Category : Features & Analysis

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

  Land degradation has left rural Basotho in danger of losing the very source of their livelihoods     Pascalinah Kabi MOHALE’S HOEK- Technologies for Economic...

  Pascalinah Kabi He has been through the wringer in the few years he has been a commercial farmer but 34-year-old Hoaba Nkunyane is not...

    Pascalinah Kabi THABA-TSEKA – Mahali Tšoeu is in excruciating pain, but the 14-year-old trudges on as if nothing is amiss. A slight limp...

  Pascalinah Kabi MAFETENG – With Basotho traditions slowly fading away like the rainbow after a heavy downpour, the Taiwanese-owners of a Mafeteng-based orphanage have...

  Pascalinah Kabi Peeking under a girl’s uniform using a mirror is one of the many pranks Basotho teenagers play at school despite the anger...

  Pascalinah Kabi He is frail and coughing incessantly, but 61-year-old Katse Mok’hena smiles broadly as he is told his Ventilated Improved Pit (VIP) toilet is...

  Pascalinah Kabi MOKHOTLONG–A storm is brewing in Mokhotlong with residents demanding their concerns to be addressed first before they could be displaced by phase...

   Makhopotso Mothusi World Vision International is known for its unique approach to development issues, particularly those which seek to alleviate the suffering of less-fortunate...

  Pascalinah Kabi THIRTY years after Lesotho and South Africa signed the agreement on the Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP), an atmosphere of gloom and...

  Makatleho Mohapi MOHALE’S HOEK-The beauty of Ketane in Mohale’s Hoek is enchanting as it is an embodiment of this rolling district. Springs keep the...

  But 82-year-old Tšeliso Mpiti is not too sure if he can survive a disastrous winter cropping season after barely making it this summer  Pascalinah...

  Pascalinah Kabi Maletsie Makoro silently prayed for strength and wisdom soon after fellow Khohlontšo residents nominated her their Village Health Worker (VHW) in May...

  Pascalinah Kabi ROMA-Worried that years of sleepless nights spent studying at university would all be in vain, three enterprising Roma residents decided to take...

  Pascalinah Kabi MAFETENG – Sitting helplessly next to her bedridden mother five years ago, 14-year-old Palesa Shale (name changed to protect her identity) would...

  Pascalinah Kabi NAZARETH –Two Nazareth schools have been left without water and their students and teachers fearing for their lives due to a pasture...

  Stakeholders fear the worst over Tuberculosis   Pascalinah Kabi IT never rains but pours for Lesotho. After leapfrogging Botswana into second place in the...

  Pascalinah Kabi Sinohydro Corporation Limited —a Chinese company which was the main contractor in the construction of Metolong Dam and related infrastructure—has been supplying...

  Former agriculture minister Litšoane Litšoane is expecting a good harvest at his Leribe farms despite the drought devastating the country.  Pascalinah Kabi LERIBE –...

   . . . as widow grapples with taking care of special needs child Pascalinah Kabi SEHLABENG – Trapped in a body of a newborn...

  ‘Makatleho Mohapi BEREA-‘Mantsoaki Rakotsi forces a spoonful of porridge into the mouth of her crying 14-month-old daughter Blessing, but the infant is clearly not...

  Turf war between Basotho looking for gold in abandoned South African mineshafts spills into Qeme leaving a trail of destruction Pascalinah Kabi QEME-‘Malekata Lebuso...

Pascalinah Kabi LERIBE-Today marks exactly 14 months since four Khethisa High School students perished and 16 others were badly injured when a minibus taxi they...

  Exiled soldier, Lance-Corporal Tankiso Mokhele, grieves for his late wife  Keiso Mohloboli IT is exactly 13 months since Lance-Corporal Tankiso Mokhele fled the country...

  Butha-Buthe school becomes Lesotho’s first institution to offer Cambridge Advanced Level qualification Pascalinah Kabi BUTHA-BUTHE-Soofia English Medium School has made history by becoming the...

  Butha-Buthe school becomes Lesotho’s first institution to offer Cambridge Advanced Level qualification Pascalinah Kabi BUTHA-BUTHE-Soofia English Medium School has made history by becoming the...

  LERIBE – Ask 90-year-old Rammitsane Matela how climate conditions have changed over the years and he does not need to stretch his memory far...

  The ramifications of theft of public opinion  By: Adv. Haae Phoofolo K.C.  IN various platforms, there have been many brazen attempts to steal the...

  Pascalinah Kabi QUTHING – Hungry and not knowing where her two young children’s next meal would come from, Quthing single parent ‘Mafumane Mokhahlane eked...