PORT ELIZABETH — The East London Industrial Development Zone (IDZ) has announced plans to build a R4bn automotive assembly plant. The plant’s facilities will be shared by a number of Asian car companies. This means the Eastern Cape will become an outsourcing destination for the assembly of motor vehicles for South-East Asia, including China, Korea [...]
WASHINGTON — The United States reacted coolly on Wednesday to Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s overture for better ties, saying he should end political arrests and media censorship and honour a power-sharing deal.
Mugabe, long a pariah in the West for his authoritarian rule and economic mismanagement, said on Tuesday he was open to “fresh, friendly and [...]
JOHANNESBURG — The corruption trial of South Africa’s ex-top cop is opening a window into a shady world of criminal kingpins and alleged graft at the highest levels in law enforcement. The explosive trial now under way has riveted South Africans with salacious details of double-dealings, friends turning on each other, and shopping sprees in [...]
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MASERU –– A Bill that will strip chiefs of powers to allocate land under customary law was last Monday tabled in Parliament for the first reading.
The Land Bill 2009 is also meant to “create opportunities” for foreigners to hold and own land in Lesotho.
The Bill, tabled by Local Government and Chieftainship Minister Ponts’o Sekatle, [...]
MASERU — Thabo Michael Letjama was this week confirmed as the new commissioner general of the Lesotho Revenue Authority (LRA).
Letjama, 33, takes over from Dr Charles Jenkins who retired in March.
He becomes the first Mosotho to hold the top post.
Finance Minister Timothy Thahane told a press conference on Thursday that cabinet had approved Letjama’s appointment [...]
MASERU –– Two employees of the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare are facing trial for allegedly defrauding M126 000 from the ministry through a clandestine scheme to pay bogus workers.
Mpolai Mopeli and Nt’saleli Morojele appeared at the Maseru Magistrate’s Court last week.
The prosecution says the two were allegedly siphoning money by paying ghost workers.
The [...]
MASERU — Lesotho’s main opposition All Basotho Convention (ABC) party has given birth to another unwanted baby.
A former strong member of the party says he is planning to form a splinter party because he is disillusioned by the current leadership style.
Paul Masiu, a pastor with Ambassador Church Mission International (ACMI), says the party will be [...]
MASERU — If the Basotho National Party (BNP) were a company it would surely have closed shop by now.
Its political profits are almost non-existent and customers (read voters) are shunning it.
It’s a good thing that it is not a profit-making organisation so its leaders can afford to cling on to what is left of this [...]
MASERU — When Ben Ramahaetsana was fired from Fahhida Cash & Carry on September 20 2005, he was left high and dry because he had not saved any money and had no bank account.
He was dismissed before payday when he had spent the entire M1 000 wage he had received the previous month.
Ramahaetsana faced the [...]
MASERU — Anywhere else a litre of fresh milk sells for under M10, but at Fahhida Cash & Carry it cost 31 workers their jobs.
It all started when Fahhida Cash & Carry managing director Kasim Abdullah discovered empty boxes of Longlife milk stockpiled behind the shop’s shelves.
When he asked who had drunk the milk, no [...]
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