MASERU — Bantu’s place in this year’s Vodacom Soccer Spectacular may well be secured. With eight teams due to qualify for the showpiece, the Mafeteng outfit are in first place with 43 452 votes. In a very distant second are Maseru Naughty Boys with 6646 votes, while LCS have moved up into third place with […]
MASERU — Police Commissioner ‘Malejaka Letooane’s bid to avoid jail collapsed on Tuesday when her bail application was thrown out at the Maseru Magistrates’ Court. Letooane has for the past three weeks been battling to avoid going to jail after she was sentenced to six months in prison on August 18 for contempt of court. […]
MASERU — Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili (pictured) says he has little time remaining in power as the leader of the government and the ruling Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) party. Mosisili said this while speaking on Tuesday at a press conference to brief the media about his trip to the African Union Summit in […]
MASERU — Three money lending companies being sued for overcharging on interest say they are entitled to charge extra fees over the stipulated 25 percent interest on loans they offer to their clients. This was said during High Court proceedings yesterday in a case in which over 100 civil servants are suing Select Management Services, […]
MASERU — A man from Sehlabeng yesterday committed suicide by shooting himself in the head in an attempt to escape arrest after he allegedly robbed a sand distributing company, Lehlabatheng. His accomplice is in police custody. According to the police who collected the body the bullet penetrated his skull and got out through the other […]
MASERU — A 27-year-old police officer, Lesia Rakhoba, will serve the next 20 years in jail after he was convicted of fatally shooting his father for calling him a “a pig” last September. Rakhoba in a mad rage also shot and killed his brother, Fusi Rakhoba, and seriously injured another brother, Morake Rakhoba at Likoting […]
MASERU — Villagers in Makhoakhoeng in Butha-Buthe, about 60km north of the capital Maseru, are worried. Since June at least three young men have been allegedly kidnapped and forcibly taken to an initiation school. Kidnapping young boys and sending them to initiation schools has become common in the area, the villagers said. Some parents […]
MASERU — The suspended deputy police commissioner, Motsotuoa Ntaote, has filed a court application to compel commissioner ‘Malejaka Letooane to re-instate him after he was cleared of fraud by the High Court. Ntaote was facing fraud charges in the High Court for allegedly causing the treasury department to pay him and other police officers the […]
MASERU — A taxi driver died while 28 people were badly injured after two mini-buses collided head-on in Nazareth last Saturday. The deceased was identified as 33-year-old Eketsang Babeli of Ha Thetsane in Maseru. The 28 injured passengers were admitted at St Joseph’s Hospital in Roma and Queen Elizabeth II Hospital. Police spokesperson, Pheello Mphana, […]
MASERU — The Lesotho High Court on Tuesday blocked efforts by Lesotho Defence Force (LDF) Commander Thuso Motanyane to evict two soldiers accused of high treason from the army residence. Motanyane had in June last year ordered Captain Ramabele Mokhantsó and Captain Lehloa Ramotsó to vacate the LDF houses at Ratjomose barracks claiming that their […]
AS I SEE IT SINCE independence in 1966 the city of Maseru has experienced tremendous growth. This has been due, among other things, to rural-urban migration. Thousands of Basotho have been drawn by the bright lights of the city. Most of these people have settled in the city permanently. The biggest challenge facing the […]
SCRUTATOR MEDICAL doctors in our kingdom must be very afraid. Yes, very afraid because the bone-throwing kind has hatched a creepy one to demystify the hitherto noble profession. The village bumpkins have invaded the medical fraternity and they are now threatening to take it over completely. They say nothing will stop them. We are […]
DOCTOR’S CORNER DANDRUFF is the single most common problem that can occur to a lot of people. To have a few white-flaked cells is normal for it is simply the sloughing of matured skin cells and waste material through the pores of the scalp. It is only when this becomes excessive that it […]
STEAMING IT OFF IS IT not funny how women wail about equality yet they are the first to put themselves beneath men? Seriously, we gripe about this monster called “inequality” every single day, yet we do not even act as if we really do want to be equal! Well, my thinking is that most […]
MASERU — A new drama on HIV and Aids is set to start shooting in the capital tomorrow. Monna oa Motsamai is scheduled to be screened next January, the producers of the drama said this week. The new drama is a product of Phela Health and Development Communications, a multimedia organisation that campaigns through the […]
