Features & Analysis

  His Majesty King Mohammed VI has once again demonstrated that the Amazigh people are an important component of Moroccan society. For many years, the Amazigh, also known as Berbers,…

By Moses Magadza KINSHASA, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO – A symposium held shortly after the official opening of the 52nd Plenary Assembly Session of the SADC Parliamentary Forum had the…

  By Moses Magadza in Democratic Republic of Congo KINSHASA – The 52nd Plenary Assembly Session of the SADC Parliamentary Forum took place here last week with the Democratic Republic…

  By Moses Magadza JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA – A recent workshop for Members of Parliament from southern Africa focused on building the understanding of bodily autonomy and integrity (BAI) and…

Herbert Moyo LESOTHO is edging closer towards enacting a draconian cybercrimes law that prescribes hefty fines and lengthy jail terms for various cyber and computer crimes. People could be fined…

Limpho Sello A HA-LEQELE, Maseru family has accused the government and Queen ‘Mamohato Memorial Hospital (QMMH) authorities of denying their six-year-old daughter an opportunity to go for crucial surgery to…

. . . feels let down by a system that tolerates gender violence Staff Reporter *ROSA Molise sits in a black couch in her lounge staring at a blank wall.…

. . . disabled persons bemoan struggles in accessing sexual reproductive health services, . . . blame their struggles on the government’s failure to mainstream disability issues in health training.…

…children also trafficked, forced into commercial sex work, burglary and theft Herbert Moyo/ Limpho Sello LESOTHO’S children are subjected to the worst forms of child labour, the United States (US)…

Limpho Sello GOVERNMENT officials and other stakeholders have been engaging in a self-congratulatory exercise in the aftermath of the enactment of the long-delayed Persons with Disability Equity Act. The Act…

Limpho Sello FOUR months after the enactment of the landmark Persons with Disability Equity Act of 2021, the real work has begun in earnest to ensure persons with disabilities fully…

Pascalinah Kabi WOMEN in Lesotho have always played a major role in food production albeit at a subsistence level. In this patriarchal and gendered society, it is inculcated into every…

Pascalinah Kabi LOCKDOWN restrictions aimed at fighting the Covid-19 pandemic in Lesotho have had an unintended adverse negative impact of undermining women’s customary land rights, a regional human rights body…

Staff Writer HLOKOMELA Banana, a local non-profit organisation, is working to restore the dignity of Basotho girls, some of who miss school for over 50 days annually when they are…

Bereng Mpaki PARLIAMENTARIANS have been hogging the spotlight with their demands for a whopping 100 percent salary increment- a demand analysts say is “ridiculous and cruel” given the precarious state…

 Tsitsi Matope IT is one hell of a life in which only the fittest can survive. Cat-and-mouse games with the police, muggings by the criminal element and beatings my sadistic…

Keiso Mohloboli NEWLY appointed Lesotho Correctional Service (LCS) Commissioner Thabang Azael Mothepu is a young man on a huge mission. He wants to see a reformed LCS which will refrain…

Tsitsi Matope ‘MATEBOHO Mohase could not hide her fear as she expressed concerns over an implant contraceptive she wanted immediately removed at the Lesotho Planned Parenthood Association (LPPA) clinic in…

Mohalenyane Phakela WHEN he was forced to drop out of school due to financial challenges, Bokang Matsipa plunged headlong into the underworld of the illicit cultivation and trade of marijuana.…

Pascalinah Kabi SHE could have easily carried the mantle of the beauty of the plateaus of Semonkong, a tiny remote town 115km into the heart of Lesotho’s mountain ranges, but…

  Pascalinah Kabi WHEN Thabang Tlhapi opted for agriculture, and not the more popular woodwork at secondary school, little did he know that he had chosen his life’s passion. “I…

  Pascalinah Kabi LERIBE – The late Whitney Houston, a world-famous musician, once sang about how we all have dreams and how “everyone wants a chance to become someone”. The…

  Pascalinah Kabi LERIBE – The late Whitney Houston, a world-famous musician, once sang about how we all have dreams and how “everyone wants a chance to become someone”. The…

  Pascalinah Kabi SEVENTEENTH century English poet and civil servant John Milton is credited with coining the phrase “silver lining” which was eventually developed into the saying “every cloud has…

  Pascalinah Kabi BOBETE, THABA-TSEKA – Sixteen-year old ‘Mantsali Selumi can finally afford a smile thanks to the Lesotho Red Cross Society and Wateraid Southern Africa who built toilets at…

  Pascalinah Kabi MAFETENG – Polotso Mokhasi is a nursing mother from Ha Ralitabo in Kolo, Mafeteng. Having grown up in the isolated village, she knows only too well the…

  Pascalinah Kabi GENDER and Youth, Sports and Recreation Deputy Minister ‘Marefuoe Muso says the obstacles women were facing in their socio-economic advancement could only be addressed through a national…

    Young people who have witnessed the social and medical effect of mining on their parents are fighting for their rights.   Caelainn Hogan   On a hard shoulder…

  Land degradation has left rural Basotho in danger of losing the very source of their livelihoods     Pascalinah Kabi MOHALE’S HOEK- Technologies for Economic Development (TED)—a local non-governmental organisation…