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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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