Mokhachane joins Botswana outfit
…skilful midfielder leaves today for a new life at VTM Football Club in Gaborone. Leemisa Thuseho Bantu and national team midfielder, Neo Mokhachane, has joined Botswana premier league side VTM FC in a deal worth M100,000. News of the deal was released by Bantu Football Club on Monday this week, with the move marking a […]
Ramakongoana books ticket to Paris Olympics
…iconic marathoner becomes first Mosotho to qualify for next year’s global showpiece Leemisa Thuseho Top long distance runner, Tebello Ramakongoana has become the first Lesotho athlete to qualify for the 2024 Olympic Games to be held in France. The 26-year-old Qacha’s Nek-based runner qualified for the quadrennial international multi-sport event following his excellent performance in […]
Khutlang returns to Lioli
Leemisa Thuseho Lioli have re-united with their former winger Tumelo Khutlang. Khutlang left the Teyateyaneng football giants in 2018 when he joined South African premier league side, Black Leopards. On Tuesday, TseNala announced Khutlang’s return but did not reveal the conditions of this surprise reunification. “The executive committee of Lioli is happy to announce the […]
Tennis elections postponed once again
Leemisa Thuseho Elections to choose a new Lesotho Lawn Tennis Association (LLTA) executive have been postponed once again, this time to 26 November. Initially, the elections were set for 30 July 2023 but had to be postponed to 13 August after the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) formed by the Lesotho National Olympic Committee (LSRC) and […]
Market lessons that are never learned
When we look back at bubbles and crashes through history, we often placate ourselves by thinking “nobody saw it coming back then, but if I had been alive I would’ve seen the idiocy and avoided that bubble.” That’s a much easier narrative to accept than the truth: Many people saw these bubbles and crashes coming, […]
Letšeng capacitates police in fight against crime
Moroke Sekoboto Mining giant, Letšeng Diamond, on Friday donated a Toyota Land Cruiser to the Lesotho Mounted Police Service (LMPS). The donation was part of Letšeng’s efforts to assist the police combat rampant crime afflicting the nation, under the mine’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiative. Accepting the vehicle at a handover ceremony held at Police […]
Matekane dismisses plot to oust him
… condemns plotters as “day dreamers” … but opposition leaders vow to eject him from power Staff Reporters PRIME Minister Sam Matekane has come out guns blazing, dismissing legislators plotting to oust him as day dreamers. But opposition leaders have vowed to press ahead with plans to oust him and his coalition, describing Mr Matekane […]
Politicians must avoid pushing Lesotho to the edge once more
ALLEGATIONS that Prime Minister Sam Matekane’s government is misusing the army to fight political battles should not be taken lightly and dismissed as mere rhetoric. These very serious accusations were made at the weekend by Democratic Congress leader, Mathibeli Mokhothu, and had an ominous, if familiar, ring to them capable of pushing Lesotho to the […]