Month : December 2010

MASERU — The Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) youth committee’s former chairman, Rorisang Mokoena (pictured right) takes no prisoners. He can be abrasive when things...

Caswell Tlali MASERU — It’s Christmas time and the good times have come for supermarkets as they compete to make the most of the spending...

Ntsebeng Motsoeli MASERU — The man who killed ‘Mataata Thahanyane, wife of Chief Gerard Thahanyane of Ha-Thahanyane in Mafeteng, was on Tuesday sentenced to 37...

Andrew Hammond THE latest WikiLeaks release of about 250 000 classified US state department documents has been variously characterised as the “September 11 of world...

A FEW weeks from now our troubled National University of Lesotho (NUL) will have a new vice chancellor. Professor Sharon Siverts, an American academic who...

AN unprecedented wave of despondency is sweeping through the global corridors of power since the whistleblower website Wikileaks decided to publish classified diplomatic cables of...

Anthony Butler WE have reached that time of year when children’s thoughts turn to a jolly, bearded and seriously overweight man with questionable fashion sense...

Noisemaker 1 Coup Plotters There was a time when coups were the in-thing in African politics. Any time you didn’t like the guy at the...

The US government is doing all it can to silence the Wikileaks organisation, including starving it of funds by getting PayPal, Visa, and Mastercard to...

Staff Reporter MASERU — Standard Bank has been named the best bank in Lesotho by The Banker, a leading journal of the global banking and...