Mohokare Golf Classic returns

Lesotho Times Jan 14, 2022 0

Leemisa Thuseho THE two-day Nedbank Mohokare Golf Classic tournament is returning this March, organising committee chairperson, Mpeake Sekhibane has said. The tournament failed to…
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Sport

Tšutšulupa targets flying start at Bantu

Lesotho Times Jan 14, 2022 0

Leemisa Thuseho THE newly appointed Bantu coach, Thabo Tšutšulupa, is geared for a flying start when his charges take on Linare in a Vodacom Premier League (VPL) at LCS on Sunday.…
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Sport

Motšeremeli appointed Lesotho AUSC games team CDM

Lesotho Times Jan 14, 2022 0

Leemisa Thuseho LITŠITSO Motšeremeli has been appointed head of mission for Lesotho’s African Union Sports Council (AUSC) Region 5 Games. Motšeremeli’s appointment was announced…
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Sport

Shot in the arm for LNA

Lesotho Times Jan 14, 2022 0

Leemisa Thuseho METROPOLITAN Lesotho has donated off-the-field attire to the Lesotho Netball Association (LNA). Handed over in Maseru this week to the association, the equipment is…
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Sport

Basketball play-offs resumes

Lesotho Times Jan 14, 2022 0

Leemisa Thuseho THE delayed Lesotho Basketball Association (LBA) National Basketball League (NBA) play-offs finals will resume this weekend, the association has said. The finals…
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Sport

Tampane must stop making reckless statements

Lesotho Times Jan 14, 2022 0

Silence Charumbira COMPLIMENTS of the New Year dear reader. I hope you had a restful and safe festive season. We are starting this New Year on a disappointing note after hearing…
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Business

CBL appoints Mohapi governor

Lesotho Times Jan 11, 2022 0

Bereng Mpaki THE Central Bank of Lesotho (CBL) has appointed Lehlomela Mohapi its acting governor to replace Retšelisitsoe Matlanyane, whose contract expired on…
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Crime & Courts

Prosecutor’s no show riles Sakoane

Lesotho Times Jan 10, 2022 0

Staff Reporters Chief Justice Sakoane Sakoane is unhappy with Prosecutor Shaun Abrahams's no show at the treason trial of Development Planning Minister Selibe Mochoboroane, former…
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News

Battle Royale for ABC leadership!!!

Lesotho Times Jan 7, 2022 0

...as Majoro, Kabi, Rapapa, Ntsekele vie to replace Thabane, ...Rapapa fires warning shots at rivals; derisively labels them ‘Maesaiah’s boys, ...vows to win and “retrieve the ABC…
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