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Editorial OUR body politic is characterised by perennial squabbles over so many issues but one thing that is sure to unite Basotho across the partisan divide is the decision by…

  HEADS much wiser than our own have wondered at the propensity of human beings to fear so many things including goblins and supernatural creatures whose existence has never been…

  ANOTHER Southern African Development Community’s (SADC) summit beckons next week, with Lesotho once again expected to hog the limelight. Hearteningly, it is not for delinquency that the Mountain Kingdom…

  IT can never be over-emphasised that any government must do everything in its power to engender public confidence and it would appear that the four party coalition is going…

  THE use of surveillance equipment to spy on any individual, more so the prime minister of a country is bound to suggest sinister motives. As we report elsewhere in…

LAST Friday, King Letsie III called for the speedy implementation of all the Southern African Development Community (SADC) recommendations and the depoliticisation of security institutions to ensure stability in the…

  THE pledge by the newly-elected Marematlou Freedom Party (MFP) executive committee to work with government on developmental issues is commendable given the long history of self-inflicted penury brought on…

THERE is certainly no honeymoon period for the new Thomas Thabane-led four parties’ coalition government in the aftermath of his inauguration as Prime Minister last Friday. Dr Thabane must feel…

  ALL Basotho Convention (ABC) leader, Thomas Thabane’s inauguration as prime minister at Setsoto Stadium tomorrow will certainly be accompanied by the pomp and fanfare but beyond that, the veteran…

  THE war of words which erupted this week between Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili and his Labour Minister, Advocate Thulo Mahlakeng would have been comical had they not been tragic,…

  EUROPEAN Union Ambassador Michael Doyle’s remarks on the urgent need to implement the reforms agenda only serves to show that there will be no hiding place for whichever government…

  WE could not agree more with local analysts who have underscored the need for the country to enact laws to establish oversight and vetting processes in the hiring of…

  IT would be easy to dismiss Alliance of Democrats (AD) leader and former ruling Democratic Congress (DC) deputy leader, Monyane Moleleki’s allegations of rampant corruption in the current seven…

  ELSEWHERE in this edition, the four-party opposition alliance has undertaken to block the government from accessing public funds to bankroll the snap general elections scheduled for later this year.…

  OUR beautiful Mountain Kingdom is one country which prides itself on following the Westminster model of parliamentary democracy and part of that package includes giving up power when the…

  GIVEN the rate at which we continually churn out negative reports about failed policies and programmes, it is only the eternal optimist who could hold fast to the picture…

  ANOTHER year, another month and another party is set to enter the political fray fronted by former Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) secretary-general and current Small Business Development Minister,…

  BACK in 1992, just a few months after her return to South Africa from a long exile in the United States which had begun in 1965, Afro-jazz legend Letta…

  THE country’s political parties have been holding rallies to galvanise their supporters as electioneering gathers momentum ahead of possible elections that could be called by Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili…

  THE United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) indicates that as far as economic development is concerned, Lesotho is going nowhere and very fast too. According to UNCTAD…

  IT has been said when elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers most and nowhere is this truer than the present circumstances in this our beloved Mountain Kingdom.…

  LESOTHO has been named among the world’s most improved economies for doing business in the World Bank’s influential Ease of Doing Business rankings for 2017, cracking the top 100…

  THE Amnesty Bill of 2016 which seeks to grant members of the security sector a blanket amnesty for offences committed between January 2007 and December 2015 has become a…

  PRINCE Seeiso Bereng Seeiso’s statement bemoaning the “far slower pace” of Lesotho’s politico-economic and social development in relation to its “sister” countries should be food for thought for all…

  THE Mountain Kingdom’s main independence golden jubilee celebrations are almost upon us. Only five days stand between us and the momentous occasion set for next Tuesday. There is no…

  A CLIMATE of fear has engulfed the country following the myriad of killings and attempted murders over the course of this year. In this edition, an opposition legislator fled…

  IF anyone thought the Millennium Challenge Corporation’s (MCC) warning to withdraw aid to countries that fail to meet its eligibility criteria were idle words, they were disabused of that…

  LESOTHO is by-and-large a relative haven in comparison to our crime-ridden neighbour South Africa. Many Basotho have found comfort in the knowledge that they can go about their business…

  AS a nation, we are sometimes preoccupied with a lot of seemingly important endeavours at the expense of simple but vital issues that could mean the difference between life…

  MOVES by the government and opposition to map out a framework for the return of exiled political leaders deserve utmost commendation. As reported in this edition, representatives of the…