ABC picks Rapapa for PM: Mahao
Ntsebeng Motsoeli ALL Basotho Convention (ABC) deputy leader, Professor Nqosa Mahao, says the party’s national executive committee (NEC) has decided on a candidate to succeed outgoing Prime Minister...
View ArticleEU avails €2 million for reforms
Staff Reporter THE European Union (EU) has availed €2 million funding for the National Reforms Authority (NRA) to enable it to carry out its mandate of coordinating and spearheading the implementation...
View ArticleNetcare declares war against govt over debts
Pascalinah Kabi THE government may soon be slapped with a M686 million lawsuit for its alleged failure to meet its financial obligations towards the running of the Queen ‘Mamohato Memorial Hospital in...
View ArticleIrate judge raps lawyers
Nat Molomo FOUR prominent lawyers representing some of the murder-accused soldiers face imprisonment after failing to appear before Justice Kabelo Lebotse in the High Court on Monday. The...
View ArticleThabane refutes Molibeli’s allegations
Mohalenyane Phakela PRIME Minister Thomas Thabane has said his spirited bid to oust Police Commissioner is solely motivated by the latter’s alleged incompetence and not by the selfish consideration of...
View ArticleRapapa speaks on priorities as prime minister
promises lean cabinet, security sector free of political interference ’Marafaele Mohloboli ALL Basotho Convention (ABC) chairperson Samuel Rapapa, who has been nominated to succeed outgoing Prime...
View ArticleMochoboroane, Metsing unfazed by treason charges
Mohalenyane Phakela OPPOSITION MOVEMENT FOR Economic Change (MEC) leader Selibe Mochoboroane has accused Basotho National Party leader, Thesele ‘Maseribane and his deputy, Machesetsa Mofomobe, of...
View ArticleMetsing, Selibe and Kamoli treason trial fails to kick off
Mohalenyane Phakela FORMER Deputy Prime Minister Mothetjoa Metsing, former army commander Tlali Kamoli, and former Communications, Science and Technology Minister Selibe Mochoboroane’s much-anticipated...
View ArticleThabane asks ConCourt to throw out murder charges
Mohalenyane Phakela PRIME Minister Thomas Thabane has launched a desperate bid to escape murder charges by petitioning the Constitutional Court for an order that a sitting prime minister cannot be...
View ArticleABC chooses Rapapa as next Prime Minister
amid fierce resistance from some ABC MPs, as party SG Hlaele, dubs decision “final”. ’Marafaele Mohloboli THE All Basotho Convention (ABC) has nominated its chairperson Samuel Rapapa to succeed Prime...
View ArticleI don’t want Rantšo to suffer: Machabana Lemphane-Letsie
THE Reformed Congress of Lesotho (RCL) this weekend “elected” Home Affairs Principal Secretary Machabana Lemphane-Letsie as the new leader in place of Labour and Employment Minister, Keketso Rantšo. It...
View ArticleTaxi operators in violent clashes with police
Limpho Sello/Bataung Moeketsi A TUESDAY morning strike by taxi drivers turned violent as the public transport operators fought running battles with police officers who accused them of blocking traffic...
View ArticleRCL leader Rantšo “toppled”
’Marafaele Mohloboli REFORMED Congress of Lesotho (RCL) leader Ms Keketso Rantšo was “ousted” from her post at a “special conference” held by the party in Berea over the weekend. She was replaced as...
View ArticleMofomobe, Mochoboroane in nasty fight over treason claims
Ntsebeng Motsoeli A NASTY war of words has broken out between Basotho National Party (BNP) deputy leader Machesetsa Mofomobe and opposition Movement for Economic Change (MEC) leader Selibe Mochoboroane...
View Article‘I grew up with the late Lipolelo Thabane and she was always very fiery’
Pali Lehohla LIPOLELO Thabane, the murdered wife of Lesotho Prime Minister Tom Thabane, was born and bred in the same village as me. Though younger by a few years, we grew up together in Hermon in the...
View ArticleTextile workers reject wage offer
Bereng Mpaki TEXTILE workers have rejected the government’s offer to increase minimum wages by 5, 5 percent. They insist they want a 20 percent increment and they have vowed to stage a massive...
View ArticleEditor’s shooting trial fails to take off again
Nat Molomo THE trial of soldiers accused of the July 2016 attempted murder of Lesotho Times editor Lloyd Mutungamiri failed to take off at the Maseru Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday. This after defence...
View ArticleLesotho’s food crisis to continue even harvests: report
Staff Reporter LESOTHO is unlikely to achieve good harvests this year due to the late start of the farming season last October and the reduced acreage of crops planted. As a result, most people will...
View ArticleNo confidence vote in Moleleki-led NEC leaves AD in flames
’Marafaele Mohloboli DEPUTY Prime Minister Monyane Moleleki’s Alliance of Democrats (AD) is once again in the throes of serious infighting after 26 constituency committees passed no confidence votes in...
View ArticleMetsing fears death sentence
’Marafaele Mohloboli LESOTHO Congress for Democracy leader Mothetjoa Metsing has expressed fears that he and others could be sentenced to death for treason. The former deputy prime minister expressed...
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