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Political parties bleed Lesotho Freight and Bus Services Corporation
Corporation mired in multi-million-maloti debts Seeks govt bailout to pay debts and salaries Pascalinah Kabi THE Lesotho Freight and Bus Services Corporation is drowning in debt and in dire need of a...
View ArticleOmbudsman told to cancel LCS hearings
’Marafaele Mohloboli THE principal secretary in the Ministry of Justice and Correctional Service, Advocate Lebohang Mochaba, has directed the ombudsman, Advocate Leshele Thoahlane KC to halt his...
View ArticleMore dirt on LMPS procurement processes
Ntsebeng Motsoeli THE entrenched corruption in the Lesotho Mounted Police Service (LMPS) was this week exposed by a senior police officer who told Public Accounts Committee (PAC) that she was forced to...
View ArticleMaliehe in trouble
…faces disciplinary action over attacks on the First Lady Pascalinah Kabi THE ruling All Basotho Convention (ABC) will soon haul its outspoken chairperson, Motlohi Maliehe, before a disciplinary...
View ArticleMGC explains roadworks delays
Mohalenyane Phakela THE 6, 5-kilometre road from Lekhalaneng to Ha Matala traffic circle via Ha Pita, whose construction has taken over two years, will finally be completed next month, the contractor...
View ArticleGovt speaks on SADC facilitation
Staff Reporter FOREIGN Affairs minister Lesogo Magkothi has said that South African President Cyril Ramaphosa’s delay in appointing the Southern African Development Community (SADC) facilitators to...
View Article‘SADC unhappy with slow pace of reforms’
Pascalinah Kabi THE government is tomorrow expected to table a progress report at the Southern African Development Community (SADC) summit in Windhoek, Namibia amid indications that the regional body...
View ArticleLabour Commissioner denies corruption claims
Ntsebeng Motsoeli THE Commissioner of Labour, ‘Mamohale Matsoso has denied involvement in an alleged syndicate within the Ministry of Labour that is reportedly granting work permits to undeserving...
View ArticleBlow for workers as court blocks wage increases
’Marafaele Mohloboli FACTORY workers were this week dealt a major blow in their quest for wage increments after High Court judge Justice Tšeliso Monaphathi issued an interim court order blocking the...
View ArticleRapapa warns of more worker unrest
Ntsebeng Motsoeli RULING All Basotho Convention (ABC) legislator Sam Rapapa has warned of unrest and possible factory closures and retrenchments in the aftermath of the government’s decision to...
View ArticleABC in a crisis
…as Thabane warns that the ruling party is “drifting towards hatred, killings and corruption” ’Marafaele Mohloboli PRIME Minister and All Basotho Convention (ABC) leader Thomas Thabane has warned that...
View ArticleThabane’s security breached at ABC rally
’Marafaele Mohloboli PRIME Minister and All Basotho Convention (ABC) leader Thomas Thabane’s bodyguards had to scramble to their vehicles to retrieve guns to protect the premier after the ABC’s weekend...
View ArticleThabane fires Maliehe
…Maliehe says not bitter with the decision Pascalinah Kabi PRIME Minister Thomas Thabane has sacked Tourism, Culture and Environment Minister, Motlohi Maliehe, the third such dismissal this year. The...
View ArticleState House used to plot my death: Maliehe
Pascalinah Kabi Fired cabinet minister and chairman of the ruling All Basotho Convention (ABC), Motlohi Maliehe, has made sensational claims that State House, the prime minister’s official residence in...
View ArticleLetšeng makes another massive diamond find
Staff Reporter LETŠENG Diamonds continued with its impressive performance of recovering high quality diamonds, with the latest find being a 138-carat top white colour Type IIa diamond from its mine in...
View ArticleOpposition end reforms boycott
’Marafaele Mohloboli OPPOSITION parties have finally agreed to participate in the national reforms process after the government agreed to withdraw its application for the extradition of exiled Lesotho...
View ArticleGovt loses M1,8 billion in uncollected taxes
Bereng Mpaki THE government reportedly lost US$130 930 508 (about M1, 83 billion) in three financial years, 2009/10 to 2011/12 due to the failure by the Ministry of Mining to collect taxes from diamond...
View ArticleParly suspends issuance of work permits
Bereng Mpaki THE Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has instructed the Ministry of Labour and Employment to temporarily suspend the issuance of work permits to pave way for investigations of alleged fraud...
View ArticleDCEO slapped with M11 million lawsuit
Pascalinah Kabi THE Directorate on Corruption and Economic Offences (DCEO) has been slapped with an M11 million lawsuit by the director of Hippo Transport, Mohopoli Isaac Monokoane. Mr Monokoane...
View ArticleForestry minister Motsie resigns
…denies claims that she was forced to resign after falling out with the First Lady Pascalinah Kabi THE Minister of Forestry and Land Reclamation ‘Mamotsie Motsie has resigned with effect from tomorrow...
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