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"I was lucky I had handled a firearm before and received training, so that thrilled me more than it intimidated me."

MASERU, Lesotho, 30 August 2023 -/African Media Agency(AMA)/-Many Basotho youth proactively seek training beyond formal education, and almost 65 percent of

I am not a fan of setjoetla or those who perform such acts but bans on persons, individual or collective, should be done on a flimsy claim to threats to national security. Kannete mona ho batloa nale moferong. How does Lesotho declare Zodwa Persona Non Grata arbitrarily on hearsay? She hasn’t said anything against Lesotho […]

Molobeli Soulo, who died two weeks ago, will be buried tomorrow in Ha-Seoli, Maseru. Soulo was a former minister in the Prime Minister’s Office. He will be granted a state-assisted funeral. Soulo’s eldest daughter, Lerato, told thepost that his father died after a long illness. She said her father complained of a severe stomach ache […]

THE director of Civil Aviation, Motsoaole Lesupi, has been suspended for insubordination, thepost heard this week. Transport Ministry’s principal secretary, Tšepang Koele, wrote the suspension letter accusing Lesupi of misconduct and violating the Public Service Act. He was at the centre of a dispute when he in 2021 blocked foreign aviation companies from transporting diamonds […]

Like everywhere else, the mining sector in Lesotho remains a male-dominated industry with very few women in key strategic positions. There are a few exceptions though. One such woman who has made it to the top is Relebohile Molefe, the Chief Executive Officer of Lesotho Diamond Academy. Speaking to thepost this week, Molefe says for […]

Dear brothers and sisters, subjects of His Majesty King Letsie III I come in peace but with grave concern regarding our existence as a nation in the 21st century. It has been 30 years and three months since Lesotho returned to the multi-party democratic rule. This after the army deposed the then BNP government in […]

IT has been slightly over a year since Kopano Makutoane, a 27-year-old student at the National University of Lesotho (NUL), was gunned down by the Roma police during protests that turned rowdy. Makutoane was shot and killed on June 16 last year, a significant date in student politics in southern Africa. A year after his […]

Mmabatho plays Moretlo, the Basotho queenpin of the largest cattle raiding syndicate in Lesotho

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