Dispute in the Federation of Athletics Lesotho (FAL) seem to be far from over after the organisation failed to hold its special annual general meeting (AGM) last Saturday. This after Qacha’s Nek district was allegedly accused failing to pay its 2020 affiliation fees and barred from participating in last weekend’s meeting and also the forthcoming […]
Two members of the Professor Nqosa Mahao-led faction of the ruling All Basotho Convention (ABC) have petitioned the High Court to declare former prime minister and party leader Thomas Thabane unfit to lead the fractious party. The two – Sekhonyana Mosenene and Thabo Sekonyela – also want the court to interdict Mr Thabane from making […]
THE Judicial Service Commission (JSC) has begun recruiting seven new judges to ease the huge backlog of cases in the High Court. The recruitment process got underway this week with the publication of the vacancies on the government website on Monday. The JSC invited qualified candidates to apply or be nominated for the posts by […]
FORMER Home Affairs Minister, Tsukutlane Au, says he revoked the residence permit of the controversial Rana Qamar in 2017. Mr Qamar is a Pakistani currently at the centre of a drug and human trafficking storm. Mr Au said Mr Qamar fled the country in 2017 upon learning of the moves to revoke his permit and […]
Prime Minister Moeketsi Majoro has declared a six-month state of emergency after the recent heavy rains massively damaged farms, roads and bridges. Dr Majoro said the state of emergency would enable the country to mobilise resources to repair the damaged infrastructure whose estimated cost is M100 million. In a televised address to the nation this […]
Prime Minister Moeketsi Majoro has fired Defence and National Security Minister Lekhetho Mosito barely two weeks after appointing him to the post. Although Dr Majoro did not give reasons for the move, Mr Mosito this week bared his soul to the Lesotho Times. He said the writing had been on the wall for him since […]
TWO members of the Professor Nqosa Mahao-led faction of the ruling All Basotho Convention (ABC) have petitioned the High Court to declare former prime minister and party leader Thomas Thabane unfit to lead the fractious party. The two – Sekhonyana Mosenene and Thabo Sekonyela – also want the court to interdict Mr Thabane from making […]
MEMBERS of the National Assembly are resisting Speaker Sephiri Motanyane’s moves to replace physical sittings of parliament with virtual sessions as part of measures to prevent the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic. Yesterday, Opposition Alliance of Democrats (AD) proportional representation MP, Joang Molapo, said he had tabled a motion challenging Mr Motanyane’s decision. “Honourable Thato […]
Street vendors will have to wait until 24 February 2021 to know whether their application to reverse the government ban on street vending during the hard lockdown succeeds. High Court Judge Tšeliso Monapathi heard arguments from both sides’ lawyers from Sunday morning until about 1pm the same day before adjourning the session after learning that […]
There was drama at Khali Hotel in Maseru on Monday when two All Basotho Convention (ABC) national executive committee (NEC) members exchanged blows at a meeting to discuss whether or not to recall Prime Minister Moeketsi Majoro. The two members are Sekhonyana Mosenene and Mohlophehi Mohobelo. Mr Mosenene sits in the ABC’s NEC as a […]
THE raging Covid-19 pandemic is ravaging the country’s prisons. This after revelations by the Lesotho Correctional Service (LCS) authorities that 47 out of 60 inmates at its Qacha’s Nek facility had tested positive for the deadly virus a fortnight ago. This means that about 78 percent of all the Qacha’s Nek inmates are infected at […]
Mining minister Serialong Qoo has sent condolence messages to families of seven Kao Mine employees who were killed in a bus crash in Butha-Buthe on Monday. Tragedy struck when the driver of the staff bus with 21 passengers aboard, lost control of the vehicle at the Tlaeeng Pass in Butha-Buthe and it overturned killing the […]
A CRIPPLING strike by nurses and nursing assistants at Queen Mamohato Memorial Hospital (QMMH) entered its ninth day yesterday. Newly appointed Health minister Semano Sekatle is now slated to meet the QMMH management and the Lesotho Nurses Association (LNA) today for talks aimed at resolving the nurses’ grievances and ending the strike. QMMH nurses and […]
Prime Minister Moeketsi Majoro has denied ever speaking to controversial businessman, Yan Xie, over the latter’s complaints about ministers seeking M3 million bribes to protect the Chinese businessman from losing his lucrative government tenders. The premier also denies ordering Mr Xie to stop financing struggling local businesses which would have been awarded government tenders but […]
The All Basotho Convention (ABC) has virtually imploded. One faction of the party insists its national executive committee (NEC) has resolved to recall Prime Minister Moeketsi Majoro while the other rebuffs the claim as a “big fat lie”. The bitter factionalism within the ABC reached a crescendo this week with factional members exchanging fistfights at […]
The street vendors’ application to reverse the government’s ban on street vending during the hard lockdown failed to take off in the High Court this week due to their failure to file their court papers on time. The case is now only of academic interest because the ban on street vending which began when the […]
A leading local human rights body has slammed the government for its alleged failure to protect the human rights of ordinary citizens by decisively addressing the human trafficking concerns raised by the United States (US) government. In a statement to the Lesotho Times last night, the Transformation Resource Centre (TRC) accused the government of paying […]
LABOUR and Employment Minister Keketso Rantšo and her Defence and National Security counterpart, Prince Maliehe, have been fired by Prime Minister Moeketsi Majoro. A few other ministers swapped places as the premier implemented his first cabinet reshuffle since taking over from former incumbent, Thomas Thabane, on 20 May 2020. Those who were reshuffled include Communications, […]