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Source : Climate Change Advocacy for Lesotho On World TB Day, as the world focuses on combating one of the oldest and deadliest diseases known to humanity, it’s essential to recognize the intersecting factors exacerbating its spread. In Lesotho, a small landlocked country surrounded by South Africa, tuberculosis (TB) has reached alarming proportions. With 661…

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 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 20

THREE Lesotho police officers and two ordinary Basotho were arrested in Wepener, South Africa, while following up leads on stolen cattle. They were arrested on Thursday night but were released the following day after intervention by the government of Lesotho. They were travelling in a Honda Fit and were pulled over by the South African […]

They say this is despite police raids on illegal mining by police. 



IF you are driving in Lesotho, brace yourself for a fresh driver’s licence test. That is the plan the government wants to put in place: to re-test all drivers. It says all drivers must undergo “proper education” on how to drive in a bid to reduce fatalities on the roads. Last week, the Department of […]

FORMER Basotho National Party (BNP) leader, Thesele ‘Maseribane, is plotting a sensational political come-back which has triggered a vicious power struggle in the party. This is according to the current BNP leader, Machesetsa Mofomobe, who has accused Maseribane of brewing trouble in the party in a bid to topple him. The factional battle in the […]

THE Basotho Action Party (BAP) says it has filled vacancies that were created by the mass resignations that rocked the party in the past two months. The new appointees are Ralitapole Letsoela, Teboho Lehloenya, Mothea Mpharoane, Makoala Marake and Mothepu Monku who are now members of the party’s working committee. Lepolesa Makutoane, who has been […]

“YOU love to look earnest and inform the world that it’s the ‘duty of responsible business men to be strictly moral as an example to the community.’ In fact you’re so earnest about morality, old Georgie, that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.” Sinclair Lewis (Babbitt, p. 69, 1922) Africa […]

Lerato Seleteng-Kose studies the unique plants that live in these cold, remote parts of southern Africa. Lerato Seleteng-Kose studies the unique plants that live in these cold, remote parts of southern Africa.

Also on Wednesday, three undocumented foreign nationals aged between 18 and 33 years were arrested at Nhlaniki village.