Leemisa Thuseho PARALYMPIAN discus thrower, Litšitso Khotlele, is happy with her performance in the ongoing Tokyo Paralympics, despite finishing second from the bottom. Khotlele on Sunday threw 22.27metres in the F44-66 category to finish ninth out of 10. Despite finishing ninth, she set a new personal record by breaking her other record of 20.34 metres […]
Leemisa Thuseho THE national boxing team’s trip to Belgrade, Serbia for the 2021 Men’s Boxing World Championships is hanging in the balance due to financial challenges. The event will run from 26 October to 6 November 2021. Although the dates are less than two months away, the Lesotho Boxing Association (LeBA) is still uncertain whether […]
Moorosi Tsiane THE Premier League Management Committee (PLMC) this week said it is sticking to its decision to dock LDF’s and LMPS’ points for misconduct. The two premier league sides were docked points by the PLMC after they were found guilty of misconduct for failing to honour their Vodacom Premier League (VPL) matches in June. […]
Moorosi Tsiane THE Bantu management has pleaded with supporters to assist in paying for midfielder, Lindokuhle Phungulwa’s rehabilitation in Bloemfontein. Phungulwa has been out of action for two years nursing a knee injury. He went under the knife at the beginning of last season but has not fully recovered. In a statement this week, the […]
Moorosi Tsiane FORMER Women’s Football Committee president, Puseletso Mokhosi, has accused the Lesotho Football Association (LeFA) of faltering in its decision not to enrol the national women’s team for this year’s edition of the COSAFA Cup. LeFA media officer, Mikia Kalati, last week announced that the team would not be enrolled for this year’s […]
Leemisa Thuseho THE Lesotho Netball Association (LNA) has finally registered its team for the upcoming 2021 Males International Netball Championship. The championship will be held in Pretoria from 15 to 18 September. The registration was delayed because the association was yet to confirm the availability of sponsorship. The other reason for the delay is the […]
Leemisa Thuseho THE national chess team has been eliminated from the ongoing 2021 International Chess Federation (FIDE) Online Olympiad. The tournament started on 20 August and will run until 15 September 2021. The team was booted out after winning just five games out of 11. It drew two and lost four thereby failing to advance […]
Leemisa Thuseho LESOTHO’S Under-20 men’s volleyball coach, Tšepo Raletooane, says the prevailing sports suspension of sporting activities is deterring their preparations for the upcoming African Union Sport Council (AUSC) Region 5 Youth Games. Postponed last year on the back of the Covid-19 pandemic, the games will be held in Maseru from 3 to 12 December […]
Leemisa Thuseho RISING Star and Lankasia cricket clubs have proceeded to the finals of the ongoing Lesotho Cricket Association (LCA) T20 tournament. Lankasia were the first to book a place in finals after a semifinal score of 205 runs for seven wickets against Linare’s 93 runs for 10 wickets last week. Rising Star advanced to […]
Moorosi Tsiane THE Lesotho Football Association (LeFA) last week announced that the woman’s national team will not be enrolled for this year’s edition of the COSAFA Cup due to its disappointing performances in previous years. This year’s edition is set for South Africa and will run from 15 to 26 September in Mandela Bay. Last […]
Leemisa Thuseho LESOTHO’S national chess team is gearing for the 2020 International Chess Federation (FIDE) Online Olympiad from 20 August to 15 September 2021. The Online Olympiad is a national teams’ competition where all federations affiliated with FIDE will battle for honours as a way of keeping active during the Covid-19 pandemic when they are […]
Moorosi Tsiane IN the last edition of our sister paper, the Sunday Express, we carry a story headlined: Blow for FAL. In the story, Federation of Athletics Lesotho (FAL) secretary general, Makara Thibinyane, explains that they have been forced to assemble a new team to compete in the upcoming African Union Sports Council (AUSC) Region […]
Moorosi Tsiane LIKUENA winger, Tumelo Khutlang, has ended his three-year stay at Black Leopards to join DStv Premiership side, Swallows on a two-year deal. Khutlang confirmed to this publication yesterday that the deal had already been sealed and he is already training with his new side. The Lesotho international joined the Limpopo outfit from Lioli […]
Moorosi Tsiane THE Premier League Management Committee (PLMC) has charged LDF and LMPS with misconduct. It has also docked them six points each for failing to honour their Vodacom Premier League (VPL) matches in June. LDF failed to honour fixtures against Liphakoe and Likhopo while LMPS failed to play Linare and Kick4Life. The two sides […]
Leemisa Thuseho KEKELETSO Moseme and Manyama Maisa will lead Lesotho’s tennis team for the African Union Sports Council (AUSC) Region 5 Games in Maseru in December this year. Maisa and Moseme have been participating in the games since 2016 in Angola. They were also part of the national team during the 2018 edition in Botswana. […]
