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MASERU — LDF assistant coach Motheo Mohapi has launched a scathing attack against the Premier League’s fixtures last weekend. The army side had to play two games last weekend, travelling to Roma to face Rovers on Saturday before hosting fourth-placed Matlama on Sunday. “We played the fixture against Matlama when the others (Lioli and LCS) […]

MASERU — Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili (pictured) yesterday survived an attempt on his life by a group of heavily armed men believed to have been on a mission to overthrow his government. The Lesotho Mounted Police Service last night confirmed that four of the suspected mercenaries had been killed in an operation launched by the […]

MASERU — About 230 Basotho migrant mine workers at Bambanani Gold Mine in Welkom, South Africa, have been dismissed following a work-related dispute. An official at the Workers Union of South Africa (WUSA) told the Lesotho Times this week that the workers were sent packing for allegedly failing to turn up for work. The official […]

MASERU — Former Maseru city council mayor, ‘Malijane Morahanye, is planning to sue the city council for unlawful dismissal, the Lesotho Times has learnt. Morahanye was ousted as mayor last February for bringing the reputation of the council into disrepute. The council accused Morahanye of discussing the council’s financial issues in the media after she […]

MASERU — A former soldier with the Lesotho Defence Force (LDF), Motloang Molapo, allegedly shot and killed his wife at Good Times Cafe last Saturday in what police suspect was a love triangle. Molapo shot and killed ‘Masechocha Thamae, 28, in the stomach at point blank after accusing her of having an extra-marital affair with […]

MASERU — A serious conflict is brewing between judges and lawyers over a commission of inquiry set up by the Law Society of Lesotho to investigate the crisis in the county’s judiciary sector. The Law Society set up the commission last year to investigate “any possible corrupt, unprofessional, unethical and unjudicial practices that may have […]

JOHANNESBURG — President Kgalema Motlanthe condemned the assassination attempt on Lesotho Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili on Wednesday. Mosisili survived an attempt on his life after gunmen opened fire at his home in the capital Maseru. “SADC (Southern African Development Community) condemns without equivocation the attempted assassination of the democratically elected Prime Minister of Lesotho Pakalitha […]

MASERU — There is a fierce battle for the control of the women’s league of the All Basotho Convention (ABC) party ahead of its elective conference next month. The struggle for power is between the former president of the league Mookho Mathibeli and the current treasurer ‘Mapheello Tsuluba. Mathibeli was suspended from her position last […]

MASERU — There is a fierce battle for the control of the women’s league of the All Basotho Convention (ABC) party ahead of its elective conference next month. The battle for power is between the former president of the league Mookho Mathibeli and the current treasurer, ‘Mapheello Tsuluba. Mathibeli was expelled from the party last […]

MASERU — The Lesotho Revenue Authority’s Customs and Excise Division has launched a ‘time release study’ to improve the time it takes to clear goods and people at the country’s border posts. The study which began on Monday will end next Thursday, according to a press statement from the LRA. The LRA said the programme […]

VERY often I hear some people say “there is no justice in law” in this country and I am tempted to entirely agree with them. All too often we have seen the guilty in serious crimes walking away free from their malpractices because of incompetence by investigating or judicial authorities while the small fish are […]

The Doctor’s Corner   IN the last three weeks we have been focusing on issues that affect women. Specifically, we have been focusing on “bleeding between menstrual periods”, the most common causes of abnormal vaginal bleeding including fibroids and cancer of the womb among others. These are huge topics and we will continue to look […]

STEAMING IT OFF “KARMA!  What goes around comes back around!” Those are my favourite words to “curse” a person with when they have done me wrong — especially when I get the urge to do something drastic, which will have a lasting effect. But sometimes when you do things all in the name of revenge, […]

MASERU — If Sekamaneng Young Stars fail to win this weekend they will be relegated from the Premier League. That’s the long and short of it. With five games to go this season, Young Stars find themselves bottom of the league, effectively 12 points from safety. It means if Young Stars don’t beat title-chasing Lioli […]

MASERU — The national Under-15 team leave the country today for a five-nation tournament in Botswana this weekend. The tournament begins tomorrow and ends on Sunday. The team will return home on Monday. Lesotho’s 18-man squad was selected during an inter-district tournament held during the Easter holiday. The countries that have confirmed their participation in […]

MASERU — Manonyane FC has been resurrected from the dead after its controversial collapse in 1999. The Roma community plans to have Manonyane in the Premier League again, but might start by buying a first division franchise next season. Manonyane failed to take their place in the top-flight league in 1999 following a serious dispute […]

MASERU — While Angel Cabrera was gleefully adorning himself with “The Green Jacket” at the US Masters last week, the greens of the Chapman Golf Club in Harare, Zimbabwe, were hosting greenhorns hoping to one day emulate the Argentine’s feats. But while southern Africa’s prospects were competing at the 2009 Zone VI International Amateur Golf […]

MASERU — It could be the end of the road for MKM after the Court of Appeal upheld an earlier High Court ruling which said the company was operating illegally. MKM had appealed against a High Court judgment that said the company was operating banking and insurance businesses without licenses from the central bank. In […]

MASERU — Investors in the troubled Millennium Goal Society are likely to get a portion of the money they invested in the company next month. The percentage that each depositor will get will be decided after the company has liquidated some of the investments and assets that it acquired using the money from the investors. […]

MASERU — The Court of Appeal of Lesotho has dismissed with costs an appeal against a High Court judgment that awarded damages to a woman whose leg was amputated 10 years ago. ‘Mammutsoe Ntseso’s leg was amputated at Universitas Hospital in Bloemfontein, South Africa in June 1999. Ntseso, 37, claimed the amputation became necessary as […]

MASERU — A junior police officer’s appeal against conviction on sedition charges has failed after the Court of Appeal dismissed his plea. Mojalefa Phumane, together with 32 other junior police officers, was accused of engaging in mutinous acts during a police general strike in 1997. Phumane was charged with high treason or alternatively sedition under […]

MASERU — When the High Court slapped him with eight years in jail for murder, Serame Linake, thought the sentence was harsh. He appealed to the Court of Appeal. Last Thursday, Linake had a big shock.  The court added two more years on his jail sentence. Linake was last year convicted and jailed for killing […]

MAFETENG — The search is still on for three bodies of children who drowned after a car accident in Mafeteng in February. Eleven people died in the accident after their double-cab vehicle was swept by floods in Ha-Khoete in February. Eight of the bodies were discovered within days of the accident but three bodies were […]