SCRUTATOR CAN someone tell Scrutator what else is not happening at that grotto of a newsroom at the fringes of town? It’s one thing to overprice run-of-the-mill “scoops” and certainly another to foist a bagful of boobs on readers. Scarily, that tabloid has been doing both –– in huge dosages too! Last week’s edition […]
BOTTOMS UP WITH BACCHUS FOR years, young people have asked me: what makes a happy couple? Being a man of the people, yours truly has always enjoyed drinking in various settings to find out the answer to this question. Which brings us to a story Bacchus remembers from his days in Johannesburg. In the […]
STEAMING IT OFF Can someone, anyone, please explain to me where recession originates from? I mean, where exactly did it start? Which country? I have a few things to say to whoever started this ball rolling, because I have a vague idea that he or she is not suffering as much as the rest […]
DOCTOR’S CORNER HIGH blood pressure can quietly damage your body for years before symptoms develop. Left uncontrolled, you may end up with a disability, a poor quality of life or even a fatal heart attack. Fortunately, with treatment and lifestyle changes, you can control your high blood pressure to reduce the risk of life-threatening […]
MASERU — Imagine Khahliso Mphephoka clad in fatigues, clutching a truncheon or slinging a rifle over his shoulder while manning an entrance to an office building. Or a young man who has run away from home toiling in a vineyard in Cape Town or hawking cassettes and CDs on the streets to eke out a […]
MASERU –– The start of the new Buddie Premier League season has been postponed. The 2009/10 season was scheduled to start this Saturday. However, organisers are still to come up with the full quota of clubs registered for the top-flight league. Lesotho’s elite league is contested by 16 clubs. However, with a week to go […]
MASERU –– Three Likuena players who were kicked out of training camp for allegedly sneaking out to drink alcohol will face a disciplinary committee tomorrow. The players –– Thapelo Mokhehle, Motlalepula Mofolo and Teboho Sehloho –– will appear before a panel which will pass judgment on the player’s immediate international future. The three sneaked out […]
ROMA –– Cup specialists LMPS continued their cup hoarding ways by winning the MGC Supa 8 trophy on Sunday, beating LDF 2-0 in the final in Roma. The win is the perfect tonic for Simunye ahead of the soon to start 2009/10 league season where LMPS will hope to mount a serious title charge. LMPS’s […]
MASERU –– This time last year LCS were preparing for the defence of their Premier League crown. Masheshena had just won the MGC Supa 8 –– soon to be supplemented by a Vodacom Soccer Spectacular crown –– and were preparing to win a third consecutive championship. In short Masheshena were the undisputed top dogs of […]
MASERU –– The COSAFA Senior Challenge Cup once again faces an uncertain future following Zimbabwe’s withdrawal of its offer to host the tournament yesterday. The country’s withdrawal comes after it was unable to raise the USD 700 000 (around M5.5 million) required to host the tournament, and it means southern Africa’s showpiece tournament has been […]
MASERU –– Likuena coach Zavisa Milosavljevic has lamented the constant absence of his foreign-based stars –– captain Lehlohonolo Seema, Bokang Mothoana and Moitheri Ntobo. All haven’t featured for the national side since the conclusion of the 2010 World Cup/Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers last October. Speaking to the Lesotho Times this week Milosavljevic cited their […]
‘Mozambican’s promised World Cup jobs’ MASERU — Some of the attackers involved in the failed assassination attempt against Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili were Mozambican ex-soldiers who were duped into taking up “security” jobs in South Africa. The four mercenaries who were killed after the attack on Mosisili’s official residence in Maseru on April 22 were […]
MASERU — Lesotho’s only Sunday paper hits the streets this weekend, heralding a new era for the country’s nascent media industry. The Sunday Express will be Africa Media Holdings (AMH)’s second publication in Lesotho, coming hard on the heels of the Lesotho Times which has quickly established itself as a must-read since it was launched […]
MASERU –– Two local firms are suing the Lesotho Mounted Police Service (LMPS) and the Ministry of Home Affairs for awarding a contract to supply police uniforms to a United States company that had been disqualified during the tender process. Smally Trading Company and Noko Enterprises say the LMPS and its parent ministry gave the […]
MASERU –– The talks to resolve the dispute between government and the opposition over proportional representation seats were postponed yesterday after the mediator said he wanted more time to analyse the issue. The talks, being facilitated by the Christian Council of Lesotho (CCL), were supposed to resume yesterday after the parties agreed on the ground […]
