MASERU — Sports Minister ‘Mathabiso Lepono has ordered a probe into the violence that marred the Vodacom Premier League match between Matlama and Lioli a fortnight ago. The fate of the high-profile match, which was abandoned in the 77th minute with Matlama 3-0 up, is expected to be known by today. But whatever the Premier […]
MASERU — Former Likuena star Lebajoa Mphongoa has joined Nyenye Rovers as coach. The 35-year-old Mphongoa, who was last on the books of South African first division side African Wanderers, hung his boots in November. He joined the Maputsoe outfit’s technical staff last week. The development was confirmed by Nyenye Rovers’ public relations officer Thabiso […]
MASERU – February is, as they say, the time when men are separated from boys. It is also the time when questions begin to be asked. And the question that will be asked after LDF’s return to the top of the Vodacom Premier League at the weekend is whether Sohle-Sohle are now favourites for the […]
MASERU – Defending champions will this weekend seek to put their campaign back on track after two forgettable fixtures. Lioli were trailing 3-0 in the now infamous match against Matlama before the game was abandoned due to crowd violence a fortnight ago. And then last Saturday the Teyateyaneng side blew an opportunity to make amends […]
MASERU – Television personality Phakiso Mokhatla, popularly known as DJ Phakzino, has embarked on an ambitious project targeting the country’s female musicians. Mokhatla, who presents the hip-hop programme Urban Jamz on Lesotho Television every Saturday evening, has launched the groundbreaking project involving 12 female musicians through his company, House Shakedown Entertainment. Among their programmes, he […]
MASERU — The heavy rains that pounded Maseru on Monday left roads and some shops in the city flooded. Some shops at LNDC Centre were flooded. As some people were taking shelter from the pouring rains some shop assistants and owners were busy battling to scoop out flood water from their shops. Monday’s biggest scare, […]
MASERU — Basotho National Party (BNP) members who were fired from the party last week have said their expulsion was null and void insisting they were still members of the party despite the national executive committee’s decision. Speaking at a press conference on Tuesday the seven members alleged that their expulsion was part of the […]
MASERU — Basotho National Party (BNP) leader Metsing Lekhanya suggested as far back as 2007 that Professor Kopano Makoa could succeed him, an expelled party official has said. Mothobi Moholi who was the BNP’s deputy secretary general from 2005 to 2007 and was part of the group of seven party members who were expelled last […]
MASERU — A former police superintendent escaped jail yesterday after he was slapped with a suspended term for soliciting a M1 000 bribe. Keletso Ramoeletsi, 56, was arrested and charged with soliciting a bribe from one Mats’eliso Sets’abi in 2006 following a police trap. Sets’abi was wanted by the police in connection with the theft […]
MASERU — A senior army officer who was on duty on the night of the April 22 attacks on Makoanyane military base and the prime minister’s residence has refused to appear before the commission of inquiry set up to investigate the attacks. Sergeant Motsoto was the senior officer on duty and was in charge of […]
MASERU — The Ministry of Education and Training will release the 2009 Cambridge Overseas School Certificate (COSC) results today. Acting education minister Ralechate ‘Mokose told a press conference yesterday that candidates would start getting their results at their respective centres this morning. ‘Mokose said the 2009 pass rate was 0.6 percent lower than last year. […]
MASERU — Breakaway political party, Senkatana, will hold its first general conference to elect a substantive leadership in Maseru next Friday. Senkatana broke away from the main opposition All Basotho Convention (ABC) party led by Thomas Thabane in December 2008. The party’s leader, Lehlohonolo Ts’ehlana, was kicked out of the ABC for alleged insubordination after […]
MASERU — It was supposed to be the rebirth of Lesotho football, but 34 minutes into the second half of the Matlama versus Lioli encounter on Sunday gunshots were fired and the game was stopped. All hell broke loose among supporters and the running battles spilled onto the nearby streets. In the end two people […]
WHEN the cat is away the mice play. And they indeed have been playing hard at some weekly papers. Imagine what I saw this week when I thought I had done a decent job over the past year of whipping mediocre and overweening journalists into line. My eyes almost popped out of their sockets as […]
MASERU — Mining giant, Kopane Diamond Developments, on Monday signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding (MoU) with an unnamed company to develop the Liqhobong mining project in Lesotho. Kopane holds a 75 percent stake in Liqhobong Diamond Mine with the government of Lesotho owning the remaining 25 percent. The mine is in Mokhotlong. In a […]
