Opinion

LESOTHO has made progress in its efforts towards ending the AIDS epidemic as reflected in the preliminary results of the Population-Based HIV Impact Assessment (PHIA). The results…
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Tina Rosenberg A COUPLE of years ago, European researchers began studying more than a thousand couples, gay and straight, in which one member had been infected with HIV and the other…
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 Tsitsi Matope “Wherever there is conflict, women must be part of the solution.” This statement was said by the then Executive Director of the United Nations Entity for Gender…
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Mafa Sejanamane AS I travel around the world and in interact on social media, the constant question I tend to be asked is why do incidents like the killing of the commander of the…
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Monaheng Joseph Mahlatsi IT is worth noting that there has been an attempt by the Lesotho government through the Ministry of Education and Training to introduce a new…
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Nthakeng Pheello Selinyane SO the third coalition government has “finally” been signed some two-and-a-half months since the Prime Minister Thomas Thabane’s investiture! This is half…
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Teboho Dan Molopi INTERNATIONAL practices in small enterprise development (SED) show that small business growth could be boosted by partnering with big companies and…
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Monaheng Joseph Mahlatsi LESOTHO is about to embark on security, constitutional, media and public service reforms. The need for those reforms is clear evidence that…
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Nthakeng Pheello Selinyane THE main opposition views on our country’s future continue to baffle many a good citizen. The former prime minister, Pakalitha Mosisili’s…
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Why Yan Xie has to go! You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.― James Madison, The Federalist Papers THE…
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Editorial OUR body politic is characterised by perennial squabbles over so many issues but one thing that is sure to unite Basotho across the partisan divide is the decision by the…
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IN November 2015, the then seven-party government led by Pakalitha Mosisili paid M32 million to a local financial institution which 118 members of the Eighth Parliament…
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Dr Fako Likoti FOLLOWING the just ended 37 Summit of SADC from 19th to 20th August 2017, speculation is rife that, there will be a military intervention in Lesotho, as…
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Nthakeng Pheello Selinyane OUR air is thick with a vibrant furore around the now (unofficially) widely publicized cabinet decision to disburse M43.5 million to a commercial…
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HEADS much wiser than our own have wondered at the propensity of human beings to fear so many things including goblins and supernatural creatures whose existence has never…
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IT took more than 15 months of dodging and ducking by the police to hide what had happened to their colleague, Police Constable (PC) Mokalekale Khetheng who had disappeared in…
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Nthakeng Pheello Selinyane SOME remarks by the former Lesotho Defence Force (LDF) commander, military ruler and later beleaguered leader of the Basotho National Party (BNP)…
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The reinstatement of Mosito as president of Court of Appeal THE rule of thumb of good governance is that public appointments and dismissals should be done in good faith and…
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What the LLA pension tells us Nthakeng Pheello Selinyane SO the 24-year old wailing of the Lesotho Liberation Army (LLA) of the Basutoland Congress Party (BCP) which is…
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IT can never be over-emphasised that any government must do everything in its power to engender public confidence and it would appear that the four party coalition is going…
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THE use of surveillance equipment to spy on any individual, more so the prime minister of a country is bound to suggest sinister motives. As we report elsewhere in this…
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Hlalele Hlalele ONE only needs to encounter a challenge related to law enforcement to realise that Lesotho still has a long way to go before uhuru. It was not until I…
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Motlatsi Ramafole SINCE independence in 1966, the Kingdom of Lesotho has experienced many political crises that have negatively impacted on the country’s economic growth. Lesotho…
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Progress and challenges AS expected, the newly-formed government of Lesotho faces a phenomenal task to unscramble a deliberate plan by former premier Pakalitha Mosisili to…
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‘Mako Bohloa I WROTE this opinion piece in response to an article I read in the Lesotho Times of 29 June 2017 “Govt to revive Job Summit process”. The article was about…
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LAST Friday, King Letsie III called for the speedy implementation of all the Southern African Development Community (SADC) recommendations and the depoliticisation of security…
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Teddy Atim INTERNATIONAL and national laws broadly recognise equal rights for all. These include the right to fair and equitable access to justice. But justice for women and girls…
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Hlalele Hlalele LESOTHO now has its third government in five years after the previous two failed to last the distance. For the new government to work, there is need for a…
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Neo Tapela When it comes to killer diseases in Africa many people think of infectious diseases like tuberculosis, malaria, or even Ebola. But the reality is that diseases like…
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Nthakeng Pheello Selinyane A LOT of the things that could have been predicted by a political toddler as poised to trip, and even bring down, our historic first…
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