MASERU — Three soldiers were on Tuesday locked behind prison bars after the High Court found them guilty of killing a police woman during the 1998 political disturbances. Thapelo Ntaopane, Monyane Mokoatsi and Bulare Moiloa, were among a group of soldiers who went to Mafeteng police station in search of firearms and ammunition after the […]
MASERU — Professor Kopano Makoa is considered the Basotho National Party (BNP) leader-in-waiting. A strong faction in the party believes he is the right man to replace Major General Metsing Lekhanya who they accuse of presiding over the BNP’s collapse. Under Lekhanya, the faction says, the BNP has lost touch with the people and its […]
MASERU — An outbreak of measles has hit schools in Maseru. Two students from Motimposo Primary School reportedly died of measles after the disease hit the school in early March. The first victim, a boy aged 7, died on March 6. Five days later the disease claimed another victim, this time an 8-year-old girl. Both […]
MASERU — Six former members of the executive committee of the Lesotho People’s Congress (LPC) re-joined the ruling Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) party yesterday, nine years after leaving the organisation. They defected together with 100 LPC supporters. The six were once members of the LPC executive committee. They were led by the former LPC […]
MASERU — A former MP who served as the only opposition legislator between 1993 and 1998 is demanding a government pension equivalent to that of the opposition leader of the National Assembly. Bofihla Nkuebe quit the then ruling Basutoland Congress Party (BCP) in 1993 to become the only opposition member in parliament under his Sefate […]
MASERU — A bread van belonging to Astoria Bakery was on Sunday morning hijacked by five armed men in Sefikeng. Police said the armed robbers shot the driver on the hand before fleeing away with M1 900 in cash and the van. Police spokesperson Masupha Masupha said the robbers blocked the vehicle when it was […]
MASERU — Public Eye columnist, Tukula Makhakhe, who is facing two counts of armed robbery, was on Monday granted M1 400 bail by the High Court. Makhakhe, who is denying the charges, is being charged together with two other men, Teboho Makobane and Karabo Thulo. Makhakhe and Makobane were each granted bail of M1 400 […]
MASERU — Two men appeared in the Maseru Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday on a charge of armed robbery. Monyane Molibeli, 31, and Phafa Rafats’e, 25, were charged for allegedly robbing Lipene Lejakane of M40 000 in cash, four cell phones and a laptop. The court heard that Molibeli and Rafats’e stormed Lejakane’s home in Ha-Thetsane […]
MASERU — Four men from Majaheng Mapoteng in Berea were on Monday found guilty of brutally killing Sekoche Mphaka over suspected stock theft. High Court judge Lisebo Chaka-Makhooane found the four — Moeketsi Molise, Moeketsi Lesooana, Mari Lesooana and Tankiso Cheli — guilty of killing Mphaka on February 1 2000. The court heard that the […]
MASERU — A columnist for Public Eye newspaper, Tukula Makhakhe, appeared in the Maseru Magistrate’s Court yesterday facing charges of armed robbery. Makhakhe, 34, who was fired as the private secretary to Trade, Industry and Marketing Minister Popane Lebesa last Wednesday, is being charged together with two other men, Teboho Makobane, 26, and Karabo Thulo, […]
MASERU — “I want to know when the leader, Mr Metsing Lekhanya, will step down and give others a chance to lead.” Those words could have been spoken by any one at the conference but coming from Lesaoana Kamolae, chairman from Lekhanya’s Mantsonyane constituency, they carried a different meaning. True, Lekhanya had walked into hostile […]
MASERU — The Basotho National Party (BNP) annual conference over the weekend was supposed to be Major General Metsing Lekhanya’s Waterloo. It was here, at the three-day conference that started last Friday and ended on Sunday, that Lekhanya was supposed to meet his downfall. His 11-year grip on the BNP was supposed to end with […]
MASERU – A soldier who was in the guardroom at the gate of the State House has described how the assailants who attacked the house on April 22 last year ambushed him after giving him the impression that they were part of the Lesotho Defence Force because of their armoured vehicle. Four of the attackers […]
MASERU — Lawyers involved in a money lending court battle on Monday agreed to temporarily suspend the hearing of a case in which 1 273 civil servants are suing B-Blue Financial Services for unlawful interest charges. The civil servants lodged a court case two weeks ago asking the High Court to declare the loan contracts […]
MASERU — Macaefa Billy’s court battles are far from over. Billy was last May acquitted by the High Court on a charge of sedition. High Court Judge Thamsanqa Nomncongo ruled that the crown had failed to prove the charges levelled against the opposition politician. But the prosecution then appealed against Justice Nomncongo’s judgment arguing that […]
