Bribery scam stirs fresh storm

Staff Reporter
MASERU — Kennedy Lefothane, the man at the centre of the bribery storm in which Natural Resources Minister Monyane Moleleki’s name was allegedly peddled, has been booted out by his consortium.
He told the Sunday Express this week the “majority” in Motete Mining, the consortium that has been fighting for the prospecting rights for Lemphane [...]

Moleleki sucked into bribe scam

Caswell Tlali
 MASERU — A covert plan had allegedly been hatched to squeeze M700 000 out of a mining equipment supplier to supposedly grease the palms of Natural Resources Minister Monyane Moleleki, the Sunday Express can reveal.
Local businessman Kennedy Lefothane is suspected to be at the centre of the alleged plan that would have seen Marsh [...]

Former Lefate star turns new page

Khahliso Khama
 MASERU — Afro-pop star Stlofa has come clean about a life and career nearly destroyed by drug and alcohol abuse.
The 32-year old former Lefate singer, born Molibeli Mokake, says he was a slave to the bottle and marijuana for the past 15 years.
A talented artist, Stlofa has enjoyed both fame and notoriety in almost [...]

Opposition sees red over Zuma

Bongiwe Zihlangu
 MASERU — Lesotho’s opposition parties yesterday accused the government of blocking them from meeting President Jacob Zuma to raise concerns over the border crisis during his two-day state visit.
Zuma was in Lesotho on a state visit which saw the South African president addressing a joint sitting of parliament on Thursday.
The visit has however left [...]

Farmer sues police for wrongful arrest

Nat Molomo
 MASERU — A livestock farmer from Mants’onyane in Thaba-Tseka district is suing the police for M300 000 for assault, torture and unlawful arrest.
Motsamai Maseru, 27, claims the police inserted a gun into his behind and assaulted him while in detention at the Marakabei police station in 2008.
Maseru wants the commissioner of police to pay [...]

Another secret LCD meeting

 
 
 
 
Caswell Tlali
MASERU — Political games don’t come this dirty.
First Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) youth league’s secretary general Selibe Mochoboroane writes to the party structures alleging that some nine MPs and youth members held a secret meeting on July 17 to discuss toppling the party’s leadership.
He then repeats the same allegations in a newspaper interview [...]

ABC, LWP break alliance

Bongiwe Zihlangu

 
MASERU — It was a tempestuous marriage.
The marriage had been on the rocks for months.
But on Thursday, the three-year marriage ended in acrimonious divorce.
The opposition All Basotho Convention (ABC) party sensationally walked out of the alliance leaving the junior partner in the coalition, the Lesotho Workers Party (LWP), licking its wounds.
ABC leader Thomas Thabane [...]

Gospel singer Nthloki accused of fraud

Khahliso Khama

 
MASERU — Popular gospel musician Francis Nthloki has been accused to mishandling contributions from poor community support groups that are part of the poverty alleviation project he founded seven years ago.
Nthloki started the Letlole la Boitjaro project in 2003 to raise funds to help community groups that were involved in the fight against HIV [...]

‘Get a foreign judge’

Staff Reporter

 
MASERU — A group of MKM creditors and depositors has asked the chief justice to appoint a foreign judge to hear the troubled company’s case after Justice David Lyons became the sixth judge to drop out of the case.
The group, which calls itself the Investors Trust, includes companies owed by MKM and individuals whose [...]

Harvest blacklists gospel artists

Khahliso Khama

 
MASERU — Harvest FM has banned two local gospel artists from its airwaves for refusing to pretend to be singing during a show held by the radio station last month.
The fallout came about after the two artists, Ngateng Molupe and Salem Nikelo, performed at Harvest FM’s seventh anniversary show at ‘Manthabiseng Convention Centre on [...]