Dumpsite divides Maputsoe
An obvious health hazard to the town, the Maputsoe dumpsite is, however, also a source of livelihood for many families and its closure could spark...
Category : Features & Analysis
Cancer patients resort to traditional treatment
By Tsitsi Matope MASERU — Some desperate cancer-patients are resorting to the traditional way of treatment due to fear they might not survive the “complex”...
A giant waiting to be awakened
By Tsitsi Matope SETIBING — Livestock-farming in the beautiful mountains of Ha-Chalalisa village in Setibing, has never been this exciting — thanks to the newly...
Directorate digging deep
Tasked with bringing development, sanity on the roads By Tsitsi Matope MASERU — A minibus taxi parks right in the middle of the highway, while...
Call to make tourist sites more accessible
By Tsitsi Matope MASERU — It should take less than one hour to drive from Ramatseliso’s Gate Border Crossing to the Sehlabathebe National Park, but...
Tug of war over Letšeng-la-Letsie
By Tsitsi Matope QUTHING — The green mountains momentarily block the sun as it descends to retire for the night just beyond the Letšeng-la-Letsie wetland...
Delivering amid mountains of challenges
By Tsitsi Matope MASERU — It is 8am and 31-year-old Nthabeleng Ramone is one of the mothers already waiting for services at ‘Mabatho Clinic and...
The curse of motherhood
By Tsitsi Matope MASERU — That many mothers have a chill down their spines each time they imagine what could happen if they decide to...
Labour of life . . . and death
In Lesotho’s most remote areas where gynaecologists and obstetricians are but an alien species, falling pregnant could be as risky as traversing the high country...
Mothers in distress
Women in rural Butha-Buthe struggle to survive childbirth By Tsitsi Matope Butha-Buthe is a district in great need of baby-delivery services in the rural clinics....
A mountain of challenges
Ha-Mokoto Clinic is providing a critical service to impoverished Thaba-Tseka communities, but the delivery is not without its challenges. By Tsitsi Matope THABA-TSEKA – Ha-Mokoto...
Desperate and desolate
The sad tale of Damaseka — a village in Butha-Buthe which gives a clear picture of what it means to live in a ‘hard-to-reach’ area...
The power of fish
When the serious business of fish creates a floating slum By Tsitsi Matope LAGOS – It never runs dry in Makoko—an informal settlement uniquely built...
Daring to re-engineer the health system
The Ministry of Health is set to implement new innovations to turn around the sector By Tsitsi Matope MASERU — It is almost 14 years after...
Haven on earth
If you are seeking a holiday in the sky, look no further than the New Oxbow Lodge — an astounding place, situated in the enchanting...
Bank governor rolls up her sleeves
By Tsitsi Matope MASERU — The Central Bank of Lesotho (CBL) governor, Dr Retšelisitsoe Matlanyane, says the implementation of broad-based strategies aimed at developing the...
Herdboys set to drive tourism initiative
By Tsitsi Matope BUTHA-BUTHE — It is a rugged environment, but one which the elderly Austin Sehloboko has enjoyed his entire life. Sehloboko has grown...
Competitiveness project rolls into second phase
By Tsitsi Matope MASERU — The Private Sector Competitiveness and Economic Diversification Project (PSCP) will enter its second phase next month, following the successful implementation...
Masowe housing project changes the lives of Basotho
By Tsitsi Matope MASERU — The Maseru South West suburb (Masowe) is the latest giant housing project blossoming in the capital and promising to become...
Call for focus to improve town planning and land management
By Tsitsi Matope MASERU — It is every town planner’s dream to apply their skills and ensure the development of well-organised and functional urban or...
New twist to M500m project saga
By Billy Ntaote MASERU — Seventeen subcontractors in a M568 million joint venture originally enlisted to build 101 health centres but which is now under...
Good nutrition key to quality life
By Tsitsi Matope MASERU — Extolling the virtues of good nutrition is at the heart of Dr Mphaka Joane Sankoela Mphaka’s drive as a Herbalife...
Exploring invisible scars of domestic violence
By Tsitsi Matope MASERU — Keneoue Mohale is inconsolable as she narrates how her only 23-year-old daughter was shot several times by her ex-boyfriend in...
Tourism drive targets decision makers
By Tsitsi Matope MASERU — The Lesotho Tourism Development Corporation (LTDC) chief executive officer, Mpaiphele Maqutu said decision-makers are a major target in his organisation’s...
Spotlight on abuse in families
By Mohalenyane Phakela MAFETENG — Sesotho Media and Development trainee Mohapi Moshesha said abuse can lead to the spread of HIV and other sexually transmitted...
When one is neither male nor female
By Tsitsi Matope MASERU — There is no turning back when it comes to defining himself as a man in a woman’s body. The 32-year-old...
Mothers bear brunt of bearing many kids
By Tsitsi Matope ROMA — After giving birth to seven daughters in a two-decade search for a son, 36-year-old ‘Makatiso Sam and her husband from...
Forgotten Tšenola struggles to quench its thirst
By TsitsiMatope MASERU — They say they have not seen any meaningful development in their area of Tšenola Lepereng for close to two decades; they...
She conquered her fears . . . and the world
By Tsitsi Matope HA MASAKALA — The time is just a few minutes before 5pm and workers constructing the magnificent cable bridge in Ha Masakala...
Water crisis deepens
By Tsitsi Matope MASERU-A water crisis is looming countrywide with the capital Maseru left with only a less than a month supply of raw water...