Leemisa Thuseho LDF Ladies yesterday received a shot in the arm from insurance giants, Lesotho National Insurance Group (LNIG), who donated leisure wear and off the field attire to the team. Worth M70 000, the donation includes t-shirts, tracksuits, shorts, bags, caps and bottles. The goods were handed over to the team at Ratjomose Barracks […]
Leemisa Thuseho CHESS star Tokelo Klaas has continued with his dominance by bagging Lesotho’s Spring Open Championship last weekend. Lesotho’s top-ranked player with 1847 rating won the tournament which was held at Scenery Guest House in Maseru. Klaas won the tournament’s open section with five points after six games pocketing M650. Sechaba Khalema, Lesotho’s second-best […]
Moorosi Tsiane OLYMPAFRICA Cougars were last week forced to pull out of the Sports Xpress Awards following a similar action by the Lesotho Volleyball Association (LVA). In its letter to its affiliates, the LVA claimed that the organisers of the awards did not consult therefore the awards nominations are likely based on warped statistics. “The […]
Moorosi Tsiane MARATHONERS, Seutloali Khoarahlane and his wife ‘Neheng, are targeting bringing home medals in the ongoing Tokyo Olympics. The two are the only Lesotho athletes to have qualified for the Olympics. They left the country on Tuesday as their competitions are scheduled for 7 and 8 August 2021. ‘Neheng, who represented the country in […]
Leemisa Thuseho THE Lesotho Defence Force (LDF) ladies’ team will know it’s COSAFA group stages opponents when the draw is held today in Johannesburg. The debut COSAFA club tournament will be held from 26 August to 4 September in South Africa. The host city for the competition will also be unveiled on Thursday. […]
Moorosi Tsiane WHEN his knee started swelling mysteriously in 2012 and eventually prematurely ended his career, former Likuena goalkeeper, Phoka Matete’s dreams were shattered. Little did he know that eight years down the line he would be graduating from the North West University with a doctorate in law. At the time, Matete was at the […]
Moorosi Tsiane THE Premier League Management Committee (PLMC) will push for the completion of the soccer season despite the new lockdown “to avoid chaos”. PLMC spokesperson Qamako Mahao said this in an interview with the Sunday Express this weekend. His statement comes in the wake of the Lesotho Football Association (LeFA’s) decision to suspend all […]
Leemisa Thuseho SWITZERLAND-based mountain bike (MTB) rider, Tumelo Makae, has displayed a promising performance after finishing in the top 20 of the 2021 Transmaurienne International MTB competition. The race was held in France from Monday to Friday. The overall final standings saw Makae finishing 17th out of 121 riders from various countries. Makae’s overall time […]
Leemisa Thuseho THE winner of the open section in the 2021 Zone 4.5 Individual Chess Championship will walk away with US$1500 (about M22 090), the Chess Federation of Lesotho (CFL) has said. The event will run from 5 to 13 November at Scenery Guest House in Maseru. Lesotho is hosting the event for the first time […]
Moorosi Tsiane LIOLI and Likuena midfielder Tumelo Makha is set to leave the country tomorrow where he is expecting to join a South African team. According to a source close to Makha, the midfielder will meet his agent, Keke Mokoena in South Africa where he has three offers. “He is expected to leave on Monday […]
Leemisa Thuseho ECONET Telecom Lesotho (ETL) hosted a one-day golf tournament on Friday to mark the launch of its newly introduced Econet Business unit. The tournament was held at Maseru Golf Course. The tournament saw the pair of Vivian Mo and Masuhla Leteka being crowned champions tied on 47 points. In second place was the […]
Leemisa Thuseho LESOTHO has been stripped of the rights to host the 2022 edition of the Confederation of University and Colleges Sports Associations (CUCSA) Games. The games were initially penned in for between July and August 2020 but were postponed multiple times on the back of the Covid-19 pandemic. They were first postponed to this […]
Moorosi Tsiane RELEGATION threatened Lifofane registered a shock 1-0 win over defending league champions, Bantu, on Sunday to increase their chances of surviving the chop. Lifofane endured a bad start to the season and have been flirting with danger shuttling between 15th and 16th place on the table. The win saw Lifofane move three points […]
Leemisa Thuseho NATIONAL Netball League defending champions, Leqele Netball Club displayed an outstanding performance last weekend to continue their unbeaten run in the ongoing campaign. The Munyaradzi Shanduka coached side beat Maseru City Council (MCC) 51-08 and also went to outplay Leseli Tigers handing them a 39-09 defeat. The league is divided into two streams […]
Leemisa Thuseho THE Chess Federation of Lesotho (CFL) successfully hosted a two-day chess tournament last weekend to commemorate His Majesty King Letsie III’s 58th birthday. His Majesty celebrated his birthday on 17 July 2021. The tournament was held at Maqalika Scenery Guest House on Saturday and Sunday. Although the tournament is an annual event, last […]
