Bongiwe Zihlangu
MASERU — Basotho National Party (BNP) leader Metsing Lekhanya says he is ready to relinquish the reins of the party when his term of office ends in 2012.
Lekhanya, 72, spoke to the Sunday Express on Friday as speculation mounted he wanted to cling on at the helm of the BNP after he outsmarted a [...]
Ntsebeng Motsoeli
MASERU — Basotho studying medicine abroad are reluctant to return home because of the measly salaries doctors get at state healthcare institutions.
Junior doctors in Lesotho net M7 000 a month, a figure medical students say is a pittance.
In South Africa — where most Basotho study medicine — graduates and interns take home an average [...]
Shakeman Mugari
JOHANNESBURG — The year was 1994 and South Africa’s democracy, barely a few months old, was in grave danger.
Apartheid had ended after 46 brutal years of segregation and repression to usher a new era of democracy but the country was tottering on the brink of a civil war.
Bloody clashes between whites and blacks had [...]
Caswell Tlali
MASERU — Maseru police last week arrested and allegedly assaulted villagers suspected of stoning and burning to death a woman believed to be mentally ill in Ha-Lekhobanyane near Mazenod.
The police allegedly rounded up several villagers, including a pregnant woman, whom they severely assaulted in a bid to force them to name the people who [...]
Bongiwe Zihlangu
MASERU — The South African government has rejected demands by a group of Free State farmers to erect an electric fence along the country’s border with Lesotho.
The South African government and the farmers’ group, Free State Agriculture (FSA), last week reached an out-of-court settlement which saw most of the farmers’ demands receiving approval from [...]
‘Mantoetse Maama
MASERU — A 23-year-old man from Mahobong in Leribe was beaten to death by angry villagers last week.
Police spokesperson Masupha Masupha said the deceased had allegedly tried to rape a woman in the village.
“The woman screamed and then the villagers were able to come to her rescue before he raped her,” Masupha said.
“The villagers [...]
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 [...]
Teboho Molapo
MASERU — Mabuthile Lebopo is arguably among the finest athletes ever produced in Lesotho.
Over the past 10 years, the diminutive Lebopo, who stands at a mere 1.5 metres, has won numerous athletics awards.
Just two months ago Lebopo won the prestigious Two Oceans marathon in Cape Town that saw the best of southern African athletes [...]
By Pascalinah Kabi
MASERU — Lesotho will play Malawi in a friendly international in Lilongwe next month.
The match will be part of celebrations to mark Malawi’s independence from British colonial rule on July 6.
However, Lesotho will be represented by the Under-20 national side with only three senior players likely to be included in the team.
The Lesotho [...]
Khahliso Khama
MASERU — DJ Qness, the man behind the popular house hit Pfugama Unamate, failed to make it for a show at The Joint on Friday.
But even if the Johannesburg-based DJ had made it to Maseru, he would probably have performed before 10 people.
The show, put simply, was the mother of all flops.
The organisers of [...]
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