ROMA — A foetus was found dumped in a dustbin at the female residence at the National University of Lesotho (NUL) on Monday. Police spokesman Masupha Masupha confirmed the incident. He said the almost six month foetus was found by one the cleaners during her cleaning rounds. “The cleaner informed us by phone and we […]
MASERU — A man from Semonkong is suing the police for M58 000 after his car was allegedly stripped of components while it was in police custody. Lekhotla Sekoala, 60, said the components of his Toyota 4×4 were stolen and damaged after it was impounded by the police. He alleges that the parts were stolen […]
MASERU — Basotho National Party (BNP) members who were fired from the party last week have said their expulsion was null and void insisting they were still members of the party despite the national executive committee’s decision. Speaking at a press conference on Tuesday the seven members alleged that their expulsion was part of the […]
MASERU — Basotho National Party (BNP) leader Metsing Lekhanya suggested as far back as 2007 that Professor Kopano Makoa could succeed him, an expelled party official has said. Mothobi Moholi who was the BNP’s deputy secretary general from 2005 to 2007 and was part of the group of seven party members who were expelled last […]
MASERU — A former police superintendent escaped jail yesterday after he was slapped with a suspended term for soliciting a M1 000 bribe. Keletso Ramoeletsi, 56, was arrested and charged with soliciting a bribe from one Mats’eliso Sets’abi in 2006 following a police trap. Sets’abi was wanted by the police in connection with the theft […]
MASERU — A senior army officer who was on duty on the night of the April 22 attacks on Makoanyane military base and the prime minister’s residence has refused to appear before the commission of inquiry set up to investigate the attacks. Sergeant Motsoto was the senior officer on duty and was in charge of […]
MASERU — The Ministry of Education and Training will release the 2009 Cambridge Overseas School Certificate (COSC) results today. Acting education minister Ralechate ‘Mokose told a press conference yesterday that candidates would start getting their results at their respective centres this morning. ‘Mokose said the 2009 pass rate was 0.6 percent lower than last year. […]
MASERU — Breakaway political party, Senkatana, will hold its first general conference to elect a substantive leadership in Maseru next Friday. Senkatana broke away from the main opposition All Basotho Convention (ABC) party led by Thomas Thabane in December 2008. The party’s leader, Lehlohonolo Ts’ehlana, was kicked out of the ABC for alleged insubordination after […]
MASERU — A faction in the Basotho National Party (BNP) says it wants prominent political scholar Professor Kopano Makoa to challenge party leader Major General Metsing Lekhanya for leadership at the party’s annual general conference this year. Moeketsi Hanyane, the former BNP youth leader and one of the prominent people behind the anti-Lekhanya faction, said […]
MASERU — A petrol attendant at Excel Filling station along Pope John Paul II Road in Maseru must have thought he had hit a jackpot when he broke into his employer’s office and stole cash and cheques. Thabiso Mabote, 25, had only been employed at the station for three months when he connived with two […]
MASERU — When a woman is chased and stabbed with a knife, she cannot consent to sex even if she had undressed herself. This was the message that Maseru magistrate, Masupha Kao, delivered as he passed judgment on a 22-year-old man from Ha-Tikoe who was charged with rape. Ngaka Malingoane was yesterday found guilty of […]
MASERU — Civil servants on Monday ordered a local commercial bank, Lesotho Standard Bank, to stop deducting money from their salaries on behalf of three money lending institutions, the Lesotho Times has learnt. A delegation of the civil servants approached the bank to complain about the continuing deductions from their salaries despite a High Court […]
MASERU — The Law Society of Lesotho has filed a notice at the High Court to challenge the appointment of Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Leaba Thetsane, as the King’s Counsel. The King’s Counsel is an honour bestowed on individuals who would have shown outstanding leadership in the legal profession. The Law Society normally recommends […]
MASERU — The 2009 Junior Certificate (JC) results are out. The Minister of Education and Training, Dr ‘Mphono Khaketla, announced at a press conference held in Maseru yesterday that the results would be released to the public today. Dr Khaketla also said six schools would not get their results because of some irregularities that occurred […]
MASERU — A High Court judge has recused himself from a case involving People’s Choice FM’s top management, saying he personally knew both the applicant and respondent. Justice Semapo Peete recused himself on Christmas Eve saying he knew PC FM executive chairman, Mohau Thakaso, and one of the directors, Hubbard Monaheng, who are at each […]
