MASERU — Lioli have targeted the Nyenye Rovers duo of winger Montoeli Senopo and goalkeeper Baholo Sefatsa as the former league champions seek to strengthen the team ahead of the new season. Besides the two Under-20 internationals, Lioli are also interested in acquiring the services of former LCS playmaker Ramashalane Taeli. Lioli coach Mosholi Mokhothu […]
MASERU — A local radio sports presenter, Lebohang Maketa, has joined South African Premier League side Mpumalanga Black Aces as the team’s office manager. Maketa, also known as Sebata, started his new job in Witbank on July 1. He has previously worked as a public relations officer for Free State Stars and as general manager […]
MASERU — Local TV personality Phakiso Mokhatla, better known as DJ Phakzino, has recruited 12 aspiring female musicians for his Deep Soul project that was launched in January this year. DJ Phakzino, who presents the hip-hop programme Urban Jamz on Lesotho TV, says his House Shakedown Entertainment company has already recorded a 12-track album featuring […]
MASERU – There will be something jazzy to look forward to every last two Fridays of the month. Starting next month, Lehakoe Recreational and Cultural Centre will host jazz sessions on the last two Fridays of the month. The club unveiled the plans at a function last Friday to celebrate the successful hosting of the […]
MASERU — Sharp differences have emerged between the cabinet and the Central Bank of Lesotho (CBL) over how thousands of depositors with money locked up in MKM should be paid. The Lesotho Times can reveal that although a May 4 cabinet meeting resolved that MKM should be allowed to pay its depositors immediately, the central […]
MASERU — The Central Bank of Lesotho (CBL) wants the directors of the troubled MKM and the now defunct Millennium Goal Society to face criminal charges for fleecing depositors with their money multiplication schemes. Although the Millennium Goal Society was liquidated last November and its depositors were paid a small share of their investments, the […]
MASERU — The opposition Basutoland African Congress (BAC) party wants the director-general of the anti-corruption directorate, Leshoele Thoahlane, to resign. The BAC accused Thoahlane of deliberately frustrating efforts to investigate the alleged looting of the block farming programme. The block farming scandal broke in February this year when former trade minister Mpho Malie accused some […]
MASERU — The Commercial Court has ordered a local lawyer to demand every cent received and spent by Makhoabe Mohaleroe and his son Pule Mohaleroe when they fraudulently took over a local transport firm two years ago. Justice John Lyons last week ruled that Mahaleroe and his son had fraudulently muscled their way into Lesotho […]
MAFETENG — A 32-year-old Mafeteng man shot himself to death after he found his 23-year-old girlfriend in bed with another man last Saturday. Police spokesman Masupha Masupha said the man had visited his girlfriend in Matholeng village when he found her with another man. The identity of the deceased was not disclosed as his next […]
MASERU — A 25-year-old prisoner was found dead in his cell at Leribe police station last Tuesday morning. The man, whose name was not revealed because his next of kin were still to be informed, was awaiting trial for a battery of charges that included armed robbery, stock theft and illegal possession of a firearm. […]
MASERU — A 26-year-old Maseru man who is facing charges of sexually assaulting and robbing an American Peace Corps volunteer was this week denied bail by the Maseru Magistrate’s Court. Tsepo Letsipa, who lives in Ha Abia, allegedly committed the crimes in broad daylight on March 20 near Pioneer Mall in Maseru. The complainant is […]
MASERU — Tselane, like most other girls her age, was once a strong-willed teenager. She would defiantly stand her ground and say no to premarital sex. But that fierce resistance melted and she crossed the red line. Ever since that day, she has regretted her decision to give up her virginity. How could she continue […]
MASERU — Lesotho’s natural resources can spur the country’s economic growth if the government clamps down on corrupt activities within the mining sector, a consultant has said. Addressing a two-day workshop on Monday, a local development consultant Sehoai Santho, said it was imperative for the government to clamp down on graft to ensure Lesotho’s natural […]
MASERU — Lesotho Sun International last Thursday launched a new spa and beauty salon as part of the hotel’s upgrading programme. The reopening of the Lesotho Sun Gym and Spa is part of the hotel’s upgrading programme which began in May last year which is being funded by Sun International and the government of Lesotho. […]
MASERU — Bantu has completed the signing of Mosiuoa Boseka from Swallows for the second highest transfer fee in Lesotho football history. The 18-year-old playmaker who is also a member of Lesotho’s national under-20 team completed his move to Bantu on Friday for M8 000. The most expensive transfer in Lesotho was in January 2009 […]