MASERU — Sometimes results and score-lines can be misleading, failing to paint the full picture or even changing the reality of what happened. But in whichever way it transpired, Likuena’s 5-0 humbling at the hands of Malaysia’s under-23 sidelast Friday has confirmed that Lesotho have hit rock bottom — the knock-out blow after a brief, […]
MASERU — Like the sunrise on a chilly, sleepy morning, the new Buddie Premier League season brings with it bright hopes and warm expectations for a new beginning. This Saturday’s new dawn also brings with it many questions. Can anyone topple Lioli? Who will be the four teams relegated? How many goals will be […]
MASERU — Mokhachane Moshoeshoe, 18, can be the next Moses Kopo — that is according to his coach Liphalo Moeketsi. The young boxer this week returned from a month-long stint in Italy. Moshoeshoe was initially at an International Amateur Boxing Association (AIBA) training camp held from August 10 to 26. The 15-day “Road to Milan” […]
MASERU — Bantu maintained a healthy lead in the latest voting for the 2009 Vodacom Soccer Spectacular tournament this week. The Mafeteng outfit have increased their lead and now boast a whopping 22 789 votes. They are followed by Maseru Naughty Boys with 5 130 votes, Lioli are trailing behind with 4 854 votes while […]
MASERU — Likuena will not be looking for a new coach any time soon. The announcement of a new coach could take place as late as next year. The national side is currently under the tutelage of Leslie Notši on a caretaker basis after Serb Zavisa Milosavljevic was dismissed two weeks ago. Seaking to the […]
MASERU –– The fate of MKM, the company in which millions of money belonging to thousands of depositors is locked up, could be decided at a crucial meeting next Saturday. The meeting is expected to involve the government, Central Bank of Lesotho (CBL) and MKM representatives. A source said Finance Minister Timothy Thahane was expected […]
MASERU — Police Commissioner Malejaka Letooane this week continued her battle to reverse a jail sentence slapped on her for contempt of court three weeks ago. Letooane was on August 18 sentenced to six months in prison after she ignored summonses to appear in court to give evidence in a car theft case. The police […]
MASERU — Textile factory workers have requested parliament to urgently intervene and help improve their miserable working conditions and meagre wages. Workers from five textile firms wrote to parliament’s portfolio committee responsible for labour issues on Tuesday requesting an urgent intervention. The workers, represented by the Factory Workers Union (FAWU) handed their letter of complaint […]
MASERU — A 27-year-old man, Matsoso Lieta, begged for mercy in court last Thursday saying he raped an 80-year-old woman after he had been overcome by “evil thoughts”. “I do not know what to say I was just overcome by evil thoughts,” Lieta told the court. Maseru magistrate, ‘Makampong Mokhoro, rejected his plea for mercy […]
MASERU –– The police on Sunday stormed the home of an opposition legislator Molobeli Soulo allegedly looking for arms, the Lesotho Times has learnt. Soulo is a Member of Parliament (MP) and national executive chairman of the main opposition All Basotho Convention (ABC) party. The MP was however not at home during the raid. He […]
MASERU –– When ‘Makamohelo Tsietsi bid farewell to her son last Tuesday morning she did not know that by evening he would be lying unconscious on a campus clinic bed. And when she left the clinic on Tuesday night she did not even dream that the next time she would see him he would be […]
MOHALE’S HOEK — All Basotho Convention (ABC) leader, Thomas Thabane, last Sunday appealed to church leaders mediating in the proportional representation seats issue to be neutral. “I urge church leaders facilitating dialogue on the proportional representation issue to be neutral and refrain from discriminating against political parties,” Thabane told party supporters. Retired Anglican bishop, Phillip […]
MASERU — A 70-year-old British national, James Charles Thompson, was found dead in his house in Maseru West last Wednesday. A neighbour who spoke to the Lesotho Times said Thompson had been unwell for some time. “I found him vomiting in his house. He said he was unwell but did not disclose the nature of […]
MASERU — The bodies of two Mozambicans who died during a botched attack at Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili’s residence in Maseru last April were repatriated home last month. Police spokesman Inspector Pheello Mphana said the bodies of Antonio Pedro Nhacatendu, 34, and Joao Manono Sigauque, 39, were handed over to their relatives on August 31. […]
A compelling argument
THE Communist Party of Lesotho, a long-forgotten political force in the country, is after all alive and kicking. A former senator and secretary-general of the party, Jacob Kena, last Friday made a surprise re-appearance on Lesotho’s political arena. At a press conference last week, Kena announced his political return with a startling call — drastically […]