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Sho Madjozi celebrated her 31st birthday with an African-themed party that included artists and some of her closest friends and family.

Sho Madjozi celebrated her 31st birthday last night in an African-themed party attended by artists and some close friends and family.

MASERU-When comparing the football of today and yesteryear, Lesotho legend Teele Ntšonyana says the country’s standards have deteriorated. Ntšonyana, a former Likuena striker who plied his trade at the highest level in South Africa, says the quality of players in Lesotho keeps declining because of a lack of succession strategies in local football. Ntšonyana, a […]

MASERU-THE leader of the opposition in parliament, Mathibeli Mokhothu, wants the Speaker to “reconsider” his decision to appoint ’Machabana Lemphane-Letsie as the chairperson of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC). In a letter dated April 24, 2023, Mokhothu told Tlohang Sekhamane that appointing Lemphane-Letsie as chairperson would indicate that the government was determined “to abort the […]

MASERU-Ntsane Mohlomi is known as a writer of reckon – but not in his own home country. The man from Ha-Lekholoane, Litsoetse, in Thaba-Tseka has received recognition in Zimbabwe, some 1 440 kilometres from Lesotho’s borders. One would be lucky to bump into literary works of local writers and Mohlomi is no exception. It was […]

WHEN the obituary for the Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) is eventually written, it will probably read as follows: Here lies a once great party brought to its knees by bitter internal wrangles. Added to its cause of its demise would be a staggering failure by the leadership to manage disputes and plan effectively for […]

  LERIBE– WHEN labour pains began for ’Mabakuena* late last year, her loved ones sensed disaster. The nearest health centre, Khabo Clinic, was 10 kilometres away and the only way to get there was by foot – a two-hour long walk. So, to buy time, the women who were accompanying her to the clinic tied […]

With seven months in power, Lesotho Prime Minister Sam Matekane has been challenged by civil society groups in the mountain kingdom to address outstanding human rights issues inherited from previous regimes, and to enact instruments to protect people's rights.

Many other nationals got no help from their diplomats, says Gift of the Givers. But six South Africans are still believed to be trapped in the war-torn country.

Lesotho: Minister Urges Basotho to Plough Wheat