Khahliso Khama
MASERU — Close to 20 local models on Friday gathered for a protest against an events management company they had been made to believe had snubbed them in favour of South African models for Lesotho’s biggest cultural festival.
But the protest did not happen.
And it emerged the co-ordinator of the protest, Limakatso Makutle, could have [...]
Lerato Matheka
MASERU — Four-time African Melody Festival winners Mohapeloa Singers have once against asked that they don’t go through auditions to compete in the highest category of this year’s edition.
Mohapeloa Singers were last year booted out of the festival after they refused to attend auditions on the basis that they were the defending champions.
The Choral [...]
Khahliso Khama
MASERU – Stlofa on Friday cheered up close to a thousand inmates at Maseru Central Prison with an unforgettable performance alongside gospel musician Majara.
The show was dedicated to Women’s Month, but it was held for the male prisoners because “men are also affected by women’s issues”.
Stlofa said he was planning to hold another show [...]
Lerato Matheka
MASERU — First it was the Miss Lesotho Companies crown.
Then came the prestigious Miss Vodacom PC FM title.
After conquering the local beauty sector for the past two years, Karabelo Mokoallo is now eyeing an international crown.
Karabelo, 22, is one of the 110 beauties who will fight it out for the Miss Globe International crown [...]
Lerato Matheka
MASERU — The Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, through its Health Education Division, is giving Basotho youth a platform to showcase their acting skills through a film to be shot next month called Tšasa.
According to one of its executive producers, Silas Monyatsi (known from Kau la poho), the film is targeting teenagers and [...]
Head injuries (mild, moderate and severe) are common in Lesotho especially at the end of each month.
The causes due to trauma range from accidental falls during sports, assaults, road traffic accidents to occupational hazards such as heavy objects falling on the head at work especially in the factories.
We all know the typical story of someone [...]
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 [...]
Khahliso Khama
MASERU — Local clergyman and Moafrica FM presenter, Ben Mosala, last week released his first solo gospel album.
The 12-track album is titled Ntate Lerato la hao (The love of God).
Reverend Mosala, popularly known as Reverendo, told Xpress People that the album is targeted at youths and is meant to give them hope in times [...]
Ntsebeng Motsoeli
MASERU — The disciplinary hearing against a former Queen Elizabeth II hospital nurse accused of operating an unlicensed clinic and stealing from a patient has been postponed to August 27.
The first hearing had been postponed to August 5.
The Nursing Council of Lesotho (NCL) is also charging Joalane Khoarai with administering expired vaccines on children.
Operators [...]
By Lerato Matheka
MASERU — Revellers thronged Meloding Club on Friday night.
They waited for Ba2cada.
He never came.
Dallas T, another draw card didn’t even play.
But the people partied until the wee hours of Saturday.
That’s pretty much what happened at Econet Telecom Lesotho Morija Arts and Culture Festival readiness show held at Meloding on Friday.
The event was organised [...]
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