MASERU — Speculation over the future of Bantu coach Bafokeng Mohapi has swelled after the gaffer was not seen at the Vodacom Premier League side’s dugout for the third consecutive match at the weekend. But Mohapi insists he is still in charge of the Mafeteng side who are fighting for a top-four finish in the […]
MASERU — Thousands of Basotho migrant workers who had come back home for the Easter holiday are now trapped in Lesotho after they failed to get temporary travel documents to go back to their jobs in South Africa. There was chaos at the Passport Office at Pitso Ground on Tuesday after an official told hundreds […]
MASERU — Professor Adelani Ogunrinade, the former vice-chancellor of the National University of Lesotho (NUL), has died. The Nigerian academic died at Medi-Clinic in Bloemfontein on Saturday afternoon a week after he was rushed to the hospital. Ogunrinade had earlier been discovered by his security guard in a semi-conscious state in his bathroom at his […]
MASERU — Lesotho Defence Force (LDF) soldiers co-operated with the enemy during the attacks at Makoanyane military base and the State House on April 22 last year, a lawyer assisting the commission investigating the attacks has said. In his submission to the commission, Tsebang Putsoane, said this week that the LDF soldiers breached security regulations […]
MASERU — Nine people died in road accidents during the Easter holiday, police figures show. Police spokesperson Masupha Masupha said there were 61 reported road accidents involving 100 vehicles during the Easter holiday last weekend. “Mafeteng had the highest death toll. Four people died in road accidents in that district,” Masupha said. Two people died […]
MASERU — The president of the Law Society of Lesotho Advocate Zwelakhe Mda wants incompetent High Court judges to be “named and shamed”. Mda said this while addressing the Lesotho Court of Appeal at the opening of its first session yesterday. Without naming names, Mda said there were some High Court judges who are undermining […]
MASERU — Five men aged between 30 and 40 were killed in a fire exchange with the police in Mafeteng last week. Another man was shot in the crossfire. The men were part of a suspected gang wanted by the police for murder, car theft and armed robbery. Police spokesperson Masupha Masupha said the police […]
MASERU — Professor Adelani Ogunrinade, who died last Saturday, was born 56 years ago in Nigeria. He graduated from the University of Ibadan with a degree in veterinary medicine obtaining distinctions in medicine, surgery and parasitology in 1974. He won the University of Ibadan Prize for Postgraduate Studies, the DH Hill Prize in Veterinary Medicine […]
MASERU — A 25-year-old man was on Tuesday ordered to undergo an HIV test after he was convicted of abducting and raping a 16-year-old girl by the Maseru Magistrate’s Court. Sekonyana Mabesa, from Mazenod, was found guilty of abducting the girl and raping her outside her home on August 30 2009. Mabesa pleaded guilty to […]
MASERU — Former Lesotho Highlands Development Authority (LHDA) accountant Peggy Thakeli yesterday asked the Court of Appeal to set aside the conviction imposed on her by the High Court for fraud. The High Court in July last year slapped Thakeli with an eight-year jail term for facilitating the fraudulent transfer of M2.4 million from the […]
MASERU — Bora, a strong, athletic taxi driver in his late 30s, is not shy to talk about his sexual exploits. He says with a straight face that he has lost count of the number of women he has bedded. He says he is aware that he is putting himself at risk of contracting HIV, […]
SO the leader of the LCD kindergarten, Mosala Mojakisane, has confirmed he is very much out of touch with current affairs. He confirmed last week that he did not even know that Lefa, Lesotho’s football destroyer-in-chief, had not registered Likuena for the 2012 African Nations Cup qualifiers. In fact, he was startled when a reporter […]
MASERU — Insurance firms Metropolitan Holdings and Momentum have announced a proposed merger in an effort to improve competitiveness and consolidate their grip on the African market. Metropolitan Holdings has a 100 percent shareholding in local operator Metropolitan Lesotho. At a press conference held in Maseru on Tuesday, Metropolitan Lesotho managing director Nkau Matete said […]
MASERU — The Lesotho National Development Corporation (LNDC) has awarded a tender to manage the corporation’s real estate to a local property management firm, Morai-Maseela & Company. In a statement released on Tuesday, the LNDC said it had approved the management’s recommendation to appoint Morai-Maseela & Company “to provide real estate management services to the […]
MASERU — The Lesotho Football Association (Lefa) has called an opposition MP “full of ignorance” for lobbying the government to stop funding the association. Sello Maphalla, of the Lesotho Workers Party, last week vowed to pressure the government to stop funding an association whose actions it could not control. The lawmaker was furious after Lefa […]
