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Lerotholi Polytechnic students who fled the country last week say they will not return home unless the police drop public violence charges levelled against them. The students are wanted in Lesotho to answer charges of malicious damage to property. Sixty-two students skipped the country last Thursday. Twenty-four of them have since returned home. Foreign Affairs […]
MASERU- LIEKETSO, 19, never planned to live in the street or become a sex worker.When she stole her parents’ M200 as a school girl aged 16, she ran away from
Mohalenyane Phakela THE late senior soldiers, Colonel Tefo Hashatsi and Brigadier Bulane Sechele, have been posthumously implicated in the execution of the 30 August 2014 attempted coup against the first government of former Prime Minister Thomas Thabane. They were implicated by the Lesotho Defence Force (LDF)’s Lance Corporal Mokete Halahala. Lance Corporal Halahala was testifying […]
Raffle in the cabinet SOME pseudo political analysts are sweating buckets to decipher why Mr Softie abruptly reshuffled Cabinet last week. Never has a battalion of bearded men devoted so much energy on such a futile task. There is no logic behind the reshuffle. Nor was there any analysis of the competencies of those kicked out or shoved to other ministries. It might have been just the prime minister playing eeny, meeny, miny, moe with the ministers. More like a raffle. Peddling the ideal of some lucid method behind those dismissals and reassignments is like hawking warm water in the bus stop...
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 a fresh court battle by street vendors demanding to be allowed to continue their business or they wo...