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TWO months ago, the Lesotho Defence Force (LDF) arrested 74 people, mostly youths aged from 15 to 34 and detained them at Makoanyane Military Barracks.The youths were arrested in an army operation against gangs who have turned the lives of people in

’Marafaele MohloboliTWO months have passed since the Democratic Congress (DC) and the All Basotho Convention formed a coalition government. This after ABC legislators forced their leader and former Prime Minister Thomas Thabane to step down on 19 May

 NATIONAL Security Service (NSS) director general Pheello Ralenkoane’s contract expires at the end of the month. The 60-year-old has been at the helm of the spy agency since June 2017.Mr Ralenkoane, who is a member of Communications, Science and

LAW and Justice Principal Secretary, Retired Colonel Tanki Mothae (TM) has been in government since his return to Lesotho from an eight-year stint with the Southern African Development Community (SADC).He joined SADC in November 2006 as director of t

 THE Lesotho National Development Corporation (LNDC) has launched new business financing packages to aid the growth of locally-owned private businesses in the country.The Lesotho Times’ (LT) Business Reporter, Bereng Mpaki, this week sat down wi

Floor crossing negates democracy and must be banned – analysts Floor crossing negates democracy and must be banned – analysts Staff Reporters LESGISLATORS Mokherane Tsatsanyane (Stadium Area constituency) and Mothepu Mahapa (Tele) have again jumped ship, this time ditching the opposition Alliance of Democrats (AD) for Deputy Prime Minister Mathibeli Mokhothu’s Democratic Congress (DC). Were it not for the destabilising effects on government stability and service delivery to the long...