MASERU — Bahlabani, Lesotho’s Under-17 national team, have vowed to floor Mozambique when the two sides square up in the first leg of a CAF Under-17 Championship qualifier at Bambatha Tsita on Sunday. The local starlets go into the match following good showing against South African sides in warm-up matches in the past weeks. If […]
MASERU — Matlama coach Ntebele Taole has warned his side against complacency in the run-in to the championship. On Sunday, Matlama took another giant leap towards securing a record ninth league title with a 1-0 victory over LDF at Ratjomose, a result which means Tse Putsoa just need nine more points to win the Vodacom […]
MASERU — Former Lesotho champions Arsenal had to suffer promotion heartache once again when they were pipped to a Premier League berth by Mabeoana on the final day of the season. Last year it was Bantu who put paid to the Gunner’s hopes of rebounding to the top-flight league after suffering relegation in 2008. This […]
MASERU — National swimmer Boipelo Makhothi says Lesotho needs to hire a coach in order for the country to reach any meaningful heights in swimming. A fortnight ago a four-strong Lesotho team brought back three bronze medals from the Under-16 Regional Group Championships in Bloemfontein where Makhothi acted as coach. Ntsike Setho and Tšepo Mafa […]
MASERU — The Lesotho National Olympic Committee (LNOC) has confirmed four of the country’s competitors for the forthcoming Youth Olympic Games in Singapore. They are Tsehla Monethi, Khulu Pasane, Lineo Machobane and Ntsekhe Setho. Monethi will compete in the 100m and 200m athletics races, while the taekwondo duo of Pasane and Machobane will take part […]
MASERU — Former National University of Lesotho (NUL) vice-chancellor and prominent academic Professor Adelani Ogunrinade is in a critical condition in a Bloemfontein hospital after he collapsed in Roma last Saturday. Ogunrinade was fired in February but is challenging the NUL council’s decision to dismiss him in the courts as he seeks to win back […]
MASERU — Opposition parties claim the government admitted at a Monday meeting that it had botched the implementation of the controversial Mixed Member Proportional (MMP) electoral model. There are also claims that at the same meeting held at the United Nations House the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) also admitted, for the first time since the […]
MASERU — Three soldiers were on Tuesday locked behind prison bars after the High Court found them guilty of killing a police woman during the 1998 political disturbances. Thapelo Ntaopane, Monyane Mokoatsi and Bulare Moiloa, were among a group of soldiers who went to Mafeteng police station in search of firearms and ammunition after the […]
MASERU — Professor Kopano Makoa is considered the Basotho National Party (BNP) leader-in-waiting. A strong faction in the party believes he is the right man to replace Major General Metsing Lekhanya who they accuse of presiding over the BNP’s collapse. Under Lekhanya, the faction says, the BNP has lost touch with the people and its […]
MASERU — An outbreak of measles has hit schools in Maseru. Two students from Motimposo Primary School reportedly died of measles after the disease hit the school in early March. The first victim, a boy aged 7, died on March 6. Five days later the disease claimed another victim, this time an 8-year-old girl. Both […]
MASERU — Six former members of the executive committee of the Lesotho People’s Congress (LPC) re-joined the ruling Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) party yesterday, nine years after leaving the organisation. They defected together with 100 LPC supporters. The six were once members of the LPC executive committee. They were led by the former LPC […]
MASERU — A former MP who served as the only opposition legislator between 1993 and 1998 is demanding a government pension equivalent to that of the opposition leader of the National Assembly. Bofihla Nkuebe quit the then ruling Basutoland Congress Party (BCP) in 1993 to become the only opposition member in parliament under his Sefate […]
MASERU — A bread van belonging to Astoria Bakery was on Sunday morning hijacked by five armed men in Sefikeng. Police said the armed robbers shot the driver on the hand before fleeing away with M1 900 in cash and the van. Police spokesperson Masupha Masupha said the robbers blocked the vehicle when it was […]
MASERU — Public Eye columnist, Tukula Makhakhe, who is facing two counts of armed robbery, was on Monday granted M1 400 bail by the High Court. Makhakhe, who is denying the charges, is being charged together with two other men, Teboho Makobane and Karabo Thulo. Makhakhe and Makobane were each granted bail of M1 400 […]
Stamp out the chaos
THE decision by the Premier League to ban the executive committee of Lioli Football Club for the next four years did not come as a surprise to us. Lioli football club and the Premier League have been on a confrontational path for a long time and the club should have seen it coming. The ban, […]