Mosito slams High Court judges
implores Chief Justice to crack the whip on errant judges who fail to provide reasons for judgements. Mohalenyane Phakela COURT of Appeal President Kananelo Mosito has implored Chief Justice Sakoane...
View ArticleManyokole should have his day before tribunal: Majoro
Mohalenyane Phakela PRIME Minister Moeketsi Majoro insists that suspended Directorate of Corruption and Economic Offences (DCEO) Director General, Mahlomola Manyokole, should appear before the...
View ArticleDPP Motinyane blasts Metsing, Mochoboroane
says their “opportunistic” bid to stop their trial is abuse of court processes, Mohalenyane Phakela THE Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Advocate Hlalefang Motinyane, has slammed politicians,...
View ArticleEU donates M13, 6 million to Lesotho
Staff Reporter THE European Union (EU) has donated €780 000 (about M13, 6 million) to Lesotho for various humanitarian projects aimed at assisting vulnerable households in the country. The money is...
View ArticleMassive boost for DC
…as opposition MPs defect to DPM Mokhothu’s party ‘Marafaele Mohloboli TWO opposition Alliance of Democrats (AD) legislators, Mothepu Mahapa and Mokherane Tsatsanyane, have ditched the Monyane...
View ArticleMokhothu steps up quest to win 2022 polls
…dines with the late Mosotho Chakela’s family, courts famo musicians. Pascalinah Kabi DEMOCRATIC Congress (DC) leader, Mathibeli Mokhothu, is leaving no stone unturned in his avowed quest to secure an...
View ArticleTshosa recusal case postponed
Mohalenyane Phakela BOTSWANA Judge Onkemetse Tshosa has postponed the application for his recusal from trying 10 murder-accused soldiers to 17 May 2021. The application was supposed to be heard on...
View ArticleCourt of Appeal leaves Molibeli a frustrated man
Mohalenyane Phakela POLICE Commissioner Holomo Molibeli is probably a frustrated man. This after the Court of Appeal refused to hear his application for the nullification of the September 2020 High...
View ArticleMurder victims’ families slam Moseneke
say they are “horrified” by ex-judge’s attempts to save Metsing, Selibe and Kamoli from prosecution, vow to appeal to EU and US for justice. ’Marafaele Mohloboli THE family of the slain army...
View ArticleBNP leadership contest gets ugly
as aspiring leaders publicly accuse current leadership of corruption ’Marafaele Mohloboli THE race for the Basotho National Party (BNP) leadership is increasingly turning ugly. This after three of the...
View Article‘Maseribane bows out
says he has no intention of clinging onto BNP leadership beyond June Mohalenyane Phakela BASOTHO National Party (BNP) leader, Thesele ‘Maseribane, says contrary to claims by some party members he has...
View ArticleThree factory workers shot at a demonstration
Nthatuoa Koeshe IN another brazen show of police heavy-handedness, officers in Maseru shot at protesters with rubber bullets at the Thetsane industrial area leaving three hospitalised. The three...
View ArticleSecond batch of Covid-19 vaccines next month: Sekatle
Nthatuoa Koeshe HEALTH Minister Semano Sekatle says Lesotho will take delivery of its second batch of Covid-19 vaccines sometime next month. Addressing parliament this week, Mr Sekatle said the...
View ArticleThabane on Mahao defection: “He can go wherever he wants…”
Pascalinah Kabi ALL Basotho Convention (ABC) leader and former Prime Minister Thomas Thabane has hit back at his former deputy, Professor Nqosa Mahao, for allegedly making “nonsensical” claims that he...
View ArticleABC splits
as Mahao forms new party, after accusing Majoro and Hlaele of handing over ABC to Thabane, DC fears move could spell the end of the governing coalition. Pascalinah Kabi THE long-running infighting...
View ArticleThree Factory Workers Shot At A Demonstration
Nthatuoa Koeshe IN another brazen show of police heavy-handedness, officers in Maseru shot at protesters with rubber bullets at the Thetsane industrial area leaving three hospitalised. The three...
View ArticleMajoro appointed ABC deputy leader
rejects claims that he plotted against Mahao Pascalinah Kabi PRIME Minister Moeketsi Majoro has been appointed deputy leader of the ruling All Basotho Convention (ABC). He replaces Professor Nqosa...
View ArticleForeign Affairs employees transferred after suing ministry
’Marafaele Mohloboli EIGHT of the 17 civil servants who are suing the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Relations for “unfairly” overlooking them in the deployments to foreign missions...
View ArticleMapesela forms own party
‘Marafaele Mohloboli MOKHOTLONG legislator Tefo Mapesela, who recently dumped the ruling All Basotho Convention (ABC), has formed his own party called the Basotho Patriotic Party (BPP). News of the...
View ArticleKhetheng murder trial fails to proceed
as accused police officers file fresh application for Justice Hungwe’s recusal Mohalenyane Phakela THE murder trial of four police officers accused of the March 2016 murder of Police Constable (PC)...
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