MASERU — Spare parts for personal vehicles helped push year-on-year inflation for December to 4.2 percent up from 4.1 percent in November. Figures released by the Bureau of Statistics last week also show that increases in petrol and diesel contributed to the increase. It said operation of personal transport weighed in with 2.1 percent while […]
MASERU — Sports Minister ‘Mathabiso Lepono has condemned the violence that erupted during the Vodacom Premier League match between Matlama and Lioli and prematurely ended the encounter last Sunday. One person was shot and wounded while several other spectators were injured in the commotion that ensued soon after Lehlohonolo Mokhele had scored 13 minutes from […]
MASERU — Vodacom Lesotho’s spokesperson Thabiso Mlungwane says the company, which sponsors league football in the country, is worried about its image after violence marred a high-profile match last Sunday. Violence at the Vodacom Premier League fixture between Matlama and Lioli not only prematurely ended the match, but left several people injured. One was shot […]
MASERU — Likhopo are up in arms over the “irregular” transfer to another Premier League club of a youth international who has been training with them. The player, Makara Ntaitsane, was released by Lerotholi on a free transfer to Bantu last week. However, Likhopo claim the move is against the player’s wishes. Ntaitsane has for […]
MASERU — Roma Rovers are not pressing the panic button yet despite languishing in the relegation zone with just three wins from their 15 matches this season. The 1996 champions, 12th on the latest log standings, on Saturday face an acid test in their bid to stay in the Vodacom Premier League when they face […]
MASERU — Lesotho’s opposition leaders say they are considering boycotting the forthcoming local government elections if the government does not amend the Local Government Elections Act to level the political playing field and ensure the elections are free and fair. The leaders say the Lesotho Congress for Democracy government runs the risk of going to […]
MASERU — A faction in the Basotho National Party (BNP) says it wants prominent political scholar Professor Kopano Makoa to challenge party leader Major General Metsing Lekhanya for leadership at the party’s annual general conference this year. Moeketsi Hanyane, the former BNP youth leader and one of the prominent people behind the anti-Lekhanya faction, said […]
MASERU — A petrol attendant at Excel Filling station along Pope John Paul II Road in Maseru must have thought he had hit a jackpot when he broke into his employer’s office and stole cash and cheques. Thabiso Mabote, 25, had only been employed at the station for three months when he connived with two […]
MASERU — The Lesotho Referees Association (LRA) has threatened to continue boycotting football matches involving Majantja FC until the Premier League Management Committee addresses its grievances. The referees association has since last December been boycotting matches involving Majantja after its players and supporters ‘harassed’ a referee and his two assistants. The players and supporters are […]
MASERU — In exactly 147 days the World Cup football tournament will burst into life in neighbouring South Africa. The World Cup, arguably the biggest sporting event on planet earth after the Olympics, is expected to be watched by billions of people. The tournament which will run from 11 June to 11 July is expected […]
MASERU — When a woman is chased and stabbed with a knife, she cannot consent to sex even if she had undressed herself. This was the message that Maseru magistrate, Masupha Kao, delivered as he passed judgment on a 22-year-old man from Ha-Tikoe who was charged with rape. Ngaka Malingoane was yesterday found guilty of […]
MASERU — Civil servants on Monday ordered a local commercial bank, Lesotho Standard Bank, to stop deducting money from their salaries on behalf of three money lending institutions, the Lesotho Times has learnt. A delegation of the civil servants approached the bank to complain about the continuing deductions from their salaries despite a High Court […]
IN HIS speech to the Private Sector Foundation of Lesotho last weekend, Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili hit the proverbial nail on the head by identifying the urgent need for reforming the country’s investment climate to attract the much needed foreign investor inflows and arrest the scourge of poverty and squalor that have become a byword […]
There is a new bug infecting people in town. The ailment is known as the “January Disease” and it is caused by a virus called “reckless spending”. Doctors have recently discovered that another virus called “foolishness” also causes this disease. Surprisingly the disease is affecting only those people who have made it a habit that […]
Stay in the barracks
LESOTHO Defence Force (LDF) commander Lieutenant General Thuso Motanyane last week told a commission set up to probe last April’s attacks on the prime minister that there were still elements within the army that were bent on subverting the constitutional order. The statement did not come as a surprise to us. The commission is investigating […]