Re: LWP takes on ABC, Lesotho Times, August 19-25 2010 Lesotho Workers’ Party (LWP) leader Macaefa Billy is quoted as saying: “My view is that the old man (Thabane) should be called to order before he brings
destruction into ABC.” I have been saying all along that All Basotho Convention (ABC) leader Thomas Thabane is […]
Re: NUL rebirth overdue, Lesotho Times, August 19-25 2010 The National University of Lesotho (NUL) is run by self-centred, greedy and stingy people who just don’t care about our country’s needs and what Basotho children
are supposed to acquire from it. Maybe the university needs to have its structures, mission and vision changed so that […]
Re: NUL staff protest, Lesotho Times, August 19-25 2010 The National University of Lesotho (NUL) is on its knees. The traditional means of financing the long-standing institution’s activities through government funding
no longer makes sense. This problem has been known for a long time now but no feasible alternative has been put in place. If […]
Re: Revamp Lesotho’s education system, Lesotho Times, August 19-25 2010 I fully agree with the argument put forward that it is high time changes are made to our education system. Our curriculum should keep pace with
the demands of the modern world. Being a specialist in curriculum and assessment studies, I would say there are […]
SCRUTATOR hears Mohokhare River has flooded. At first she thought a spring storm had pounded Maseru until news filtered in that Mokhosi Mohapi had not stopped crying since the Lesotho Football Association booted him out of the
CEO’s office on Monday. And so the tears that have been cascading from those blood-shot eyes down those […]
MASERU — Mokhosi Mohapi’s dream to become the Lesotho Football Association (Lefa)’s substantive chief executive officer has been shattered after the association decided to kick him back down to his old job as
facilities and administration manager. Lefa has already started the hunt for a new CEO who is expected to be in office in […]
MASERU — Lesotho national Under-17 coach Bishop Molatoli has been embroiled in an embarrassing scandal surrounding the disappearance of practice balls meant for the team. Six of the team’s 10 balls were discovered
missing when the youth side, popularly known as Bahlabani, were about to hold a training session last week. Bahlabani face Cameroon at […]
MASERU — The Lesotho Workers Party (LWP) wants the All Basotho Convention (ABC) party to give up the proportional representation seats it secured in parliament after the two parties formed an alliance. This
comes after the ABC announced last month that it had ended its alliance with the labour-backed party. As a result of the […]
ROMA – Non-academic staff at the National University of Lesotho (NUL) are up in arms against the university’s management. The Non-Academic Workers Union (Nawu) which includes secretaries, messengers and other supporting staff this week petitioned the university council to intervene in their
disputes with management. The petition was handed to the council on Monday following […]
MASERU — Businessman Mohau Thakaso yesterday lost his cool after a case against his erstwhile colleagues at People’s Choice (PC) FM was postponed. Thakaso, who is fighting to take over control of the radio station, shouted
“thieves’ time will come” as the defendants left the court. Magistrate Ts’eliso Bale postponed the case in which the […]
MASERU — Tension between workers and management at the High Court has reached boiling point. The Lesotho Times can reveal that the registrar of the High Court and Court of Appeal ‘Mathato Sekoai last Friday stormed
out of a staff meeting she had convened to discuss problems at the courts. Sources said Sekoai, who is […]
MASERU — It was a typical case of road rage. Two motorists were driving in opposite directions in Ha-Mabote in Berea. They met along some narrow strip near a bar. But the two drivers refused to let the other pass
first. In rage, a 30-year-old man pulled his gun and shot the other motorist. Police […]
MASERU — The fight for the control of a Maseru transport company has taken a new twist. Two months after Moeketsi “Chaltin” Tsatsanyane elbowed out a rival director, the tables have been turned against him. Tsatsanyane
was locked in a mortal fight against Lesotho Public Motor Transport Company (LPMTC) director, Makhoabe Mohaleroe. On his side […]
MASERU — Former members of the dissolved Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) youth league national executive committee are set to bounce back after they were nominated to stand in elections next
Friday. A final list of nominees released by the ruling party on Thursday last week shows that almost half a dozen members of the […]
LESOTHO’S education system is in dire need of reform if it is to meet the country’s needs for the 21st century. Education Minister ‘Mamphono Khaketla has made similar calls in the past. The need to review and restructure
the education system should go beyond merely replacing the current ineffectual Cambridge Overseas School Certificate (COSC) with […]
