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We need a paradigm shift I once had an interesting conversation with a neurosurgeon about the process of operating on a human brain. In case you might be wondering what a neurosurgeon does, it is a doctor that has a specialty on operating the human brain. Some people refer to them as brain surgeons. Google tells us that neurosurgery is the discipline that focuses on the diagnoses and treatment of disorders in the brain, spinal cord and peripheral nerves and their supporting vasculature. But I w...

Thabane too old to lead ABC election campaign: Mapesela Thabane too old to lead ABC election campaign: Mapesela but the party’s NEC labels minister a “delinquent” over his comments.   Pascalinah Kabi OUTSPOKEN All Basotho Convention (ABC) legislator, Tefo Mapesela, has laughed off the party’s decision to have party leader Thomas Thabane lead its 2022 election campaign. Mr Mapesela said the decision, which was communicated to all party structures by ABC secretary general Lebohang ...

MASERU-“IF wishes were horses, beggars would ride,” says an English idiom. For a local illustration look at Montoeli Masoetsa whose wish for Prime Minister Moeketsi Majoro’s ouster came to naught on Monday. The All Basotho Convention (ABC) spokesperson was cocksure that Majoro would be history by the end of the executive committee meeting on Monday. “Nothing new will be added to the previous meeting’s agenda. The main item on the agenda is Dr Majoro’s issue and whatever will be deci...

Majoro dodges bullet and shelve plans to recall him Pascalinah Kabi PRIME Minister Moeketsi Majoro has dodged a bullet after his All Basotho Convention (ABC)’s national executive committee (NEC) resolved to shelve the issue of recalling him and concentrate on re-uniting the party. The decision was made at the NEC’s meeting at Khali Hotel in Maseru this week.  Fireworks had been expected at the meeting after NEC members had exchanged blows at an earlier heated 8 February 2020 meeting over d...

Majoro must go: ABC MP Majoro must go: ABC MP ‘Marafaele Mohloboli THE ruling All Basotho Convention (ABC)’s national executive committee (NEC) will meet again tomorrow to discuss the contentious issue of Prime Minister Moeketsi Majoro’s removal from office. Tomorrow’s crunch meeting follows the first meeting on 8 February 2021 which was inconclusive as the divided NEC failed to come up with a single definitive position on the issue. After the meeting, two factions led by erstwhil...

Vendors get M500 subsidy each MASERU-The government on Tuesday distributed M500 each to over 5 500 Maseru street vendors to help them cope during the lockdown. Each registered vendor received the funds through his M-pesa and Ecocash mobile money apps. The money was initially set to be distributed under the Thomas Thabane-led government in April. The Moeketsi Majoro-led coalition government imposed a fresh lockdown on January following a spike in Covid deaths countrywide. The lockdown triggered ...

Fresh threat to governing coalition Share Mohalenyane Phakela THE All Basotho Convention (ABC) says Deputy Prime Minister Mathibeli Mokhothu, who leads its main Democratic Congress (DC) coalition partner, should step down from his post if he is charged with human trafficking. The ABC position announced by its secretary-general, Lebohang Hlaele, is the latest indication of growing rifts between the two anchor parties of the current governing coalition which took over government in May 2020. Mr H...