THE Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LDC)’s youth league has been in turmoil for the past four years.
Since 2006 the wing has known no peace.
The committee elected in 2006 was booted out in 2008 for allegedly disrespecting the party’s leadership.
Its tenure was short but eventful.
Factionalism, plotting and backstabbing was the league’s staple and there were serious [...]
ONE student was crushed to death and five others were seriously injured when a decrepit building they called a classroom collapsed on them at St Alphonse High School in Masianokeng on Tuesday.
As detailed in our special report in this edition, most of the buildings at the school are so dilapidated that they might carve in [...]
EVEN before President Jacob Zuma arrived here for his two-day state visit that ended on Friday, his agenda was already cut out for him — at least according to public opinion.
Precisely, Basotho expected him to lift the stringent controls that South Africa has put on its borders with Lesotho.
That expectation was not without justification.
Since South [...]
“TENSIONS and alienation creep in when little or grossly inadequate financial resources are allocated to the administration of justice in the government’s budget –and the judiciary is relegated to the position of a ‘mendicant’ (beggar) in order to keep the court system on an even keel.”
Those were the words of Justice Semapo Peete in a [...]
LESOTHO Congress for Democracy (LCD) youth leader Selibe Mochoboroane has alleged a plot is brewing within the ruling party to oust its boss, Prime Pakalitha Mosisili, and his national executive committee.
Mochoboroane has accused a “faction” including nine MPs of hatching the plan during secretive meetings.
He has since written a letter to the LCD leadership warning [...]
IT’S over!
The tempestuous alliance between the All Basotho Convention (ABC) and the Lesotho Workers Party (LWP) has ended.
ABC leader Tom Thabane yesterday confirmed that the marriage is over.
Three short but stormy years is all it took for Lesotho’s biggest opposition alliance to fall apart.
Those who were close to the alliance say it was an acrimonious [...]
THE National Manpower Development Secretariat (NMDS) has embarked on a challenging mission to recover government grants given to thousands of Basotho for their university and tertiary education since 1978.
The department has warned that legal action will be taken against defaulters, some of who might be blacklisted by credit bureaus.
The NMDS, the government department responsible for [...]
IT is almost three years since the Central Bank of Lesotho (CBL) shut down MKM for running a money multiplication scheme and operating a financial business without a licence.
During this time depositors, the very people the CBL’s actions were supposed to protect, have experienced untold suffering as their money remains locked up in MKM.
The CBL [...]
AS our lead story reveals, the ruling Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) has formed a private company to venture into the country’s lucrative diamond mining industry.
Formed in 2008, Nonyana Ntsu Investments is involved in a consortium eyeing Lemphane Diamond, a mine in Butha-Buthe.
LCD spokesperson Mothetjoa Metsing said the company was formed to raise money for [...]
BASOTHO students studying medicine at foreign universities have for the first time revealed why they do not want to return home to take up jobs at government hospitals.
Yet the government every year sends 30 students to study medicine abroad because our country does not have a medical school.
The government spends thousands of taxpayers’ money on [...]
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