Selimo Thabane News Today

The 87 men arrested after a bloody battle between alleged illegal miners and police and private security guards in October 2021 have appeared in court again. 



Late Nights @ Expo takes place at Dubai Millennium Amphitheatre and Jubilee Stage

MASERU - In a stunning turn of events, Thato Sibolla, the key witness and also victim in the Maesaiah Thabane’s murder trial, has landed a top diplomatic post

Local is lekker – Leka LOCAL is lekker! The old Boer adage truly rings true when it comes to local fusion artiste Lekaka Brendan aka Leka. Signed to Harambee Global Records, Leka fuses cultural music with trap to come up with a new sound he refers to as mangae or trap-ngae. Trap-ngae may sound like a mouthful but the sound itself is easy on the ear laced with easy-flowing rap derived from Sesotho folklore. It has strong elements of traditional music and modern rap, one of the hallmarks of the...

Theres an impoverished mountainous district of Lesotho where many illegal mineworkers live with their families. But women often wait there for their husbands for months and sometimes years. Many of the illegal mineworkers work in clandestine and abandoned mines in South Africa, run by criminal gangs. Some left to provide for their families, some died trying. In this second episode of our podcast series set in Lesotho, we talk about the fate of the people left behind by those men tasked by their...