MAFETENG — Popular famo artist, Tumelo Shea, 33, and his wife, Mmakananelo, 30, were murdered in their home in Makeneng in Mafeteng last weekend. The two were shot dead by unknown assailants at around 10pm last Saturday. They died of their wounds shortly afterwards, according to the police. The Mafeteng district police commander, Thabo Lebasa, […]
MASERU — A sociology lecturer at the National University of Lesotho (NUL), Dr ‘Makhotsang Phokojoe, has blamed a “weak judiciary” for the increasing cases of crime in Lesotho. In an interview with the Lesotho Times on Tuesday, Phokojoe said the increasing cases of murder have left people living in abject fear. “Crime and murder cases […]
LERIBE — A 26-year-old woman from Pitseng in Leribe was stabbed to death last Friday after she allegedly rejected a man’s love proposal. Police spokesman Pheello Mphana said the deceased, ‘Mapaballo Rapoeea, was stabbed all over her body after a party on New Year’s Day. Mphana said the 28-year-old suspect who is in police custody […]
MASERU — Cabinet has still not approved the draft media policy for Lesotho four months after the policy was unveiled to the media. Communications Minister Mothetjoa Metsing told a media policy workshop last August that the policy would be approved by the government by September. The long awaited media policy seeks to regulate the broadcasting, […]
MASERU — A 29-year-old man from Mphaki in Quthing who is charged with the theft of motor vehicle parts was on Tuesday denied bail by the Maseru Magistrate’s court. Khutlang Pule was arrested last November in Khubetsoana but escaped from police custody during the same month. The police allege Pule fled to his home in […]
MASERU — The commander of the Lesotho Defence Force (LDF) Major General Thuso Motanyane has said the April 22 attacks on the State House and Mokoanyane Barracks have ruined the army’s reputation. Motanyane was addressing 483 members of the LDF at a parade to review the army’s operations for 2009 and plan for next year. […]
MASERU — It is 10am and the Maseru Bridge is congested; both human and vehicular traffic choke the country’s major border post. On a Wednesday, two days before Christmas, hordes of Basotho are streaming into the country from South Africa. Most have been away for a long time and cannot wait to see their families. […]
MASERU — The city was swarming with last-minute shoppers yesterday ahead of the festive holiday. Shop assistants could be seen battling to clear long, winding queues in such chain supermarkets as Shoprite and Pick n Pay, with clothing retailers such as jet, PEP, Dunns, Ackermans and Fashion World also enjoying brisk business. An assistant at […]
MASERU — Two Blue Ribbon employees on Tuesday appeared in the Maseru Magistrate Court facing charges of theft by false pretence. Motheo Mohasisa (44) from Hara Makoro Mapoteng and 33-year-old Mohau Sehloho of Ha-Thetsane are facing charges of defrauding the Lesotho Defence Force and were granted M200 bail each. They pleaded not guilty and will […]
MASERU — The murder trial of a police officer accused of shooting a suspected armed robber 14 years ago, continued in the Lesotho High Court last week. Trooper Mothobi Moholi — who was based at Joel’s Drift Police Post in Butha-Buthe at the time of the murder — was in the dock on Tuesday and […]
MASERU — The Law Society of Lesotho (LSL) wants all lawyers to boycott a former chief justice who has been temporarily re-hired by the state to preside over the trial of a newspaper editor facing contempt of court charges. Retired judge Peter Cullinan, who was Lesotho’s chief justice from 1988 to 1991, is presiding over […]
MASERU — The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) says if the controversial Land Bill is not passed into law it will have to withdraw USUS$20.5 million (about M149.7 million) earmarked for the administration of the land reform process in Lesotho. The MCC, a US government agency, has come under fire from politicians and civic society leaders […]
MAFETENG — The son of a former government minister is embroiled in a bitter dispute with a popular businessman, Ashraf Abubaker, over the ownership of a shopping centre in Mafeteng. Benjamin Maphathe, 61, accuses Abubaker of dispossessing him of Patsa Shopping Complex which he claims he jointly owned with his late father, Thulo Maphathe, a […]
MASERU — A Maseru woman, ‘Malerato Masoabi, was yesterday slapped with a three-year jail sentence for raping her husband. This is the first time that a woman has been convicted of marital rape. The sentence was however suspended for two years. Masoabi, 31, from Ha Lebipi Mothobi in Maseru district, was charged with sexually assaulting […]
MASERU — When it comes to spending university funds the vice-chancellor is an extremely extravagant fellow. That is how an internal audit summed up the spending sprees, unauthorised trips, questionable per diem claims and unauthorised payments that the National University of Lesotho (NUL) vice chancellor, Professor Adelani Ogunrinade, made when he was appointed in December […]