WHILE growing up in the village in Qacha’s Nek we used to play a game called “snakes and ladders”. It was a wonderful way to while up time away from our domestic chores. Scrutator was reminded of this game after she
read what must qualify as the most atrocious editorial one can ever find in […]
MASERU — The National Abattoir and Feedlot Complex, Lesotho’s only national abattoir, failed to resume operations as expected on Monday due to an ammonia leakage last Saturday. The abattoir will be run by a local
firm, Meraka Company. The abattoir’s marketing manager, Thabo Qhesi, told the Lesotho Times on Monday that the delay had been […]
MASERU — The second phase of the multi-billion dollar Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP) will create more than a thousand jobs during the construction phase, the Lesotho Times heard last week. A senior
representative for the LHWP, Leon Tromp, told a business forum for Lesotho and South African businesses last Friday that phase two of […]
MASERU — Mokhosi Mohapi, the Lesotho Football Association (Lefa)’s acting chief executive officer, could find himself jobless. He was suspended last Monday and is expected to appear before Lefa’s disciplinary committee today. The cash-strapped Lefa has confirmed the development but would
not say why Mohapi, 37, had been suspended. Sources within Lefa however suspect the […]
MASERU — Boxing authorities in the country have accused the Lesotho National Olympic Committee (LNOC) of hampering their preparations for the Commonwealth Games. The Lesotho Amateur Boxing Association (Laba) alleges the LNOC is abusing its authority by interfering in the running of the
game.Laba, in a damning three-page press statement, also accuses the LNOC of […]
MASERU — Once the pride of Lesotho’s football, Rovers are in danger of disintegrating. The Roma club has for sometime been beset by mismanagement, but now allegations of corruption might see the
eventual collapse of the National University of Lesotho side. The developments come at the worst possible time, just ahead of what promises to […]
MASERU — Rovers players and coaching staff are up in arms over the state of the club’s administration amid allegations of corruption and deception. The last straw seems to have been the sale of star striker
Mpho Matsinyane to Bantu. The Likuena international joined A Matšo Makaota from the National University of Lesotho (NUL) side […]
MASERU — The Lesotho Referees Association’s public relations officer, Rethusitsoe Lebaka, says he is confident the new Vodacom Premier League season will see no problems for match officials. Lebaka spoke to the Lesotho Times on Monday during a refresher course for match officials held at Bambatha Tšita Sports Arena ahead of the 2010/11 season. The […]
By Khahliso Khama & Lerato Matheka MASERU — Limpho Moletsane has been confirmed as Miss Mazenod 2010, more than two weeks after the pageant ended in confusion over who the real winner was. When the announcer
called out the winning contestant, Limpho and Lintle Letuka both sashayed to the podium ready to receive the crown. […]
Lerato Matheka MASERU — DJ Thabie will next Thursday play at a CD and video release party in Botswana. He will be the only foreign entertainer among the spin masters lined up for the Gaborone launch of Good House,
Creams’ debut album. The Botswana DJ yesterday told the Weekender he had chosen Thabie, born Rethabile […]
MASERU — A local consortium has threatened to sue Natural Resources Minister Monyane Moleleki (pictured left) for allegedly elbowing the group out of the picture when awarding prospecting rights for a diamond mine
in Butha-Buthe. The consortium says Moleleki was wrong in giving the Lemphane Diamond Mine rights to a company owned by tycoon Sam […]
MASERU — Three prominent lawyers are embroiled in a battle for control of People’s Choice FM (PC FM) radio station. Advocates Salemane Phafane and Thabo Mpaka together with attorney Ts’abo Matooane
are among 20 respondents in a lawsuit in which Mohau Thakaso, who claims to be the major shareholder of PC FM, is fighting to […]
MASERU — People’s Choice (PC) FM’s top brass is set to appear in the Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday to answer fraud charges stemming from the long-running battle for the control of the radio station. The charges were laid
after local businessman Mohau Thakaso, who claims to be the major shareholder in PC FM, alleged shares […]
MASERU — The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) has rejected charges that it manipulated constituency boundaries in favour of the ruling Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) party ahead of local government elections in 2011. Last week All Basotho Convention (ABC) leader, Thomas Thabane,
criticised the IEC for allegedly gerrymandering constituency boundaries to ensure the LCD wins […]
NUL rebirth overdue
THE world over, universities are supposed to be a melting pot of ideas. They are incubators for ground-breaking research and innovation. It is at universities that great ideas for business, politics, technology and
societal development are given shape. The National University of Lesotho (NUL) is, sadly, not known for any of that. Instead, Lesotho’s biggest […]