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MASERU — Two men who are alleged to have been involved in last month’s failed attempt to assassinate Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili appeared in court last week charged with…
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MASERU — A 54-year-old Mafeteng man, Neo Rapitsi, was this week jailed for five years after he was found guilty of culpable homicide. Rapitsi stabbed Motiki Khoasa on the chest killing…
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MASERU — National Security Services (NSS) boss Mohau Thaha says last week’s foiled attempt to assassinate  Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili does not mean his department’s is failing.…
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MASERU — A lawyer representing MKM boss, Simon Thebe-ea-Khale, says the embattled businessman is likely to meet Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili soon to discuss payment to depositors…
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MASERU — The High Court has dismissed an application by the Anglican Church to stop the Lesotho Evangelical Church from building a chapel at the National University of Lesotho (NUL)…
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MASERU — A coalition of civil society groups says it will lobby parliamentarians to pass a bill of rights for the disabled. The civic groups met in Mafeteng last week to launch the…
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MASERU — A serious conflict is brewing between judges and lawyers over a commission of inquiry set up by the Law Society of Lesotho to investigate the crisis in the county’s judiciary…
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JOHANNESBURG — President Kgalema Motlanthe condemned the assassination attempt on Lesotho Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili on Wednesday. Mosisili survived an attempt on his life after…
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MASERU — There is a fierce battle for the control of the women’s league of the All Basotho Convention (ABC) party ahead of its elective conference next month. The struggle for power is…
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MASERU — There is a fierce battle for the control of the women’s league of the All Basotho Convention (ABC) party ahead of its elective conference next month. The battle for power is…
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MASERU — The Lesotho Revenue Authority’s Customs and Excise Division has launched a ‘time release study’ to improve the time it takes to clear goods and people at the country’s border…
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MASERU — The Court of Appeal of Lesotho has dismissed with costs an appeal against a High Court judgment that awarded damages to a woman whose leg was amputated 10 years ago. ‘Mammutsoe…
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MASERU — A junior police officer’s appeal against conviction on sedition charges has failed after the Court of Appeal dismissed his plea. Mojalefa Phumane, together with 32 other…
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MASERU — When the High Court slapped him with eight years in jail for murder, Serame Linake, thought the sentence was harsh. He appealed to the Court of Appeal. Last Thursday, Linake…
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MAFETENG — The search is still on for three bodies of children who drowned after a car accident in Mafeteng in February. Eleven people died in the accident after their double-cab…
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MASERU — The Lesotho Revenue Authority surpassed the government’s set targets for tax collection for the just ended financial year. The LRA exceeded the targets for both Income Tax…
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BUTHA-BUTHE — A 21-year-old man from Sekubu in Butha-Buthe was last week arrested for stabbing and killing his 26-year-old brother, Lebona Letsatsi. The police public relations officer,…
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MASERU — Butha-Buthe businessman, Thabang Kholumo, was last weekend elected the vice-president of the opposition Popular Front for Democracy (PFD) party. Kholumo was elected to the post…
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MASERU — Sentebale, a charity set up by Britain’s Prince Harry in Lesotho has seen dramatic fall in donations since last year.  Donations to the charity organisation dropped by 84…
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MASERU — A Lesotho Defence Force (LDF) officer last week told the High Court that members of the army pulled his testicles and beat him up so badly that he fainted during an…
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MASERU — A small group of disgruntled Basotho National Party (BNP) supporters protested at the party’s annual general conference held last Saturday demanding the ouster of party leader…
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MASERU — The Popular Front for Democracy (PFD) party will elect a new leadership at a three-day bi-annual conference that will start in Maseru tomorrow. PFD leader Lekhetho Rakuoane…
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MASERU — The Lesotho Mounted Police Service (LMPS) confiscated 877 bags of dagga during a nationwide operation last week. During the operation 776 bags of dagga were found in Berea…
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MASERU – A 34-year-old Maseru man was on Monday sentenced to five years in prison or pay a fine of M5 000 for illegally possessing a firearm. Seabata Nthethe was arrested last Friday…
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BEREA – Seven pupils from St Agnes High School were seriously injured when the taxi they were travelling in was involved in an accident last Saturday. The pupils were coming from a…
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THABA-TSEKA — Two women from Thaba-Tseka were on Monday sentenced to three months in jail or pay a fine of M300 after they were convicted of carrying out an illegal abortion. The…
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THABA-TSEKA — Two men from Ha Moqekela in Thaba-Tseka, Rejeleng Khalatha, 31, and Molantoa Molantoa, 44, were on Tuesday sentenced to one-year in prison or pay a fine of M1 000 each…
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PART ONE : ABC Leader says rebel MPs ignorant ALL is not well in the All Basotho Convention (ABC) party. Over the past six months the party has lost three MPs.The MP for Maputsoe,…
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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,…
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MASERU – A Maseru man, Mohau Matlaeea, was this week slapped with a five-year jail term or a fine of M5 000 for assaulting his wife. Half the sentence was suspended for two years on…
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