A place to call home at last
. . . Some of the girls need sanitary ware, which the home is struggling to provide By Tsitsi Matope MOTSEKUOA — At last, 13-year-old...
Category : Features & Analysis
Mohasoa rolls up sleeves to prop tourism
By Tsitsi Matope MASERU — One thing that has always fascinated him the most was Lesotho’s many phenomenal tourist attractions. From the snowing and undulating...
‘Chobeliso is the worst betrayal of women’
By Tsitsi Matope MAFETENG — Paile Semoko, 80, has never married and the pain of her spinsterhood is clearly engraved in her clouded eyes....
Beware of unregistered colleges, says council
By Limpho Sello MASERU — The Council on Higher Education (CHE) has warned the public against enrolling with unregistered colleges. In a statement last...
Lesotho scores against Aids
MASERU — A “medical miracle” is taking place in Lesotho. Thousands of HIV positive mothers are giving birth to healthy HIV negative babies. What was...
Graft takes root in public sector
MASERU — Hundreds of government workers celebrated the annual Public Service Day at Setsoto Stadium last week. Held under the theme “Strengthen leadership management for...
The scourge of illegal guns
MASERU — They arrived at Tiping a village in Thaba-Tseka on horseback on Thursday, armed to the teeth. The six men said they were looking...
Fighting from within
MASERU — Tselane, like most other girls her age, was once a strong-willed teenager. She would defiantly stand her ground and say no to premarital...
Crackdown on illegal clinics looms
MASERU — Three women sit outside a run-down “surgery” in Thibella, a poor working-class suburb notorious for running illegal shebeens, awaiting their turn to get...
Aids message hits brickwall
MASERU — Bora, a strong, athletic taxi driver in his late 30s, is not shy to talk about his sexual exploits. He says with a...
The curse of Mohale Dam
MOHALE — When news trickled in that the government was going to build a new multibillion-dollar dam in Mohale, the people were thrilled. Finally, they...
Tap water gives new life to villagers
MAFETENG — While some rural parts of the country are in the grip of hunger some villagers in Ha-Paki and Ha-Shale in Mafeteng have a...
World Cup: Will Lesotho gain?
MASERU — In exactly 147 days the World Cup football tournament will burst into life in neighbouring South Africa. The World Cup, arguably the biggest...
Aids literacy low among youth
THABA-TSEKA — At 26 years, Sechaba Mohlohlo, was disturbingly ignorant about the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). Mohlohlo dismissed out of hand any suggestion HIV was...
Global recession begins to bite
MASERU — Her demise started early last year when she noticed that her profits were shrinking. For the first time this clothing boutique that Ntaoleng...
Facing an unseen enemy
THABA-TSEKA — His hair is fluffy and his lips are blistered. He leans heavily on his walking stick for support. His clothes — a pair...
Livestock owners live in terror
NAZARETH — Once a well-known cattle breeder, 72-year-old Morena-Kemang Nkhahle now only has his fingers to count. Scores of Nkhahle’s cattle and sheep have been...
Hell on earth for factory workers
MASERU — When Nthato Ralele found a job as a tailor she thought her worries were finally over. But four years down the line, Ralele...
Baby dumping on the rise
MASERU — Twenty-two-year-old Nthabiseng (not her real name) is a haunted woman. Earlier this month Nthabiseng was arrested and sentenced to two months in prison...
Unemployment’s silent victims
MASERU — The hot spring sun is blazing. A group of young kids in Ha-Tsolo are busy with song and play. They have turned the...
Rape victims suffer in silence
By Ntsebeng Motsoeli MASERU — ‘Meisi (not her real name) of Ha-Toloane could not stop blaming herself for the rape of her 15-year-old daughter. She...
DOCTOR’S CORNER: Dealing with liver diseases
Alcoholic Liver Disease ALCOHOLIC liver disease is damage to the liver that results from excessive drinking of alcohol. It is a common but preventable health...
Defection gives ABC chance for introspection
TUESDAY’S dramatic events in parliament have deeper implications for democracy in Lesotho. As reported in our lead story All Basotho Convention (ABC) legislator, Nkhets’e Monyalotsa,...
Cross-border taxi war foils move
MASERU – The arrangement between the governments of Lesotho and South Africa to allow cross-border taxis to freely operate between their boarders failed to take...
Ex-LRA boss eyes Swaziland post
MASERU – Charles Jenkins, the outgoing commissioner-general of the Lesotho Revenue Authority (LRA), could assume the same title in Swaziland where he attended a job...
I thrived on teamwork, says Jenkins
MASERU – He is a taxman. A bad golfer. A saxophone player. An avid reader. A rock climber. A crossword fanatic. A fisher. He loves...
Time to legalise prostitution
THEY are routinely pilloried as Likuena or crocodiles. They endure daily lives of insults and abuse. They are blamed for every vice in society. The...
STEAMING IT OFF: The enigma of red roses
Jo! Bathong! This past weekend was something else! Something different…ok not really but then… After work Friday, I literally started seeing red! What! For a...
Mosisili's Legacy
WE wish to congratulate the ruling Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) party for holding a successful conference last weekend. With a new revamped leadership the...
Drug abuse rife in Lesotho
BUTHA-BUTHE – Thabiso, 18, takes a deep and long pull from a plastic bottle. He repeats the process again after a breather. After some few...