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THUSO Mosabala, who is a Sustainability Coordinator at Storm Mountain Diamonds (SMD), says they recognise the importance of engaging and working in collaboration with communities in which they operate. “Therefore, we continue to play a meaningful role in mine community development, guided by the company’s Community Investment Strategy (CIS) Policy,” he said. Mosabala said they […]

Advocates Shaun Abrahams and Motene Rafoneke this week filed a fresh application in the High Court to withdraw from prosecuting the case of Lieutenant General Tlali Kamoli and other soldiers. The move comes a week after the two filed an application to withdraw from a case where some police officers are being charged with the […]

THE High Court has ruled that the warrant to seize and search Machesetsa Mofomobe’s phones violated his right to privacy. Delivered this week, the seminal judgment also declared section 26(2) of the National Security Services Act unconstitutional. The section allows a minister in charge of state security to issue a warrant authorising the National Security […]

A Mafeteng-based activist for the opposition Democratic Congress (DC), Refiloe Makatsa, was shot dead last Sunday in a bizarre argument over parking at his gate. Makatsa was coming home at night following the launch of his music album when he found a police officers and others blocking his way to his home. He allegedly demanded […]

A Qacha’s Nek man who had just been released from prison was killed by a mob after he stabbed two women during a quarrel. The incident happened last Saturday in Qacha’s Nek Waterfall area. Mosa Mokhali, 34, was released last month after spending four years in jail for stabbing his wife. Yet instead of learning […]

A WOMAN who consulted a “prophet” to exorcise a “demon” she believed was troubling her is now battling for her life at Motebang Hospital in Leribe after the exercise went awry. Ntsoaki Kasai has been bedridden for a month undergoing surgery after she suffered extensive burns when the South African prophet boiled muti and covered […]

Employment and Labour Minister Thulas Nxesi and Lesotho’s Foreign Affairs and

Here is an indisputable historical fact. Basotho were the first people in human history to mine diamonds. That is according to a 1904 research by Professor Zet Makhado who was the first black vice-chancellor of the National University of Science and Technology (NUST). The NUST, which was based in Morija, was the first university in […]

The Socialist Revolutionaries (SR) says it is not giving up onits fight to reverse the M5 000 fuel allowances for MPs. The party’s deputy leader, Tlohelang Aumane, told thepost that the Sam Matekane-led government had squandered a great chance to reverse the allowance. “The government had the chance to correct the mistake of allowances, but […]

THE disclosure by Police Minister Lebona Lephema that 213 people were murdered in the last five months alone is yet another vivid reminder that the government is losing its battle against crime. Lephema told Senators that since January this year, 101 people were stabbed to death, 81 were shot dead while 31 were killed in […]