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In 2015 Mahali Phamotse lost the Democratic Congress (DC)’s primary election for Matlakeng to seasoned politician Mothobi Nkhahle. Phamotse rejected the result and accused Nkhahle of rigging. Her supporters thronged the DC offices in Maseru in a protest to demand a re-run. The party obliged but an incident that night would change Phamotse’s political career […]

POLICE Commissioner Holomo Molibeli on Monday lifted a six-month ban on the issuance of gun licences. In a savingram released on Friday, Commissioner Molibeli instructed his officers to resume receiving new applications for licences and process pending ones. The decision by the police boss to lift the ban comes at a time when Lesotho has […]

THE Basotho Action Party (BAP) leader Professor Nqosa Mahao has defended the party’s decision to ban the use of social media to discuss the party’s internal affairs. Professor Mahao told thepost he is “not ashamed of stopping the social media use in the party”. This is after factionalism broke out in the party after some […]

THE Basotho National Party (BNP) leader Machesetsa Mofomobe is demanding M5 million from the government for defamation. Mofomobe’s lawyers at Hudssons Chambers, sent the letter of demand to the Attorney General, Advocate Rapelang Motsieloa, on Tuesday. Mofomobe says the Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office, Limpho Tau, and the National Security Service (NSS) boss Pheello […]

SARELE ‘Lehlanya’ Sello, the leader of a faction of the fearsome Terene gang, could have played an important role in the arrest of the four gangsters accused of killing journalist Ralikonelo Joki. The police have named three of the four suspects. They are Sootho Liphoto, 35, Kamo Phakoe, 35 and Mothusi Tlelase, 31. The fourth […]

THERE were days in the past when mining companies would get to an area, burrow into Mother Earth, only to leave when the minerals were completely depleted. They did so with little regard for the damage they inflicted on the environment. Thankfully, today, the majority of mining companies have moved away from such reckless endevours. […]

HAWKS within the Revolution for Prosperity (RFP) are not happy with the recent deployment of two officials, Ntšiuoa Sekete and Nena Matete, to foreign embassies. They have accused the party leadership of nepotism by appointing the two who they claim are not qualified for the job. The latest spat merely serves to confirm what we […]

Lesotho’s Natural Resources Minister Mohlomi Moleko says South Africa should pay M12 billion worth of terminal benefits to Basotho who worked in the mines. Moleko was speaking a week after he was involved in a nasty public spat with his South African counterpart Gwede Mantashe. The two clashed after Lesotho sought to retrieve the bodies […]

A parliamentary committee is set to grill the National Security Service (NSS) boss, Pheello Ralenkoane, after his damaging legal battle with Machesetsa Mofomobe. Ralenkoane will appear before the Prime Minister’s Ministries and Departments, Governance, Foreign Relations and Information committee next Monday. thepost has been told that the committee is concerned that Ralenkoane could have overstepped […]

There was a time when Nkaku Kabi appeared only a mere millimetre away from becoming Lesotho’s next Prime Minister. With then Prime Minister Majoro on the ropes, Kabi, backed by a coterie of hawks in the All Basotho Convention (ABC) party, was itching to take over the country’s biggest job. At one point, it appeared […]