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In the journey towards gender equality and justice, recent decades have seen strides made, yet the road ahead remains treacherous. In the race to achieve the

DOUBLE-MURDER convict Lehlohonolo Scott is fighting the government to pay a lawyer to represent him in his appeal. Scott, serving two life sentences for murdering Kamohelo Mohata and Moholobela Seetsa in 2012, says his efforts to get a state-sponsored lawyer have been repeatedly frustrated by the Registrar of the High Court, Advocate ’Mathato Sekoai. He […]

FORMER Mining Minister, Lebohang Thotanyana, says Lesotho is shooting itself in the foot by allowing Chinese companies that win major construction tenders to import everything from China. Thotanyana was speaking at the Basotho Business Empowerment Forum on Tuesday. The forum was organised by the Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprise (MSME) Association. Thotanyana told the forum […]

THE police arrived in Ha-Rammeleke, a Mokhotlong village, in the middle of the night. They stormed one house and found a couple sleeping. They then dragged the man out and ordered him to follow their instructions if he didn’t want to be killed. Their order was that he should scream while announcing to his neighbours […]

PARLIAMENTARY portfolio committees have a way of extracting honest answers from public officials and ministers. Thanks to a session of the Law and Public Safety committee on Tuesday, we now know why Basotho are not getting passports and Identity Documents (IDs). Home Affairs Minister, Lebona Lephema, blamed it on the lack of funds. The only […]

Dozens of villagers in Ha-Rammeleke in Khubelu, Mokhotlong, were on Monday night rounded up and beaten with sticks and whips by the police during an operation to seize illegal guns. The villagers told thepost that they heard one man crying out for help saying his wife was sick. And when they rushed to his house, […]

A surge in food prices will likely make life miserable for Basotho in the coming year. Their situation had already been precarious in the previous year as the effects of Covid-19 continued to linger. Over the last two weeks, Basotho had to bear the bad news with a spate of increases in the prices of […]

THE government last week bulldozed the passing of the Estate Administration and Inheritance Bill in parliament after the Senate had rejected it. The opposition had also vociferously opposed the passing of the Bill that will allow children sired out of wedlock to inherit their parents’ wealth. 44 MPs voted for the Bill while 24 opposed […]

Basotho are bracing themselves for a season of shock price increases for basic commodities this year. The Lesotho Flour Mills, the country’s biggest milling company, announced a seven percent price hike on all maize products starting next Monday. The company said the decision followed a significant increase in Safex maize prices in March this year. […]

94 000 jobs. That is what the Millennium Challenge Account (MCA-Lesotho) will create in the next 10 years, according to Prime Minister Sam Matekane. The MCA-Lesotho was created by the Lesotho parliament last year after the United States’ Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) found Lesotho eligible to receive development funds. The MCC gives development grants to […]