MASERU — Students at the National Health Training College in Maseru are still in shock after one of their colleagues was allegedly fatally stabbed by her boyfriend on Saturday morning. According to a police report, the 28-year-old man who lives in Maseru allegedly fatally stabbed his girlfriend because he suspected she was having an affair […]
MASERU — Telecommunications giant, Econet-Telecom Lesotho (ETL), says it has moved its fixed line services to a new network called the Next Generation Network in a move that will drastically improve communication services around the country. ETL chief executive officer, Elvis Gwanzura, told a press briefing yesterday that the migration exercise which began in February […]
MASERU — Police in Mohale’s Hoek are investigating a police officer who was caught red-handed with three bags of dagga at his home on Sunday morning. Police spokesperson Masupha Masupha said the police found the bags during a search after one bag of dagga was discovered missing from the police station’s exhibits room on Sunday […]
MASERU — Communications minister and government spokesperson Mothetjoa Metsing was yesterday under pressure to accept the SADC envoy Sir Ketumile Masire and legal experts’ reports which said the allocation of compensatory parliamentary seats was wrong, the Lesotho Times can reveal. Sources said Metsing had to request the mediator, Bishop Phillip Mokuku, to adjourn the meeting […]
BLOEMFONTEIN — A Mosotho student at the Central University of Technology (CUT) is battling for his life at the Universitas Private Hospital in Bloemfontein after he was brutally stabbed by a mob following a scuffle at a bar near his hostel. The student whose name cannot be revealed because his parents are yet to be […]
MASERU — A Mohale man is suing the Lesotho Highlands Development Authority (LHDA) for failing to pay his full claim for land that he lost in the building of Mohale Dam about 10 years ago. Lejang Leteba approached the High Court after he received M256 000 from the LHDA as a lump sum in 2005 […]
MASERU — Chief Napo Matsoso of Qoaling Ha-Besele has been sucked into a bitter wrangle in which one of his male subjects is fighting his nieces over an estate. Chief Matsoso is accused of ganging up with some of his villagers to bar High Court sheriffs from evicting two orphans after their uncle, Foro Letele, […]
MASERU – A 26-year-old man from Ha-Molungoa in Maseru appeared in the Maseru Magistrate’s Court on Monday charged with rape. Monyane Rasekoai pleaded not guilty to the charge. The court however heard that Rasekoai had first demanded food from his victim before allegedly raping her at gunpoint. Sporting a bald head, a black tracksuit and […]
MASERU — Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili came under fierce attack on Friday for his government’s failure to implement a law that requires public officers to declare their assets. The leader of the opposition Popular Front for Democracy (PFD), Lekhetho Rakuoane, asked Mosisili why the government had failed to force public office holders to declare their […]
MASERU — A former senior executive of the opposition Basotho National Party (BNP) has accused the party leader Metsing Lekhanya (pictured below) of turning the party’s disciplinary hearings into “something like military tribunals” meant to deal with internal opponents and dissenting voices. Former BNP deputy secretary-general, Mothobi Moholi, who was expelled from the party in […]
MASERU — The government in conjunction with the Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) is planning to set up a small claims court as part of its legal reform project. Chief Justice Mahapela Lehohla told a media briefing that there are plans to set up a small claims court to deal specifically with light disputes. But he […]
MASERU — Opposition MPs walked out of parliament for the second time on Monday in protest against the tabling of the controversial Land Bill 2009. The walk-out however triggered a fierce response by MPs from the ruling Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) party and its political ally the National Independent Party (NIP). The opposition lawmakers […]
MASERU — The High Court will on April 7 deliver judgment in a murder case which had become a trial-within-a-trial after suspects claimed they were tortured while in police custody. Thabiso Letsie, 42, Toka Nkaka, 31, and Hlomelang Lebabo, now late, are being accused of murdering Utloang Moholisa sometime in August 2004. The police found […]
MASERU — The Methodist Church of Southern Africa (MCSA) says Reverend Daniel Rantle, the man who claims to be the head of the Methodist Church in Lesotho, is a renegade who was expelled from the church for misconduct in 2004. Speaking at a press conference yesterday a representative of the MCSA which claims to have […]
MASERU — Political parties are scheduled to meet again tomorrow as the search for a solution to the country’s bitter electoral dispute continues, the Lesotho Times has learnt. The parties met again yesterday at United Nations House in Maseru to discuss the way forward following recommendations for fresh talks to break the deadlock after the […]
