BAP calls for the removal of IEC commissioners
Moroke Sekoboto Basotho Action Party (BAP) has written a letter to the Council of State seeking the removal of Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) commissioners in individual and collective...
View ArticleZaly challenges dismissal
Mohalenyane Phakela FIRED Ministry of Trade, Industry, Business Development and Tourism Principal Secretary, Nonkululeko Zaly, is fighting her dismissal from her plump public service job. Ms Zaly has...
View ArticleFormer GS Mphaka fights for job
….as he claims political victimisation to remove him from his plump job Mohalenyane Phakela THE government’s advisor at the Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP), Moahloli Mphaka, has won a High Court...
View ArticlePS Manyokole charged with fraud
Mohalenyane Phakela SUSPENDED Local Government and Chieftainship Principal Secretary, Lefu Manyokole, has been charged with fraud after he allegedly connived with other state officials to unlawfully...
View ArticleMofomobe accuses Moleleki of pushing for Letsoela’s ouster
’Marafaele Mohloboli/Bongiwe Zihlangu BASOTHO National Party (BNP) leader, Machesetsa Mofomobe, has accused Alliance of Democrats (AD) leader Monyane Moleleki of being a bad influence on the country...
View ArticleSuspended LTDC boss charged with attempted murder
Mohalenyane Phakela SUSPENDED Lesotho Tourism Development Corporation (LTDC) chief executive officer, Retṥelisitsoe Nko, is expected to reappear before the Maseru Magistrates’ Court on 7 February...
View ArticleMokhotlong businessman charged with wife’s murder
Moorosi Tsiane A MOKHOTLONG businessman is on trial for allegedly killing his wife on 21 May 2021. Lepota Natsoane (35) is appearing before High Court Judge Mabatsoeneng Hlaele over the charge that he...
View ArticleACP Mapola fights early retirement
Moorosi Tsiane ASSISTANT Commissioner of Police (ACP) Motlatsi Mapola has petitioned the High Court to stop Police Commissioner, Holomo Molibeli, from sending him on early retirement in March this...
View ArticleMore fired civil servants sue gvt
Mohalenyane Phakela A NEW set of 51 fired Ministry of Trade, Industry, Business Development and Tourism employees have petitioned the High Court to overturn their dismissals. Their petition follows a...
View ArticleLesotho-South Korea Investment Briefing Session to strengthen bonds of...
Maseru, Lesotho – Busan Mayor, Park Heong-joon and a Korean Delegation that is part of South Korea’s Presidential Special Envoy accompanied by Samsung Africa CEO, Bumsuk Hong – visited Lesotho in an...
View ArticleOpposition calls for moratorium on key appointments
… warns Matekane of reforms failure ’Marafaele Mohloboli/Bongiwe Zihlangu OPPOSITION parties in parliament have warned Prime Minister Sam Matekane to halt new statutory appointments until the ongoing...
View ArticleGvt barred from tacking action against envoy
Moorosi Tsiane THE High Court has issued an interim order barring the government from instituting any disciplinary action against Lesotho’s diplomatic counsellor in Ethiopia, Thato Sibolla, for alleged...
View ArticleDates set for IEC’s PR seats allocation case
Mohalenyane Phakela THE Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) application seeking to strip the Democratic Congress (DC) and Alliance of Democrats (AD) a combined four proportional representation seats...
View ArticleDrama at PSs’ court case
Mohalenyane Phakela TEMPERS flared in the High Court this week as lawyers fought over the recusal of a judge hearing the case of 16 principal secretaries (PSs) who have been dismissed by the...
View ArticleCommemorating more than 55 Years of the U.S. Peace Corps partnership with...
Maria E. Brewer WE are currently celebrating Peace Corps Week, which is commemorated annually in the first week of March. President John F. Kennedy established the Peace Corps on March 1, 1961. During...
View ArticleScholarships show the way: Stronger together
The Canon Collins Trust announces major new scholarship funding to advance social justice causes, saying the power of networking addresses the urgent need to support African thought leadership. A...
View ArticleGvt establishes team to recover stolen assets
. . . warns those in unlawful possession of state property to come forward. Bongiwe Zihlangu/Moroke Sekoboto THE government has established an 11-member task team to investigate and reclaim all state...
View ArticleNSS says it warned MCC about erection of mosque
Staff Reporters THE National Security Service (NSS) says it warned the Maseru City Council (MCC) against the construction of a mosque in Maseru West, citing that it posed a security threat to...
View ArticleMolibeli faces fresh contempt of court charge
. . . as DCP Lebajoa relaunches bid to have police boss jailed for 60 days Mohalenyane Phakela DEPUTY Commissioner of Police (DCP), Beleme Lebajoa, wants his boss, Police Commissioner Holomo...
View ArticleAnother NUL student sues Molibeli
Moorosi Tsiane A NATIONAL University of Lesotho (NUL) student has dragged Police Commissioner Holomo Molibeli to court claiming M200 000 compensation for the assault she says she endured at the hands...
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