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MASERU — The Lesotho Revenue Authority surpassed the government’s set targets for tax collection for the just ended financial year. The LRA exceeded the targets for both Income Tax (tax from workers) and Value Added Tax (tax on goods and services) by 26 percent. The government had set a target of M2.012 million but LRA […]

BUTHA-BUTHE — A 21-year-old man from Sekubu in Butha-Buthe was last week arrested for stabbing and killing his 26-year-old brother, Lebona Letsatsi. The police public relations officer, Pheello Mphana told the Lesotho Times that Lephallo Letsatsi intervened to stop his brother from beating up his pregnant wife. “The deceased who was said to be heavily […]

BASOTHO are a sport-loving people who go to great lengths to support their athletes. Sports can unite a people and rally them towards a common cause. The ministry of sports in Lesotho has over the years gone to great lengths to support and develop sport. For instance, the ministry last year began giving allowances to […]

Doctor’s Corner IN the last two articles we discussed metrorrhagia, which is the medical term used to define bleeding between periods for women in the reproductive age group. But as explained in those articles, the subject of metrorrhagia is so broad that we needed to cover it in more than just one instalment. This article […]

Steaming It Off LAST week I brought up the thousand-kilometre journey of single women. Okay, I only mentioned that some women are really single for some reasons that are entirely men’s faults (well, I think). LOL! If you do not know what I’m going on about, I suggest you hunt and thoroughly examine last week’s […]

MASERU — Former Premier League champions Likhopo are facing a serious financial crisis that could force the side to fold. Likhopo owner Bishop Molatoli, who doubles up as the club’s coach, recently revealed he was facing challenges keeping the team in the top-flight league. Molatoli’s admission had seen speculation swelling that Likhopo could be up […]

MASERU — Football can really be a cruel game. Just when Lioli fans were beginning to entertain thoughts of a first league title in 24 years, they have to endure this: a pair of draws that are harder to swallow than a 5-0 loss to Bantu. Perhaps more crucially, Lioli’s mini-crisis has coincided with the […]

MASERU — While Easter is a time for families to enjoy and relax, for others it’s a time when destinies are shaped and dreams crushed in the never-ending labour of a Premier League season. For LDF, Easter was a confirmation of their status as title favourites. After a wobble against Joy last week, the league […]

MASERU — The Lesotho Amateur Athletics Association (LAAA)’s spokesman has warned that athletes are putting their careers at risk by taking part in too many races. Sejanamane Maphathe said poverty and unemployment were forcing local athletes to enter as many races as possible, especially in South Africa, with the aim of winning cash prizes.  There […]

MASERU — It’s always hard to understand when people claim that the thrill of the chase can be more satisfying than leading from the front. For Rovers, after finally being crowned National Basketball League (NBL) champions last weekend, this paradoxical statement might run true. In the last three seasons the National University of Lesotho team […]

MASERU — The Lesotho Amateur Boxing Association (LABA) is hosting a five-day Zone VI boxing tournament that started yesterday and ends tomorrow. The tournament is taking place at the Examination Council of Lesotho premises in Khubetsoana, about 6 km north of the city. The main purpose of the tournament is to prepare the southern Africa […]

MASERU — A Confederation of African Rugby (CAR) delegation is expected in the country to train more than 30 local referees and coaches next weekend. The venue is not yet confirmed, but it will be in Maseru. The workshop comes shortly after the Lesotho Rugby Association (LRA), formed in December 2007, affiliated with CAR. LRA […]

MASERU — Pressure is mounting on Basotho National Party (BNP) leader Metsing Lekhanya (pictured) to step down immediately. A faction in the former ruling party insists that Lekhanya — the former military supremo who took power in a bloodless coup in 1986 — must vacate his post because he “has killed the party”. The faction […]

MASERU — Pressure is mounting on Basotho National Party (BNP) leader Metsing Lekhanya (pictured) to step down immediately. A faction in the former ruling party insists that Lekhanya — the former military supremo who took power in a bloodless coup in 1986 — must vacate his post because he “has killed the party”. The faction […]

MASERU — Pressure is mounting on Basotho National Party (BNP) leader Metsing Lekhanya (pictured) to step down immediately. A faction in the former ruling party insists that Lekhanya — the former military supremo who took power in a bloodless coup in 1986 — must vacate his post because he “has killed the party”. The faction […]

