IN this edition we carry a story in which the Passport Services Department says it’s in the process of acquiring a biometric system to weed out multiple passport applicants and holders.
A biometric system is an automatic technique used to identify a person based on their fingerprints and iris.
When installed passport applicants will have their fingerprints [...]
Staff Reporter
MASERU — October 2008.
The political star of Monyane Moleleki, the stalwart of the Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) party and the longest serving minister, seemed to be waning.
His political clout was fading.
The political ground was dramatically shifted beneath him.
Or so it seemed.
The LCD youth league leadership which was supposedly aligned to him had just [...]
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 [...]
Ntsebeng Motsoeli
MASERU — The Passport Services Department is in the process of acquiring a biometric system that will weed out people who make multiple passport applications or hold more than one passport.
A biometric system is an automatic technique used to identify a person based on their fingerprints and iris.
Once it is installed in Lesotho, passport [...]
Ntsebeng Motsoeli
MASERU — Police will soon launch a countrywide blitz against motorists who have dodged paying spot fines for traffic offences over the years.
The crackdown will target what the police say are “thousands of motorists” who have either not paid their fines or gave police wrong names and identities to avoid being tracked.
The police say [...]
Tefo Tefo
MASERU — Eighteen Lerotholi Polytechnic students on Friday pleaded with the High Court to order the school to remark the typing course they failed and ultimately saw them failing to graduate yesterday.
These students were pursuing a two-year Diploma in Office Administration and Management.
The final-year students would have graduated yesterday had they not failed the [...]
Lerato Matheka
MASERU — For the second time in the history of the prestigious Miss World beauty pageant, Lesotho will be represented.
Karabelo Mokoallo, 23, will raise the kingdom’s flag at this year’s edition in Sanya, China, on October 30.
Since ‘Makoena Mpinane Lepolesa became the first Mosotho to vie for the Miss World title in 2003, no [...]
Tefo Tefo
MASERU — Fugitive crook Reatile Mochebelele, the former Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP) chief convicted of receiving bribes, is trying to duck jail in Lesotho by seeking political asylum in South Africa.
The Lesotho government wants Mochebelele extradited from South Africa to serve the 10-year prison sentence slapped on him after he was convicted for [...]
Staff Reporter
MASERU — The story of Reatile Mochebelele and Letlafuoa Molapo has been told countless times.
Many reports have recounted how the two, who represented Lesotho in the Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP), fell from grace.
Yet that story has rarely mentioned a little anecdote that exposes how hypocritical the two crooks were.
Way back in 2000, before [...]
Tefo Tefo
MASERU — The Law Society of Lesotho has barred 58 lawyers from practising after they failed to pay their annual subscription fees to the legal fraternity’s regulatory body.
Among the blacklisted legal practitioners are prominent lawyers such as Masupha Klaas, Ernest Mahase, Nketsi Makhera, Pitso Ntsene, Santi Mofoka and Thulo Hoeane.
These lawyers, and all the [...]
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