MASERU — ‘Maretsélisitsoe Lethata (pictured) is a desperate woman. Her debts are mounting and those that she owes are baying for her blood. “The people I owe want their money and they are giving me sleepless nights,” Lethata says. Lethata is not a victim of some unscrupulous money lenders. Neither did she spend her […]
QUTHING — Two security guards who barred patients from entering a government clinic were last week slapped with five-year jail terms each or pay a fine of M10 000 each for violating the Internal Security Act of 1984. The sentence was however suspended for five years on condition that they do not commit a similar […]
MASERU — A Maseru man, Nkoli Malia, appeared in the High Court last week to answer charges of murder and attempted murder. Malia allegedly shot and killed Mosa Lemphane on 12 December last year near the Lesotho Bank Tower in Maseru. Malia is accused of shooting Lemphane as he attempted to recover his taxi which […]
MASERU –– All Basotho Convention (ABC) party leader, Tom Thabane, says he is disappointed with the way the Southern African Development Community (SADC) has handled the electoral dispute between the government and the opposition. Thabane told party supporters at a rally in Naleli on Sunday that he was frustrated that SADC had not said a […]
MAFETENG — A 29-year-old man from Khilibiting Ha Ramathalea was arrested last week in connection with the murder of the area chief. The 83-year-old chief was killed while on his way from Thabana-Morena Post Office to collect his monthly pension. Detective Sergeant Motlalei Phihlela from Mafeteng Criminal Investigation Division said the chief was found by […]
MASERU –– Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili last weekend said he will not shift his position on the allocation of proportional representation (PR) seats in parliament. Mosisili told about 3 000 party ruling Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) party supporters in Teya-Teyaneng that the allocation of the seats was done lawfully. The prime minister’s statement could throw […]
MASERU –– Basotho National Party (BNP) leader, Metsing Lekhanya, says he will soon have national rallies to persuade former supporters that have defected to other parties to return to the party. Addressing a poorly attended rally in Qoatsaneng on Sunday, Lekhanya told a crowd of about 150 supporters that he was planning to revive “the […]
Civil servants say loan deductions unlawful MASERU — A group of civil servants is demanding that the treasury department stops deducting their salaries to pay their debts to three troubled prominent money lenders. The civil servants are suing Select Management Services, Afrisure (EEZY Management Services) and B-Blue financial services for unlawful terms and conditions contained […]
MASERU — About 320 jobs are at risk at Raytex Garments textile firm because the company is facing serious viability problems. The company which is a subsidiary of Raytex Limited which is based in China has been struggling since last year. The company which is based in the Maseru West industrial area has already laid […]
AS I SEE IT THIS is my second visit to Lesotho after close to six years. Indeed there are signs of “progress” as measured in the number of cars on the road, the number of tarred roads and high-rise buildings and the state of people’s personal houses in and around town, as well as […]
On Friday 31 July, Peete Molapo, finished his four-year-term as chief executive officer of the Lesotho National Development Corporation (LNDC). Motebang Mokoaleli has since been appointed LNDC acting chief executive officer. This week, the Lesotho Times, caught up with Molapo to take stock of the successes and challenges that he experienced during his tenure at […]
SCRUTATOR is inviting sealed tenders from companies that can manufacture a mouth zip. I want the zip for that blabbermouth of a sister from one opposition party. Bidders must be able to make a yellow zip so that it matches with the sister’s political party regalia. The zip must be remote-controlled so that her party […]
BOTTOMS UP WITH BACCHUS YOURS truly is nursing a mild heartbreak. Mild, because it was not the truly-madly-deeply kind of an affair. I could be placed under the secret admirers category but I had intended to break the ice last weekend. I wanted to do it at the right place and at the right […]
DOCTOR’S CORNER AN increasing number of women nowadays are subscribing to the view that there is no need to bother going through the process of giving birth through the vagina when you can have a planned caesarean section. One of the biggest advantages of a caesarean section is that it can be scheduled and […]
Major step forward for media
LAST week the government unveiled a new media policy to regulate the broadcasting, print and publishing sectors. The draft media policy represents a major step forward for the media which had up until now operated without any written guiding principles. The media have been fumbling in the dark for too long. The new policy will […]