… as premier & party spokesperson fight over contract of Mafeteng council boss. Pascalinah Kabi A FRESH fight has broken out in the ruling but strife-torn All Basotho Convention (ABC). The new fight pits Prime Minister and ABC deputy leader Moeketsi Majoro against party spokesperson Montoeli Masoetsa and unnamed party members from the Mafeteng district. […]
Staff Reporter THE Thomas Thabane-led government collapsed on Monday. This after all three of the four parties in the governing coalition including Mr Thabane’s All Basotho Convention (ABC) informed the speaker of parliament, Sephiri Motanyane, of their withdrawal from the coalition. In accepting the collapse of the government, Mr Motanyane then adjourned parliament until 22 […]
Staff Reporter EMBATTLED Prime Minister Thomas Thabane says he will step down on 29 May 2020. He however, said he will only go on that date if the governing coalition and his own All Basotho Convention (ABC) party expedite the processes to facilitate his retirement. In a televised address to the nation on Thursday, the […]
“I will leave office on my own terms and a time of my own choosing”, declares premier despite mounting pressure for him to quit now Pascalinah Kabi PRIME Minister Thomas Thabane has warned his political rivals that he is no pushover and will not allow anyone to stampede him into retiring earlier than his own […]
say move shows he’s no longer fit for office and must go now Pascalinah Kabi THE ruling All Basotho Convention (ABC), the opposition Democratic Congress (DC) and two other parties have attacked Prime Minister Thomas Thabane for deploying the army around Maseru on Saturday. Mr Thabane deployed the heavily armed soldiers to deal with his […]
’Marafaele Mohloboli THE much-anticipated constitutional amendment bill which seeks to clip a prime minister’s powers to advise the King to dissolve parliament whenever he loses a no confidence vote to is set to be debated in the senate tomorrow. This was said by senate deputy president Tšepo Monethi in his address to senators yesterday. The […]
ALL Basotho Convention (ABC) Deputy Spokesperson, ‘Matebatso Doti has been shortlisted along with Party Chairperson Samuel Rapapa and Deputy Secretary General, Nkaku Kabi as candidates to succeed outgoing Prime Minister. In this interview with the Lesotho Times’ (LT) Senior Reporter Ntsebeng Motsoeli, Ms Doti shares her thoughts on the possibility of becoming the country’s […]
THE All Basotho Convention (ABC)’s legislator for Matsieng, ‘Matsepo Ramakoae, has emerged as a dark horse in the race to replace outgoing Prime Minister Thomas Thabane. Initially, the ABC’s national executive committee (NEC) proposed Chairperson, Samuel Rapapa, Deputy Secretary General Nkaku Kabi and Deputy Spokesperson ‘Matebatso Doti but the NEC has bowed down to […]
Tefo Tefo A landmark constitutional case in which Deputy Prime Minister, Mothetjoa Metsing, wants the Constitutional Court to declare acquisition of his banking details by the anti-corruption unit unconstitutional will proceed on September 9, 2014 in the Constitutional Court. The case was postponed on Thursday after the respondents filed their answering affidavits on Tuesday […]
…as Prime Minister Thomas Thabane flees to South Africa Staff Reporters ANARCHY reigned in Lesotho yesterday after Prime Minister Thomas Thabane fled into South Africa as the Lesotho Defence Force (LDF) staged what the premier has since described as a coup d’état. On a day of high drama, many nervous Basotho, including ministers and senior government […]
Keiso Mohloboli THE LESOTHO Congress for Democracy (LCD) Deputy Secretary General, Tšeliso Mokhosi, yesterday said the LCD-led march which had been earmarked for tomorrow has since been cancelled. The march was aimed at putting pressure on Prime Minister Thomas Thabane to lift the nine-month suspension of parliament which he effected on 10 June 2014 at […]
Premier insists Lieutenant General Kamoli is no longer army commander Staff Reporters PRIME Minister Thomas Thabane has assured Basotho that he remains in charge of the government and will shortly be back in the country to assert his authority after Lieutenant General Tlali Kamoli’s attempt to stage a coup. The Prime Minister also insisted that he had fired Lt […]
Keiso Mohloboli LIEUTENANT General Tlali Kamoli says he is still the Lesotho Defence Force (LDF) commander despite a statement to the contrary issued by Prime Minister Thomas Thabane’s Press Secretary, Thabo Thakalekoala, yesterday. In an interview with the Sunday Express, Lt General Kamoli scoffed at Mr Thakalekoala’s radio announcement, insisting he remained the LDF boss. Mr […]
Billy Ntaote NEWLY-APPOINTED Lesotho Defence Force (LDF) Commander, Lieutenant General Maaparankoe Mahao, escaped unharmed when unknown gunmen attacked his Koalabata home yesterday morning. Lieutenant General Mahao was appointed the new LDF boss on Friday, taking over from Lieutenant General Tlali Kamoli, according to an Extraordinary Government Gazette Volume 59 published on Friday 29 August 2014. […]
Lekhetho Ntsukunyane A Lesotho Mounted Police Service (LMPS) sub-inspector was shot dead, while three constables were seriously injured during yesterday’s clashes between the police and members of the Lesotho Defence Force (LDF). The violence, which took place at Maseru Central Police Station, Police Headquarters and Ha-Mabote Police Station, started at around 3am and resulted in […]
SUSPECTS held at the police headquarters in Maseru have been released following the storming of government and police buildings and jamming of radio stations by military units today. The army units have since left the police headquarters but left anarchy in their wake as police had fled the building fearing for their safety. Due […]
By Diadie Ba and Saliou Samb DAKAR/CONAKRY (Reuters) – The West African state of Senegal became the fifth country to be touched by the world’s worst Ebola outbreak on Friday, while riots broke out in neighbouring Guinea where infection rates are rising fast. The deadly virus has defied efforts by governments to control it, prompting […]
