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Climate-smart agriculture boosts food security in vulnerable communities Climate-smart agriculture boosts food security in vulnerable communities Silence Charumbira / Limpho Sello MATHOLANG Bereng, a widowed mother of two from Makoabating, Mafeteng has freed herself from the clutches of poverty by participating in a drought alleviation project in her district. Dubbed ‘Improving Adaptive Capacity of Vulnerable and Food Security Populations in Lesotho (IACoV)’, the initiative is a four-year project launched last October and is expected to end in 2024. The project is being executed by ...

Tributes pour in for Cardinal Khoarai MASERU-CARDINAL Sebastian Koto Khoarai, 91, the first Mosotho to attain the position, died last Saturday in Mazenod after serving the Catholic Church for 65 years. The church has not revealed the cause of death except saying he was sick and had to be admitted to a hospital for a while. Reverend Francis Makhetha of the Mofumahali oa Maloti, Ketane, in the Mohale’s Hoek diocese, worked closely with the cardinal. He described Cardinal Khoarai as a man of God who “was a strong bishop who started the Mohale’s Hoek diocese”. Reverend Makhetha says the C...

Judges berated MASERU-THE Court of Appeal last week failed to hear a case in which Commissioner Holomo Molibeli was appealing against a ruling by a High Court judge because there was no written judgment. Lance Sergeant ’Mamothebe Motseki, who is the treasurer of the Lesotho Police Staff Association (Leposa), had asked Justice Tšeliso Monaphathi to stop Commissioner Molibeli from firing her. Justice Monaphathi ruled in favour of L/Sgt Motseki but only gave a verbal order without writing any reasons supporting his decision. The matter could not proceed last week because there was no written ...

The ugliest town in Lesotho Muckraker has never cared much about insults. She has been called a foul-mouthed rural girl. They were right and duly thanked for the compliment. The innovative ones have described her as a sex-starved spinster. They were wrong because Muckraker is satiated. The only insult that will tear Muckraker’s heart is if you say she is as ugly as Maputsoe. Now that will get her tucking her dress into her undies and bouncing like Ali. That is because Maputsoe is truly an ugly thing. It’s the shabbiest town in Lesotho. It would be a lie to call Maputsoe the armpit of Leso...

MEC treasurer defects to LCD MASERU-Movement for Economic Change (MEC) treasurer, Makhetha Thaele, has defected to the Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) party. Thaele, a famous businessman in Mafeteng, said he was irked by the party’s decision not to take a stand against the “M5 000 monthly salary increment dubbed petrol allowances” despite public objections. “I am leaving the party because of its negligence of responsibility by not condemning the Members of Parliament’s M5 000 fuel allowances,” Thaele said. He also complained that the party’s deputy leader, Tšepang Tšita-M...