Teboho Molapo
MASERU — The Premier League will tomorrow release match fixtures for the new season, giving teams only a week to prepare for their clashes on the opening day of the season next Saturday.
The start of the Vodacom Premier League has been delayed by three weeks because of elections for a new Premier League committee [...]
Staff reporter
MASERU — Judges and other judicial officers must be well paid so that they are not corrupted, a senior High Court judge says.
Justice Semapo Peete said this in a paper he presented at a workshop for jurists by the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) from July 28-30.
His paper was titled “Reviewing Mechanism to Prevent [...]
Teboho Molapo
MASERU — History beckons for Lesotho’s Under 20 side when they take on their South African counterparts in a Confederation of African Football (CAF) Under 20 Championship match at Setsoto Stadium in Maseru this afternoon.
Fresh from a 2-0 first leg win over their more illustrious opponents this afternoon’s tie could be the biggest on [...]
Lerato Matheka
MASERU — Budding poet Pitso Ramakhula has released a 10-track debut album titled Ntsoana Tsatsi (Our origins).
The album, which is a clarion call for Basotho to go back to their roots, was released on August 1, a significant day on the Basotho cultural calendar.
The date marks the beginning of the Basotho planting and harvesting [...]
Bongiwe Zihlangu
MASERU — Are they happy with the status quo or do they want change?
That is the question the people of Hololo 2, Mpharane 61 and Sebapala 66 constituencies will have to answer when they cast their ballots in the by-elections on May 22.
It’s a crucial question that Lesotho’s political parties want answered as that [...]
Teboho Molapo
MASERU — Alliance Insurance has set conditions for the M80 000 incentive it has promised to any of its three sponsored teams that wins the 2009/10 Premiership title.
At a press conference on March 11, Alliance announced one of three of their partners namely Lioli, Matlama and LCS stand to win the windfall if they [...]
Council chairman blames poor structures, indiscipline
Staff Reporter
MASERU — The chairperson of the National University of Lesotho (NUL) Council says the country’s highest institution of learning is in a big mess because of poor governance structures and indiscipline among management, lecturers and students.
NUL has over the years been hurtling from crisis to crisis, highlighted by student [...]
Bongiwe Zihlangu
MASERU — There was mayhem in parliament on Friday when opposition lawmakers walked out in protest against the second tabling of the controversial Land Bill 2009.
The opposition MPs said it was premature to discuss the Bill because it was still “fraught with errors”.
Led by All Basotho Convention (ABC) leader Thomas Thabane, the opposition decided [...]
Staff Reporter
MASERU — Professor Adelani Ogunrinade’s three-year reign as the National University of Lesotho (NUL) vice-chancellor might have ended on Monday but those in the corridors of power at the varsity say the man put on a spirited fight to save his job.
As his suspension was coming closer to an end on February 2, Ogunrinade [...]
Caswell Tlali
MASERU — Angry National University of Lesotho (NUL) students last week beat up the president of their Students Representative Council (SRC) for allegedly failing to organise enough buses to take them to the intervarsity games which were being held in Swaziland.
Students said university authorities had given the SRC enough money to hire 10 buses [...]
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