Comment
Amnesty will take country forward
THE decision by Prime Minister PakalithaMosisili to declare a general amnesty for alleged mutineers and other soldiers implicated in murder and treason is perhaps the right thing to do
Wake up call
PRESIDENT Jacob Zuma was in Maseru last week to discuss the Southern African Customs Union (Sacu) with the Lesotho government. The specific details of what Zuma discussed with Prime Minister
Likuena at crossroads
Lesotho’s 2016 COSAFA Castle Cup campaign begins on Sunday and it comes with Likuena at another crossroads. It has been an underwhelming, stop-start year for Likuena and it is impossible
Allow candid debate on succession issue
THE Democratic Congress (DC) will next Saturday hold an emergency meeting in Maseru to tackle the issue of factionalism within the party. Factionalism has become toxic for the party
Say no to merchants of violence
WE note with utter dismay the violence that erupted at a Democratic Congress (DC) youth meeting in Maseru last weekend. Violence in any form should have no place in a
Save the babies
ELSEWHERE in this edition we carry a story on the alarming rise in the number of babies that are dying at health care facilities. The Public Health Director Dr ’Nyane
HIV fight needs cultural shift
TUCKED somewhere in the inside pages of local newspapers was a story about Lesotho’s HIV prevalence rate increasing from 23 to 25 percent. In another time such a story would