THIS past week, the spotlight was on water, sanitation and climate change at the continental level due to the holding of the African Ministers’ Council on Water (AMCOW) General Assembly in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania...
Category - Editorial
Sunday Express
Information key to saving ex-miners’ lives
IN this edition, we run a story in which the Mineworkers Development Agency (MDA) has rung alarm bells over the high number of occupation-related illnesses and fatalities among Basotho formerly working in South...
PM’s chance to save nation
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) this week holds a crucial summit whose outcome could make or break our nation. The meeting takes place in Botswana and top of the agenda is Lesotho’s instability...
Paradigm shift needed for Lesotho
LESOTHO is feeling first hand English physicist and mathematician Sir Isaac Newton’s third law which states that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Put simply, it means that whenever an...
NAC return: Time to roll up sleeves
THE re-establishment of the National AIDS Commission (NAC) is a welcome development amid spiralling HIV/AIDS infection and prevalence rates. As reported in this edition, the commission was relaunched on Thursday...
Lesotho must evolve or perish
AS reported elsewhere in this edition, Lesotho has slumped on the Global Competitiveness Index (GCI) — from 107 to 113 out of 140 countries. The GCI is the world’s most comprehensive assessment of national...
Entrepreneurship the way to go
AS reported elsewhere in this edition, the 2015 edition of the Bacha Entrepreneurship Project ended with three youth-owned businesses walking away with M500 000 start-up capital which they will split among...
Education: More quality needed
THE arrival of Botho University (BU) on the academic scene, as reported in this edition, is a welcome development that will be lauded by all and sundry. It offers another local alternative to Basotho who have...
New tack need in HIV/AIDS fight
THE return of the fight against HIV/AIDS on government’s agenda is certainly welcome news. As reported elsewhere in this edition, King Letsie III made a clarion call for more to be done to nip the pandemic in the...
Innovation needs to be fostered
INNOVATION is key, so the saying goes, and nowhere is it more needed than in the mountain Kingdom of Lesotho which is grappling with various infrastructure and economic challenges. In the much-needed transition...
