Race for ABC posts hots up
Pascalinah Kabi THE race is on for the top leadership posts in the ruling All Basotho Convention (ABC) after the party set tomorrow as the deadline for submission of names of potential candidates to...
View ArticleMetsing insists on GNU, truth commission
’Marafaele Mohloboli FORMER Deputy Prime Minister Mothetjoa Metsing has reiterated his demand for the establishment of a government of national unity (GNU) and an independent truth and reconciliation...
View ArticleMutiny soldiers mull suing army over compensation
…the compensation claims are as high as M1 million per soldier Pascalinah Kabi A STORM is said to brewing in the Lesotho Defence Force (LDF) amid indications that some soldiers are mulling legal action...
View ArticleI don’t fear arrest: Metsing
“…because SADC-brokered deals supersede local court judgements” ’Marafaele Mohloboli FORMER Deputy Prime Minister Mothetjoa Metsing says he is unfazed by the recent Constitutional Court ruling that...
View ArticleABC has lots focus: Mahao
NATIONAL University of Lesotho Vice Chancellor, Nqosa Mahao, was recently nominated for a senior post in the All Basotho Convention (ABC) in the run up to the party’s elective conference scheduled for...
View ArticleBasotho top SA festive season arrivals
Herbert Moyo SOUTH Africa has extended operating times at its border posts and deployed 425 additional staff in anticipation of greater volumes of travelers from Lesotho and other countries during the...
View ArticleThabane reads riot act to ABC members
’Marafaele Mohloboli PRIME Minister Thomas Thabane has read the riot act to members of his All Basotho Convention (ABC), saying party officials who fight each other in the media would have...
View ArticleLHDA awards M123 million bridges tender
Herbert Moyo THE Lesotho Highlands Development Authority (LHDA) has awarded Aurecon Lesotho (Pty) Ltd a M123 million contract to design and supervise the construction of the major bridges under Phase...
View Article300 000 Basotho will need food aid
Mohalenyane Phakela MORE than 300 000 people or one seventh of the country’s 2, 1 million population will require food aid due to the El-Niño induced drought which is expected to hit the country during...
View ArticleMen nabbed for raping minor
Ntsebeng Motsoeli FOUR men from Naleli, in the Berea district were yesterday remanded in custody to 14 December this year when they appeared before the court for allegedly raping a 13-year-old boy on...
View ArticleLipolelo Thabane murder probe stalls
’Marafaele Mohloboli INVESTIGATIONS into the June 2017 assassination of former First Lady Lipolelo Thabane have encountered some challenges with Foreign Affairs Minister Lesego Makgothi saying “the...
View ArticleSADC approves smaller standby force for Lesotho
…the force’s three months tenure to cost US$785 000 ’Marafaele Mohloboli THE Southern African Development Community (SADC) is maintaining a small contingent of troops in the country until March next...
View ArticleMahao attacks Ramaphosa, SADC
Pascalinah Kabi ALL Basotho Convention (ABC) nominee for the deputy leader position, Nqosa Mahao, has launched a blistering attack on current South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and the then...
View ArticleMahao Guns for top ABC Post
says ruling party has lost its luster and the country is sinking Pascalinah Kabi Professor Nqosa Mahao, the vice chancellor of the National University of Lesotho (NUL), has finally confirmed that he...
View ArticleMore misery for ‘killer’ soldiers
Mohalenyane Phakela TEN murder-accused soldiers who have been languishing in remand prison for more than a year will have to wait until 19 December to know when they will stand trial. The soldiers...
View ArticleGovt accountant up for 620k fraud
Bereng Mpaki A MINISTRY of Finance accountant was yesterday dragged to the Maseru Magistrate’s Court to face charges of defrauding the government of M620 000 over the past six years. Limakatso...
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Peace Corps celebrate 50th anniversary in Lesotho
Nthatuoa Koeshe THE United States (US) Peace Corps marked 50 years of friendship with Basotho yesterday with the swearing in of 60 new volunteers at Thaba Bosiu Cultural Village bringing the number of...
View ArticleInefficient NDSO guzzles health budget: Minister
… shortages of drugs persist in govt hospitals despite huge cash outlay to the NDSO Lerato Matheka HEALTH Minister Nkaku Kabi says the National Drug Service Organisation (NDSO) is failing to discharge...
View ArticleLocals in danger of losing out on lucrative cannabis industry
Ntsebeng Motsoeli TWENTY Basotho-owned companies are in danger of losing their stakes in the country’s fledgling multi-million-dollar medical marijuana industry if they fail to meet a 31 January 2019...
View ArticleSecurity of diamonds not foolproof: Minister
…Minister Sello distances self from his secretary who was arrested for illegally peddling diamonds Bereng Mpaki THE Minister of Mining, Keketso Sello, says the systems aimed at securing the country’s...
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