Mpiti Mopeli News Today

Lesotho authorities must launch a credible investigation into the killing of journalist Ralikonelo lsquo;Leqhashasha rsquo; Joki and hold those responsible to account, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Monday.

MASERU – THEY came for him twice. And during the two attacks, they shot and killed three of his relatives thinking they had got their man. During that whole ordeal, Litumeliso Toi, a Seakhi famo musician popularly known as Makhotsa, somehow survived. On April 13, the police say, his brother Leboneng Toi arrived home from […]

MASERU – Glue, petrol, crystal methamphetamine, cocaine, Methcathinone (CAT) nicknamed “tsaka-tsaka,” marijuana and alcohol. Lesotho is in a substance bind and youth are most affected. These drugs, especially crystal meth and cocaine are said to be easily available mostly in Khubetsoana, Lecoop and Sea Point. Nepo Toae, a carpenter popularly known as Socket, knows all […]

MASERU – A police officer who stalked and killed his girlfriend and her new lover in Cocobe, Quthing district, on Sunday morning has handed over himself to the police. Police spokesman, Senior Superintendent Mpiti Mopeli, told thepost yesterday that the suspect is yet to appear before court on two counts of murder. S/Supt Mopeli said […]

China has reportedly established around 102 overseas police stations in at least 53 nations around the world that activists fear could be used to track and harass dissidents as part of the Chinese Communist Partys so-called crackdown on corruption

MASERU – LEHLOHONOLO Selate, who is suspected to have defrauded the government of M50 million in 2021, was rearrested immediately after he was granted bail on Monday. The police said Selate was wanted in connection with yet another fraud case where he is alleged to have defrauded a local bank of M300 000. He is […]

MASERU-CLEMENT Makhethe, the Qoaling businessman gunned down at his gate last Friday, had been stalked by crime since 2018. His widow, ’Maitumeleng Makhethe, told thepost yesterday that his death could have been avoided if the police had solved the previous crimes perpetrated against the couple, their family and businesses. Makhethe said none of the previous […]

MASERU – JUST before dusk last Sunday, two men walked into the yard of Lehlohonolo Moqomisa’s home in Ha-Mabekenyane in the Berea district. They asked the children playing in the yard where their father, Moqomisa, was. The children directed them to the back of the house where their father was sitting with a visiting friend. […]

MASERU – ANTI-CORRUPTION investigators raided three principal secretaries allegedly implicated in a M100 million road repair scandal. Yesterday afternoon’s raids are part of a wider investigation into payments made by the Disaster Management Authority (DMA) to several companies that won tenders to repair roads damaged by heavy rains earlier this year.  The Directorate on Corruption […]

MASERU – A Mafeteng-based Imam says Home Affairs Minister Lebona Lephema’s remarks about a mosque in Maseru West have shaken the Muslim community. Lephema said the mosque in Maseru West was a national security risk because one can see the State House from its roof. The minister appeared to question how the mosque was approved […]