Category : Local News

MASERU — Thakane Matsoai says she is still traumatised two weeks after armed robbers threatened to shoot her during a robbery at her sand distributing...

MOKHOTLONG — A 27-year-old man was on Saturday found dead near a cliff in Ntsiking in Mokhotlong. Rethabile Motokoa’s body was found naked below the...

MASERU — In Moruthane village there is a little hut that is falling apart. The roof looks like it’s about to curve in. The walls...

MASERU — A former captain alleged to have been involved in the 2007 political disturbances has spoken out about his brutal torture at the hands...

MASERU — Police  Commissioner  ‘Malejaka Letooane escaped jail last week after Chief Justice Mahapela Lehohla granted her the right to appeal at the High Court....

MORIJA — A mining company based in Morija has accused the leader of a local labour union of trying to push it to violate the...

“It all began on June 14 2007. The LDF Commander had called a meeting strictly attended by officers whose agenda was unknown until it started....

MASERU — The case in which a former police officer is suing the police commissioner for alleged torture suffered at the hands of fellow officers...

NUL stirs into action to slow spread of HIV among students MASERU — When Lebo (not his real name) enrolled for a course at the...

  MASERU — Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili (pictured) says he has little time remaining in power as the leader of the government and the ruling...

MASERU — Three money lending companies being sued for overcharging on interest say they are entitled to charge extra fees over the stipulated 25 percent...

MASERU — A man from Sehlabeng yesterday committed suicide by shooting himself in the head in an attempt to escape arrest after he allegedly robbed...

MASERU — A 27-year-old police officer, Lesia Rakhoba, will serve the next 20 years in jail after he was convicted of fatally shooting his father...

  MASERU — Villagers in Makhoakhoeng in Butha-Buthe, about 60km north of the capital Maseru, are worried. Since June at least three young men have...

MASERU — The suspended deputy police commissioner, Motsotuoa Ntaote, has filed a court application to compel commissioner ‘Malejaka Letooane to re-instate him after he was...

MASERU — A taxi driver died while 28 people were badly injured after two mini-buses collided head-on in Nazareth last Saturday. The deceased was identified...

MASERU — The Lesotho High Court on Tuesday blocked efforts by Lesotho Defence Force (LDF) Commander Thuso Motanyane to evict two soldiers accused of high...

MASERU — Bantu maintained a healthy lead in the latest voting for the 2009 Vodacom Soccer Spectacular tournament this week. The Mafeteng outfit have increased...

MASERU — Police Commissioner Malejaka Letooane this week continued her battle to reverse a jail sentence slapped on her for contempt of court three weeks...

MASERU — Textile factory workers have requested parliament to urgently intervene and help improve their miserable working conditions and meagre wages.  Workers from five textile...

MASERU — A 27-year-old man, Matsoso Lieta, begged for mercy in court last Thursday saying he raped an 80-year-old woman after he had been overcome...

MASERU –– The police on Sunday stormed the home of an opposition legislator Molobeli Soulo  allegedly looking for arms, the Lesotho Times has learnt. Soulo...

MASERU ––  When ‘Makamohelo Tsietsi bid farewell to her son last Tuesday morning she did not know that by evening he would be lying unconscious...

MOHALE’S HOEK — All Basotho Convention (ABC) leader, Thomas Thabane, last Sunday appealed to church leaders mediating in the proportional representation seats issue to be...

MASERU — A 70-year-old British national, James Charles Thompson, was found dead in his house in Maseru West last Wednesday. A neighbour who spoke to...

MASERU — The bodies of two Mozambicans who died during a botched attack at Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili’s residence in Maseru last April were repatriated...

MASERU –– A strike called by workers at Lets’eng Diamond Mine collapsed on Monday after heavily armed soldiers stormed the mine. The workers are employed...

MASERU –– The editor-in-chief of the Monitor newspaper, Dr Rakoro Phororo, has died. Phororo died last Thursday during a private visit to London, England. He...

MASERU –– Libe Moremoholo was last Saturday overwhelmingly elected youth president of the main opposition All Basotho Convention (ABC) party. Moremoholo, 33, beat ABC youth...

MASERU –– The case in which Police Commissioner ‘Malejaka Letooane is asking the court to set aside or review her conviction on a charge of...