MASERU — Lioli will spend M120 000 to erect a fence around its home ground in Teyateyaneng before the start of the season. Work started on Tuesday this week. The team also plans to put new turf on the ground once the fence is erected. This is the first time that a local team has […]
MASERU — Eight Basotho youngsters left the country for Johannesburg, South Africa, on Sunday to compete in the Fifa 2010 Football for Hope Festival. The festival, which was organised by international non-governmental organisation Kick4Life, seeks to give underprivileged children a platform to resolve problems through dialogue and sport. Kick4Life development manager, Daniela Gusman, confirmed the […]
MASERU — Popular Lesotho-born musician, Nana Coyote, has died. Coyote, 55, whose real name was Tsietsi Daniel Motijoane, died at Helen Joseph Hospital in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Monday. A friend of Coyote, Lloyd Lelosa, told the Weekender that the musician had complained of chest pains following a car accident three months ago. “After the […]
MASERU — A local classical music group, Kingdom Classics, will hold its first show at Maseru Sun on Saturday. A spokesman for the group, Tuoe Hantsi, told the Weekender that the show will seek to introduce their unique brand of music to local fans. “We are staging a show through which we hope people will […]
MASERU — Tyre bursting. Open bonnets. Whistles and cheering from spectators filled Masianokeng’s famous Lerakong which was full of tyre smoke on Saturday as four drag racers from Bloemfontein pulled shocking and interesting stunts with their Matchbox BMWs. One of the Spinners, Beans, as he is called told Weekender it was his first time in […]
Powerful ABC clique wants No 3 man out MASERU — A powerful clique within the main opposition All Basotho Convention (ABC) party is mulling a plan to topple secretary-general Macaefa Billy from his post when the party holds its annual general conference next month. Informed sources within the party said there were covert manoeuvres […]
MASERU — South Africa will with effect from today only grant six-month travel permits to Lesotho citizens classified as frequent travellers to the neigbouring country. The country’s home affairs ministry announced last Friday that South Africa had resolved to withdraw all six-month travel permits held by Lesotho citizens and issue new ones with effect from […]
MASERU — Three army officers were on Tuesday jailed after they were found guilty of killing a police officer during political disturbances that rocked the country in 1998. Monyane Mokoatsi will spend five years behind prison bars while Thapelo Ntaopane and Bulare Moiloa will serve a four-year jail term for the murder. The trio was […]
MASERU — A defence lawyer has opposed an application by a state prosecutor asking the High Court to accept incriminating statements made by eight accused police officers during an inquest into the death of Chief Bereng Bereng. Eight police officers are facing a murder charge in the High Court for allegedly killing Bereng in 2002 […]
Ruling brings long-running court battle to an end MASERU — The long-running row over the ownership of a transport firm ended on Tuesday after Justice John Lyons upheld a decision by the company’s board of directors to sack Makhoabe Mohaleroe as a director. Commercial Court Judge Lyons ruled that the directors of the Lesotho […]
MASERU — The Ministry of Home Affairs plans to introduce a system that will make it possible for people who have applied for passports to check the status of their applications using their cell phones. The new system will allow those who applied for passports to check the status of their applications on request using […]
MASERU — She took a piece of a birthday cake to a gardener at the family home. But the gardener was not satisfied with the piece of cake. He then allegedly dragged her inside the house and raped her. This was the fate of a nine-year-old Maseru girl last Monday. Police spokesperson Masupha Masupha confirmed […]
MASERU — Joale Nkoale and his family in Peka, Leribe, about 60 kilometres north of Maseru, are still in shock. His son, Ntsoeta Nkoale, 14, was battered to death two weeks ago by a neighbour who had been left to care for the teenager. Ntsoeta was buried in Leribe last Saturday. But for Joale and […]
MASERU — The Lesotho Tourism Development Corporation (LTDC) last Friday launched a new website to market the country to tourists. Speaking at the official launch in Maseru, LTDC acting chief executive officer, Nthabiseng Monoko, said the website will seek to improve international visibility for the local tourism sector. It will also seek to promote Lesotho […]
MKM case needs decisive action
THE MKM saga has rumbled on for a long time with no solution in sight for the 400 000 plus mostly impoverished citizens who were fleeced of their hard earned cash in this Ponzi style scheme. Five judges of the High Court have so far refused to hear the MKM liquidation case offering all manner […]