Category : Crime & Courts

as police charge officers involved in bail decision Mohalenyane Phakela / Pascalinah Kabi The police say they will lay criminal charges against senior judicial officers...

Staff reporter IF ever Acting Chief Justice ’Maseforo Mahase’s detractors needed any ammunition to oppose her recommendation by outgoing Prime Minister Thomas Thabane, it was...

’Marafaele Mohloboli FINANCIAL Intelligence Unit (FIU) director, Palesa Khabele and eight other officers of the national anti-corruption entity are being investigated by police for fraud,...

’Marafaele Mohloboli LESOTHO Congress for Democracy (LCD) leader, Mothetjoa Metsing, has bizarrely blamed the murders of army commander Maaparankoe Mahao and Police Sub Inspector Mokheseng...

Mohalenyane Phakela ACTING Chief Justice, ‘Maseforo Mahase, yesterday won her Constitutional Court bid for the recusal of all local judges from presiding over All Basotho...

Mohalenyane Phakela DOUBLE ritual murder suspect, Lehlohonolo Scott, will have to wait until 12 February 2020 to know his fate. This after High Court judge...

Mohalenyane Phakela IT never rains but pours for former army commander, Lieutenant General Tlali Kamoli. Not only is the army commander set to spend a...

Mohalenyane Phakela ALL Basotho Convention (ABC) deputy leader, Professor Nqosa Mahao and his allies’ long wait for the hearing of their application for the nullification...

Pascalinah Kabi THE government’s insistence on hiring a South African lawyer, Advocate Guido Heinz Penzhorn, to defend Acting Chief Justice ‘Maseforo Mahase in the impeachment...

Mohalenyane Phakela THE second session of the Court of Appeal got underway on Monday 14 October 2019 and is expected to end on 1 November...

Mohalenyane Phakela THE much-anticipated All Basotho Convention (ABC) expulsions case will now be heard next week on 23 October 2019. High Court judge, Justice Tšeliso...

Ntsebeng Motsoeli THE Public Accounts Committee (PAC) this week lambasted the police and the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Offence (DCEO) for allegedly failing to...

Staff Reporters One of Lesotho’s oldest and most respected law firms, Webber Newdigate, has essentially accused one of its former partners of turning into a...

Mohalenyane Phakela A SENIOR judge, Justice Tšeliso Monapathi, has denied claims by some lawyers that the Constitutional Court flouted legal rules by electing to hear...

as PM Thabane promises to consider the LCD’ leader’s demands. ’Marafaele Mohloboli LESOTHO Congress for Democracy (LCD) leader, Mothetjoa Metsing, dropped a bombshell over the...

Mohalenyane Phakela MASERU Senior Resident Magistrate, Peter Murenzi, is disappointed by the slow pace of the attempted murder trial of the army officers who allegedly...

’Marafaele Mohloboli STEPHEN Dlamini, a South African national, who was handed a 62 year jail term in 2011 for defrauding the Lesotho Highlands Development Authority...

Mohalenyane Phakela A former minister accused of raping a 17 year old orphan  is now free after negotiating an out of court deal to build...

Mohalenyane Phakela EMBATTLED All Basotho Convention (ABC) deputy leader Professor Nqosa Mahao and four others’ High Court application challenging their “expulsion” from the ABC once...

Ntsebeng Motsoeli BARELY a week on from her horrific knife attack in her Lithabaneng home, All Basotho Convention (ABC) deputy spokesperson, ‘Matebatso Doti, is praying...

Nat Molomo A 2013 case of alleged police brutality has come back to haunt the Lesotho Mounted Police Service (LMPS) after the High Court on...

Pascalinah Kabi NEWLY-APPOINTED Director General of the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Offences (DCEO), Mahlomola Manyokole, has commenced processes to suspend the DCEO’s Chief Investigating...

 Pascalinah Kabi NEW Directorate on Corruption and Economic Offences (DCEO) boss, Mahlomola Manyokole, has rubbished allegations that he was “parachuted” to the top post to...

’Marafaele Mohloboli GOVERNMENT officials and victims have joined the growing local and international calls for Police Commissioner Holomo Molibeli to act against rogue police officers...

’Marafaele Mohloboli WHOEVER spoke about enduring pain and taking it like a man was obviously pontificating from the comfort of their own home. People often...

Pascalinah Kabi OPPOSITION Movement for Economic Change (MEC) legislator Thabo Ramatla is suing Police Commissioner Holomo Molibeli, Assistant Commissioner (ACP) Beleme Lebajoa and two members...

Mohalenyane Phakela THE M7 million Lesotho Post Bank fraud case has taken a new turn after Meriti Holdings co-owner, Teboho Mothebesoane, petitioned the High Court...

Ntsebeng Motsoeli THE Lesotho Defence Force’s (LDF) 11 Infantry Battalion recently confiscated 14 firearms from more than 300 Semonkong villagers who were on their way...