Category : Features & Analysis

  Council, businesses see red over garbage   Pascalinah Kabi A time-bomb. A hazard slowly developing into a crisis unless the situation is brought under...

  Bongiwe Zihlangu They are the first point of care at community level, ensuring HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis (TB) patients as well as pregnant mothers, take...

  A combination of climate-related catastrophes and a freak of nature leaves many households facing acute food shortage.   Makhopotso Mothusi HA-MAKOATHI-Napo Ramalepe looks at...

  Lekhetho Ntsukunyane MOHALE’S HOEK-World Food Programme (WFP) Country Director Mary Njoroge has urged Basotho to “seriously consider doing things differently” for their survival because...

. . . accuse lodge management of conniving with tourists to exploit them Rethabile Pitso QACHA’S NEK-Sehlabathebe villagers are up in arms with the “authorities”...

  Makhopotso Mothusi Qacha’s Nek Many primary school students in Qacha’s Nek District are used to the high altitude and the mountainous environment. However, that...

  Rethabile Pitso The National Strategic Development Plan (NSDP) 2012/13 to 2016/17, puts emphasis on reduction of poverty through high, shared job creating and sustainable...

…as contractors give them a wide berth in favour of ‘foreigners’ ’Mantoetse Maama Shakhane Makoanyane gazes into the distance, and his vacant stare betrays an...

  Billy Ntaote A proposal by the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) to have voter-validation machines at polling stations was rejected by party leaders this week....

  Letuka Chafotsa QACHA’S NEK-A Basotho National Party (BNP) government would seek closer ties with South Africa to ensure Lesotho citizens benefit more from their...

  Sofonea Shale THE conflict over the conduct of Southern African Development Community (SADC) facilitator to Lesotho, Deputy South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, has not...

  Billy Ntaote Twenty-one computers stolen from the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC)’s Maseru warehouse in October last year could not have been used to tamper...

  Billy Ntaote Lesotho Council of Non-Governmental Organisations Executive Director, Seabata Motsamai, has lamented the absence of local “experts” in regional efforts to restore stability...

  …warns govt to ensure a conducive environment for an effective judiciary   Lekhetho Ntsukunyane CHIEF Justice Nthomeng Majara has warned government to ensure a...

  Mountainous fish farm links Lesotho with Japanese chefs TOKYO-The flashing neon advertising signs and crowded crosswalks of Tokyo may not resemble the slow suburban...

  ‘Mantoetse Maama THIRTY-EIGHT-YEAR-OLD Lehlohonolo Matsoai looks pensive as he recalls his “darkest days yet” while working in the jungles of Limpopo Province in South...

  Roderick Macleod IF you were thinking of an ideal location on which to base a commercial fish farm, you wouldn’t necessarily think of the...

  Bongiwe Zihlangu The Basotho National Party (BNP), a junior partner in Prime Minister Thomas Thabane’s coalition government, says it has made enough inroads to...

  SEMONKONG – Every school-day, seven-year-old Mpho Mohau and her young brother, wake up early in the morning to prepare for the difficult journey to...

Lesotho’s politicians have shown themselves to be capable of governing for the common good in the past. A return to this spirit is crucial now...

  Mamothe and Phano Mohapi living their dream 20 years after venturing into the country’s hospitality sector Tsitsi Matope Ha-Molengoane is known for its wild...

By Tsitsi Matope MOKHOTLONG — High in the chilly and misty mountains of Mokhotlong are the stone-built, beautifully-thatched homesteads owned by a resilient people now...

  The enchanting story of Ha-Baroana Caves and the singing Liphiring river  Tsitsi Matope The dry and golden maizefields of Ha-Matela village in Nazareth tell...

Tsitsi Matope TEBOHO Mahase and his wife, Tlalane, could this week not believe Lakeside Hotel is the same establishment they stayed in two years ago...

  …as M25 million project is launched in Maseru Tsitsi Matope A death trap. That was how ‘Mathatohatsi Monyatsi this week described her household toilet...

Tsitsi Matope IF the water-sprinklers could talk, they would complain of how they are made to sprinkle the evergreen lawns in some of Maseru’s leafy...