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HIV/AIDS progress commendable
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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Africa: A glimpse of hope for beating HIV
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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Women should play active role in resolving conflict
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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Murder, politicians and rebellious soldiers
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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Re-institutionalising Botho philosophy in Lesotho
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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Interrogating the Third Coalition Agreement
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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Are business linkages effective in Lesotho?
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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Grounding reforms on the notion of Botho
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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Potholes in opposition reforms roadmap
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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Protecting our government from itself:
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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Reforms are the ultimate solution
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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‘MPs loans criteria needs review’
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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Can an intervention bring reforms?
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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The brouhaha around legislators’ debts
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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Let us live within our means
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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Understanding Khetheng’s fate
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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Lekhanya’s remarks and the reforms vision
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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Righting one of Mosisili’s injustices:
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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So who are the ‘MaNazi’ now?
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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Govt engendering public confidence
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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Bugging underscores need for reforms
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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Police Complaints Authority needs overhaul
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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A call for Lesotho’s Constitutional Reforms
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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Dismantling Mosisili’s militia
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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No land for development in Lesotho
‘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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Majoring in minors will take us nowhere
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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How to ensure access to justice for women in Africa
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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Will the new govt last the distance?
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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Africa needs to health reboot to cope with NCDs
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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Could the past arrest the new govt?
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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