Shock M45 courts budget
Mohalenyane Phakela MAGISTRATES’ courts are being forced to share paltry amounts as low as M500 to fund their operations in a shocking development that is likely to plunge the troubled judiciary into...
View ArticleUrban communities shun TB screening
Limpho Sello THE Tuberculosis (TB) Control Manager in the Ministry of Health, Llang Maama, says the public must change its behaviour towards the ongoing programme to screen people for the disease if...
View ArticleWidow slaps police with M1 million lawsuit
Nat Molomo A 2011 case of alleged police brutality has come back to haunt the Lesotho Mounted Police Service (LMPS) after a Maseru widow recently slapped them with a M1 Million lawsuit for “brutally...
View ArticleNew court date for govt fleet tender lawsuit
Mohalenyane Phakela THE High Court has postponed to 10 May 2019 the acrimonious case in which fleet management companies are fighting over the tender to manage the government vehicle fleet. Justice...
View ArticleMEC holds inaugural elective conference
’Marafaele Mohloboli THE internal election season for the country’s political parties continues this week with the opposition Movement for Economic Change (MEC) holding its first ever elective...
View ArticleMetsing praises govt
Pascalinah Kabi THE leader of opposition Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD), Mothetjoa Metsing, has applauded the government for finally meeting his security demands as one of the conditions for his...
View ArticleAD places ‘rebels’ under surveillance
Moorosi Tsiane THE infighting which erupted within Deputy Prime Minister Monyane Moleleki’s Alliance of Democrats (AD) took another turn this week with the party’s spokesperson, Thuso Litjobo, alleging...
View ArticleThabane backtracks on govt collapse claims
dismisses talk of imminent snap elections, says his regime is “very stable” Bereng Mpaki PRIME Minister Thomas Thabane has backtracked on his recent statements that the government faces collapse...
View ArticleABC talks collapse again as NEC factions dig in
’Marafaele Mohloboli NEGOTIATIONS between the warring old and new national executive committees (NECs) of the ruling All Basotho Convention (ABC) collapsed again this week. The spokesperson of the new...
View ArticleArmy prisoners probed over national security breaches
preliminary probe shows prisoners’ secret illegal communications with politicians Pascalinah Kabi THE army, police, prisons and intelligence service are all investigating what they call a major breach...
View ArticleVictory at last for fired NSS officers
Mohalenyane Phakela THE Thomas Thabane administration this week suffered a major legal defeat after the High Court ordered the reinstatement of 77 National Security Services (NSS) officers who were...
View ArticleMahao digs in on ABC crisis
Limpho Sello THE incoming deputy leader of the fractious All Basotho Convention (ABC), Professor Nqosa Mahao, says that negotiations to end the infighting between the old and new national executive...
View ArticleMetsing opposes snap elections
Pascalinah Kabi THE leader of the opposition Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD), Mothetjoa Metsing, says in the event of the collapse of the Thomas Thabane administration, his party will not support...
View Article500 000 Basotho urgently in need of food aid
Ntsebeng Motsoeli MORE than 600 000 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 ArticleInvestigate LHWP, Thabane, Ramaphosa told
Pascalinah Kabi/Nthatuoa Koeshe A GROUP of concerned Lesotho citizens have called on Prime Minister Thomas Thabane and his South African counterpart, President Cyril Ramaphosa, to commission retired...
View ArticleMokhotlong communities threaten LHWP
Nthatuoa Koeshe | Pascalinah Kabi MOKHOTLONG – THE multi-billion maloti Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP) Phase II is under threat from villagers in the Mokhotlong district who have vowed to stop...
View ArticleJustice Mahase in angry response to critics
“I’m only human, don’t attack me over things that are in the hands of God” threatens legal action over protests Mohalenyane Phakela / Nat Molomo THE beleaguered Acting Chief Justice, ‘Maseforo Mahase,...
View ArticleThabane breathes fire
I have nothing to discuss with Mahao premier angered by Prof Mahao’s claims of a dictatorship in the ABC and in govt Limpho Sello/ ’Marafaele Mohloboli HOPES of a deal to end the infighting in the All...
View ArticleHigh Court nullifies Mahao election
Mohalenyane Phakela ACTING Chief Justice ’Maseforo Mahase has nullified the All Basotho Convention (ABC)’s February 2019 elective conference in a judgment issued yesterday. The judgment effectively...
View ArticleMahase drops ABC bombshell
nullifies Mahao and others’ election to ABC’s NEC default judgement shocks Mahao faction Mohalenyane Phakela THE battle for the heart and soul of the ruling All Basotho Convention (ABC) yesterday took...
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