Hlaele fights back against ABC rivals
Nat Molomo ALL Basotho Convention (ABC) Senator, Lebohang Hlaele, has filed an urgent High Court application seeking an order barring the outgoing secretary general Samonyane Ntsekele and his...
View ArticleRapapa tables education bill in parliament
Ntsebeng Motsoeli THE Minister of Education, Ntoi Rapapa this week tabled the Education (Amendment) Bill 2019 in parliament which seeks to make adjustments to the Education Act of 2010. The...
View ArticlePM demands ministerial action on police brutality
Nthatuoa Koeshe PRIME Minister Thomas Thabane has condemned police brutality and ordered the Minister of Police, ‘Mampho Mokhele, to furnish him with a report of how the ministry has dealt with cases...
View ArticleWe didn’t kill PC Khetheng: Metsing
Ntsebeng Motsoeli Lesotho Congress of Democracy (LCD) leader Mothetjoa Metsing says he and his deputy, Tšeliso Mokhosi, have nothing to do with the alleged murder of Police Constable (PC) Mokalekale...
View ArticleNo bad blood with other ABC members: Kabi
Mohalenyane Phakela HEALTH minister Nkaku Kabi, who is also the All Basotho Convention (ABC)’s legislator for the Qeme constituency, has dispelled widespread rumours that he held a rally in his...
View ArticleMahao lambasts ABC leaders
…says new national executive committee is being punished because of him Pascalinah Kabi PROFESSOR Nqosa Mahao has attributed the ongoing power struggle between the newly elected national executive...
View ArticleABC NEC embezzled funds: Moshoeshoe
Pascalinah Kabi THE All Basotho Convention (ABC)’s parliamentary caucus chairperson Fako Moshoeshoe says the ruling party’s old national executive committee (NEC) is desperately clinging to power and...
View ArticleCourt gives ABC factions two weeks to negotiate
Mohalenyane Phakela ACTING Chief Justice ‘Maseforo Mahase has given the newly elected and outgoing national executive committees (NECs) of the ruling All Basotho Convention (ABC) until 19 May 2019 to...
View ArticleState House used to plot my assassination: Hlaele
Pascalinah Kabi FORMER Law, Constitutional Affairs and Human Rights Minister Lebohang Hlaele has sensationally claimed that a plot to assassinate him was hatched at the State House, the official...
View ArticleIEC attacks government
…accuses it of undermining its independence Pascalinah Kabi/Mohalenyane Phakela LESOTHO’s Independent Electoral Commission (IEC), which is widely acclaimed for running credible elections over the...
View ArticleFNB launches agency banking solution
Nthatuoa Koeshe FIRST National Bank (FNB) Lesotho yesterday launched Cash Plus Lai Lai, a mobile banking innovation which allows individuals to make cash withdrawals or deposits at agents within their...
View ArticleEducation ministry distributes books
Staff Writer THE Ministry of Education and Training, through the School Supply Unit (SSU) is currently distributing educational materials for Grade 8 learners throughout the country. This was said by...
View ArticleTeach Sekatle a lesson: Mosisili
Moorosi Tsiane FORMER Democratic Congress (DC) leader Pakalitha Mosisili has pleaded with members of his party in the Lebakeng constituency in Qacha’s Nek to teach their defected legislator Semano...
View ArticleKamoli, Mokhosi wait on High Court
Mohalenyane Phakela THE case in which murder-accused former Defence minister Tšeliso Mokhosi, former army commander Tlali Kamoli and 14 other former members of different security agencies are seeking...
View Article500 000 Basotho in need of emergency food aid
Staff Reporter MORE than 491 000 people or one quarter of the country’s two million population will require food aid due to the El-Niño induced drought which has hit the country hard during the...
View ArticleTop cop laments under-representation of women
Ntsebeng Motsoeli WOMEN remain under-represented in the Lesotho Mounted Police Service (LMPS) with just a few of them being appointed to senior ranks, the Deputy Commissioner of Police, Bohang Lintle...
View ArticleTeachers vow to fight education bill
Mohalenyane Phakela TEACHERS’ unions have vowed to challenge the Education (Amendment) Bill of 2019 which was tabled last week in parliament, saying that it is meant to repress teachers rather than...
View ArticleMokhothu takes aim at govt
Moorosi Tsiane THE leader of the opposition in parliament, Mathibeli Mokhothu, has accused the Thomas Thabane led government of taking advantage of its numbers in parliament to pass laws that oppress...
View ArticleMokhothu mocks Thabane govt
Moorosi Tsiane THE newly-elected Democratic Congress (DC) leader, Mathibeli Mokhothu, recently mocked Prime Minister Thomas Thabane, saying his quest to politicise the judiciary through undeserving...
View ArticleMahao breathes fire
…says he and Lebohang Hlaele will not be pushed out by old NEC Pascalinah Kabi Nqosa Mahao is breathing fire. The National University of Lesotho (NUL) Vice-Chancellor says he and former Law,...
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