MASERU — Pressure is mounting on Basotho National Party (BNP) leader Metsing Lekhanya (pictured) to step down immediately. A faction in the former ruling party insists that Lekhanya — the former military supremo who took power in a bloodless coup in 1986 — must vacate his post because he “has killed the party”. The faction […]

MASERU — Butha-Buthe businessman, Thabang Kholumo, was last weekend elected the vice-president of the opposition Popular Front for Democracy (PFD) party. Kholumo was elected to the post unopposed at a three-day bi-annual conference that ended last Sunday. Kholumo is a former deputy president of the Lesotho Teachers Trade Unions (LTTU). PFD president, Lekhetho Rakuoane, retained […]

MASERU — Sentebale, a charity set up by Britain’s Prince Harry in Lesotho has seen dramatic fall in donations since last year.  Donations to the charity organisation dropped by 84 percent. Sentebale – launched by the royal in 2006 in memory of his mother Princess Diana – saw donations fall from £1.15 million in 2007 […]

MASERU — A Lesotho Defence Force (LDF) officer last week told the High Court that members of the army pulled his testicles and beat him up so badly that he fainted during an interrogation exercise five years ago. Lieutenant Tlhoriso Letsie is now suing army boss Lieutenant-General Thuso Motanyane for M750 000 for torture and unlawful […]

MASERU — Lesotho’s ailing textile industry has shed 6 000 jobs over the past eight months as the global crisis begins to take its toll on the key sectors of the economy. Textile companies have been cutting jobs to remain viable after orders from the main source markets, especially America, started dipping last year. The […]

MASERU — The Lesotho Revenue Authority (LRA) last Wednesday began implementing new individual tax thresholds for taxpayers for the new fiscal year. In a statement last week the LRA said it was effecting changes in income tax for individual taxpayers and would issue new tax tables for the new fiscal year. The new fiscal year […]

Doctor’s Corner IN last week’s introductory article on metrorrhagia, we defined the term metrorrhagia as profuse bleeding between periods. Metrorrhagia is a common problem affecting up to 20 percent of healthy women in the world. The social, psychological and financial implications of such a problem to women in Lesotho and around the world cannot be […]

Steaming It Off   ACHE! This is getting too much! Serious! I do not understand it and I do not like it! And I know most of you do not like it too! Oh, my bad! I am already going on and on and I have not even told you what is crawling up my […]

MASERU — A week is a long time in football. Trudging off the field after a 3-1 mauling at the hands of Lioli a fortnight ago, defending Premier League champions LCS looked down and out of the title race. Lioli remained on course in their pursuit of run-away leaders LDF — and the army side […]

Matlama…………………(0) 2 Butha-Buthe Roses..…..(0) 0   MASERU — Second-half goals from Mosiuoa Boseka and Hlomelang Theko were enough to earn Matlama an uninspiring 2-0 victory over Butha-Buthe Roses at Pitso Ground last Saturday. The win continued Tse Putsoa’s outstanding home form this year while Roses’ away form remained the complete opposite. Since the turn of […]

MASERU – The Lesotho Football Association (LEFA) has put aside about M50 000 for this Easter’s Under-15 tournament for the southern and northern districts. The money, part of the FIFA Financial Assistance Programme (FAP), covers preparations for the tournament, transportation of players and their meals during the tournament. The tournament starts today and ends tomorrow […]

MASERU — The A Division Buddie Top 8 draw might be affected by the result of a replay between Lifefo and Maduma. The draw, involving the top four teams from the Buddie A Division’s North and South streams, was held at the Bambatha Tsíta Sports Arena on Sunday. Both Lifefo and Maduma were not in […]

Presenters with no degrees sent packing MASERU – Youth radio station Ultimate FM yesterday went off air after sending almost its entire workforce packing over educational qualifications.yesterday seeking legal advice. The state-run broadcaster “indefinitely” suspended services after nine of its 12 presenters were dismissed. Radio Lesotho was instead broadcasting on Ultimate FM’s usual signal platform. […]

MASERU — Auditor-General Lucy Liphafa yesterday released, for the second year running, a damning report on the state of Lesotho’s public accounts.  In a report which covers the 2004/5 and 2005/6 financial years, Liphafa said she had “issued a negative opinion on the state of affairs of the government of Lesotho.” Liphafa said there was […]

MASERU — A small group of disgruntled Basotho National Party (BNP) supporters protested at the party’s annual general conference held last Saturday demanding the ouster of party leader Metsing Lekhanya. The supporters, who numbered about 30, denounced Lekhanya telling him to go back to his rural village in Mantsónyane to look after his livestock. “Ha […]