CBL must share blame

I READ with shock an article in a local weekly saying the Central Bank of Lesotho (CBL) denies any liability towards the monies lost by investors in the MKM disaster.
I find it surprising that the central bank today claims that MKM traded under the Societies Act and as such was outside the CBL’s regulatory space.
This [...]

Another day, another administrative bungle

I AM very disappointed at the manner in which the National University of Lesotho (NUL) has treated us, third-year business education students, with respect to this academic year’s examinations.
Last Friday we went to the examination room at 9am, ready to write as per the final draft of the time-table.
Upon arrival in the examination room, we [...]

Minister must reveal blueprint for Likuena

hy did the minister knowingly give Lefa insufficient money to discharge its mandate for that matter?   
I READ with shock that Sports Minister ‘Mathabiso Lepono has thrown her weight behind the Lesotho Football Association (Lefa)’s decision not to register the national team, Likuena, in international competitions.
The minister’s sudden somersault leaves a lot of questions on [...]

People have the right to know

TOMORROW we mark — not celebrate — World Press Freedom Day under the theme “freedom of information: the right to know”.
Indeed there is nothing to celebrate when 2009 has been recorded as the bloodiest year for media professionals.
At least 68 were killed worldwide in the line of duty.
Sub-Saharan Africa has also seen the highest death [...]

BNP conference: the facts

Ranthomeng Matete

 
MASERU — I read with disappointment the twisted and unscientific reportage by this paper’s Political Editor Bongiwe Zihlangu on an otherwise simple and straightforward matter of the retention of General Metsing Lekhanya as leader of the Basotho National Party (BNP), following the recent first session of the party’s annual general conference

In the April 18 [...]

Leribe Aids clinic: the facts

The following is a response by  Ministry of Health and Social Welfare to the article titled “Leribe Aids clinic faces uncertainty” published in last week’s Sunday Express. The article was originally published in the Globe and Mail newspaper of Canada.
 
MASERU — Leribe Hospital is one of the most accessible health centres in Lesotho.
There are normally [...]

Select acted in clients’ best interests

SELECT Lesotho (Pty) Ltd seeks this opportunity to reply to an article which appeared in the Sunday Express of March 7 2010.
The article unfortunately contained information which was factually incorrect and misleading.
It is important and responsible that Select sets the record straight by bringing to its clients’ attention the correct facts that resulted in the [...]

Revisiting the 1986 coup

Professor Kopano Makoa
MASERU — Barring a few cases for a period spanning roughly three decades between the early 1960s and early 1990s, Africa and its people helplessly swam in a whirlpool — and became victims — of recurrent yet debilitating military coup d’états that ushered in corrupt, predatory and unaccountable governments that looted their countries [...]

Tread carefully on Land Bill

By Tsikoane Peshoane
THE late Tanzanian president Julius Nyerere taught that land was God’s gift to man and should be treated as such.
“All human beings be they children brought up in poor or rich families, or belonging to sinners or saints, or even those whose parents are either slaves or free men, were born to find [...]

Surviving crisis will take efforts of all Basotho

Kelebone Lekunya
TWO weeks ago Finance Minister Timothy Thahane spoke in the National Assembly on the current global financial and economic crisis and its impact on Lesotho’s fragile economy.
Thahane’s frank speech laid out the cards on the table regarding the immense challenges facing our country.
I wish to express my gratitude to the minister for taking the [...]