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Out-of-shape referees get yellow card
MASERU — Lesotho’s match officials have been ordered to shape up or ship out. Starting next season the country’s referees will be graded according to their performance. This was…
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Mosothoane: end of an era
MASERU — Despite being born in Botswana, it was always written in Leribe’s blue stars that Kabelo Mosothoane would one day don Linare’s famous green and white jersey.
It wasn’t just…
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Surprise twist
State says bandits shot and killed their colleagues
MASERU – Suspects in the April 22 attack on the State House and an attempt on Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili’s life , have been…
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Mob kills man accused of raping dog
MASERU — A 22-year-old man from Roma was beaten to death by angry villagers who accused him of raping a dog and assaulting two people on Monday last week.
Eyewitnesses said…
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Bid to extradite Mashai bungled
MASERU — The government this week failed to launch an application in a South African court to extradite Makotoko Lerotholi to face charges of armed robbery, abduction and murder.…
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New Sunday paper coming
MASERU — Africa Media Holdings (AMH), publishers of the Lesotho Times, have announced the launch of a new weekly paper to be published every Sunday.
The Sunday Express, the country’s…
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Masire jets in
MASERU – Former president of Botswana Sir Ketumile Masire arrived in Lesotho yesterday to resume talks between the government and opposition parties over the 2007 election dispute.…
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Police officer sues boss, AG for M3.6m
MASERU — A police officer is suing the commissioner of police and the attorney general for M3.6 million as compensation for the alleged assault that he suffered at the hands of fellow…
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Brothers jailed for raping niece
MOKHOTLONG — Two brothers were last Friday jailed for 10 years each without an option of a fine for raping their 12-year-old niece.
The minor fell pregnant and dropped out of school…
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Minister defends new financial programme
MASERU — The Minister of Finance, Timothy Thahane, has blamed the teething problems of the government’s new financial management system on the people whom he says are still to fully…
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Thaba-Tseka businessmen cry foul over contracts allocation
MASERU — The Thaba-Tseka business community is up in arms against the district administrator over allocation of contracts to traders from other districts.
The business people marched…
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Mosisili using army to bully people, says ABC leader
ROTHE – All Basotho Convention (ABC) leader Thomas Thabane has accused the government of using the military to “intimidate people”.
Speaking at a rally in Rothe on Sunday, Thabane…
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New financial system should not be allowed to collapse
AS I SEE IT
POOR service delivery has always been an issue that has haunted the government of Lesotho for years.
Suppliers have complained bitterly that they are paid late.
Some…
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Big battle to let go
Steaming It Off
A FRIEND of mine recently read to me one of her latest beautiful pieces that explored the complex phenomenon of “letting go”.
Well, we need to first face the fact…
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Heart failure
Doctor’s Corner
FOR the past three weeks we have been looking at breast issues. In the last installation we particularly explored breast cancer as a topic, specifically looking at…
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‘I must hang up now’
MASERU — Former Lesotho international Kabelo Mosothoane is considering hanging his boots.
He is 35.
The veteran Linare striker, one of Lesotho’s first exports to South African…
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Mohapi’s Under-20s in camp
MASERU — The national Under-20 side will begin a two-week camp next Monday.
It will be Motheo Mohapi’s first opportunity in charge after the LDF assistant coach and former Likuena…
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Medal boob mind-boggling
MASERU — When Lioli won the Premier League at the end of May — their first championship in 24 years — they would never have suspected that they would become victims of one of the…
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Lesotho to miss Africa taekwondo tourney
MASERU — Despite football getting most attention, taekwondo has long been Lesotho’s most successful sport.
Unfortunately the sport has gone through a bit of a lull in recent years —…
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Mashai set free
MASERU — Makotoko Lerotholi, who has been in prison in South Africa for the past two months in connection with the April attacks on State House and military barracks, is a free man.…
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SA mines boss sues government for M3bn
MASERU — The Lesotho government is being sued for a staggering M3 billion by a South African businessman for revoking leases of his five diamond mines when it implemented the Lesotho…
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Mosisili thanks LDF for saving his life
MASERU — Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili last weekend publicly thanked members of the Lesotho Defence Force (LDF) for saving his life during attacks at his State House residence on…
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Judgment expected today in M2.8 million fraud case
MASERU — High Court judge Tséliso Monaphathi is today expected to pass final judgment in a case in which a former accountant with the Lesotho Highlands Development Authority (LHDA) is…
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Government saddened by death of Basotho men in mine disaster
MASERU — The director of Poverty Reduction Programme (Prep) Topollo Lephatsóe this week said the government is deeply touched by the death of over 50 Basotho men in the illegal mine…
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‘Idea of radio station was mine’
MASERU — The fight for the control of PC FM has intensified. Last week the Lesotho Times (LT) revealed that Mohau Thakaso who claims to be the major shareholder of the station had…
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NGO wants amnesty for trapped miners
WELKOM — Local non-governmental organisations have appealed to the government of South Africa to declare an amnesty for hundreds of miners still trapped at Eland Shaft in Welkom.
The…
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Health delivery system in intensive care unit
AS I SEE IT
MASERU — I am not a public health expert and I do not have a thorough knowledge of health management systems.
But as a layman I can say with conviction that Lesotho’s…
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LCD youths need political Viagra
NATIONAL AGENDA
WHAT exactly is going on within the ruling Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) youth league?
I raise this question after observing the events within the ruling party…
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Sentebale stands by decision over funding
I WOULD just like to make a final response to Lydia Muso of the Lesotho Child Counselling Unit who wrote last week in your letters page with the headline “The LCCU did not fail to…
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Booties ‘n beaches
BOTTOMS UP WITH BACCHUS
THE first thing that struck me was the order the dude — at least I thought so at the time — placed with the cherubic waitress.
“Sex on the Beach,” he uttered…
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