MPs reject fresh wool and mohair regulations
Ntsebeng Motsoeli SMALL Business Development, Cooperatives and Marketing minister, Chalane Phori, finally tabled amendments to his controversial wool and mohair regulations but the opposition...
View ArticleMore blood will be shed in parliament-Mochoboroane
’Marafaele Mohloboli OPPOSITION Movement for Economic Change (MEC) leader Selibe Mochoboroane has warned of more bloody clashes in parliament if the wool and mohair regulations are not amended. The...
View ArticleKing Letsie III must take charge of army; Basotho
Ntsebeng Motsoeli BASOTHO want the country’s constitution changed to give His Majesty King Letsie III powers to take charge of the country’s entire armed forces to protect them from political...
View ArticleFired banker lands top PS job
gvt slammed for the “irregular” and “corrupt” choice ’Marafaele Mohloboli A TOP banker, who was controversially fired by Lesotho PostBank, has landed a new plump post as the new Principal Secretary...
View ArticleFresh controversy over Lesotho’s stance on Western Sahara
’Marafaele Mohloboli FOREIGN Affairs and International Relations, Lesego Makgothi, has sparked fresh controversy with his latest assurances of Lesotho’s neutrality on the issue of the Western Sahara’s...
View ArticleFinancial Intelligence Unit officers investigated for graft
’Marafaele Mohloboli FINANCIAL Intelligence Unit (FIU) director, Palesa Khabele and eight other officers of the national anti-corruption entity are being investigated by police for fraud, the Lesotho...
View ArticleAmbassador sues Foreign Affairs PS over transfer
Nat Molomo | Mohalenyane Phakela LESOTHO’s Ambassador to Italy, Lineo Molise Mabusela, filed an urgent High Court application for an order to block the Foreign Affairs and International Relations...
View ArticlePS’s reign of terror destabilizing embassies: ambassador
Ntsebeng Motsoeli LESOTHO’S ambassador to Italy, Lineo Mabusela, has accused the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Relations, Mamonyane Bohloko, of instituting “a reign of terror” and...
View ArticleMetsing attacks Rantšo, Mochoboroane
Ntsebeng Motsoeli LESOTHO Congress for Democracy (LCD) leader, Mothetjoa Metsing, has called on the party’s newly elected secretary general Teboho Sekata not to follow in the footsteps of his...
View ArticleLCD to go it alone at the polls
as Metsing abandons electoral pact with Mokhothu Ntsebeng Motsoeli FORMER Deputy Prime Minister Mothetjoa Metsing’s Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) says its election alliance with the Democratic...
View ArticleLet’s review water treaty with SA: Maseribane
Lesotho not benefiting enough from its water deals with SA Mohalenyane Phakela COMMUNICATIONS MINISTER, Thesele ‘Maseribane, has called on the Lesotho and South African governments to begin fresh...
View ArticleOutcry over delays in completing LHWP II
delays to cost M8 billion Herbert Moyo A SOUTH African non-governmental organisation has released a damning report on the Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP Phase II) saying the eight year delay in...
View ArticleLesotho reselected for MCC compact
but govt still has to address governance concerns before funds are released Herbert Moyo LESOTHO has received a major boost after the United States Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) reselected...
View ArticleMinisters accuse Mochoboroane of treason
he will have his day in court, Minister Phori says Mohalenyane Phakela/Silence Charumbira SMALL Business Development, Cooperatives and Marketing Minister, Chalane Phori, and Home Affairs Deputy...
View ArticleA look back at 2019
Compiled by Herbert Moyo January 2019 ABC and DC infighting MUCH like the year before, 2019 was very eventful in the history of Lesotho. The year started off with increasing tensions within two of the...
View ArticleFarmers resume wool and mohair exports
Staff Reporter FARMERS have resumed exporting their wool and mohair through the South African broker, BKB (Pty) Ltd, amid revelations that two trucks have successfully offloaded wool at the company’s...
View ArticleDeadly festive season
three officers murder Naleli man angry mob beats up, burn corpse of alleged killer-rapist ’Marafaele Mohloboli POLICE are investigating a case in which three of their own allegedly murdered a 39 year...
View ArticleDisgruntled ABC members “form” splinter party
former minister Thotanyana distances himself from new party ’Marafaele Mohloboli SOME disgruntled members of the All Basotho Convention (ABC) have ditched the party’s deputy leader, Professor Nqosa...
View ArticleDC threatens to scuttle budget vote
Ntsebeng Motsoeli OPPOSITION Democratic Congress (DC) leader Mathibeli Mokhothu has warned that they will not pass next year’s budget unless the Speaker of Parliament, Sephiri Motanyane, allows them to...
View ArticleSoldier goes berserk, shoots at court registrar
’Marafaele Mohloboli THE Assistant Registrar of the High Court and Appeal Court Advocate Mosito Rabotsoa recently escaped death by a whisker when a trigger-happy Lesotho Defence Force (LDF) officer...
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